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Hackers breach Dallas warning system, repeatedly sounding all of the city's 156 emergency sirens — Officials in Dallas said the city's warning system was hacked late on Friday night, disrupting the city when all 156 of its emergency sirens sounded into the early hours of Saturday morning.| Greg Otto / Cyberscoop: |
Months after failing to sell NSA hacking tools, hacking group The Shadow Brokers publicly releases the alleged exploits — The Shadow Brokers, the mysterious group linked to exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, released a large catalog of files Saturday that give further insight …
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US Department of Labor says in court that it found “systemic” pay disparities against women at Google; Google disputes findings, says gov't provided no data — Allegations of possible employment violations emerge at court hearing as part of lawsuit to compel company, a federal contractor, to provide compensation data
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| Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Super-voting shares in Uber held by Kalanick and his allies mean the board has little control over who fills CEO role — The rise of super-voting shares in Silicon Valley has given founders the ultimate job security. — As the calamities amass at Uber, many people—including me—have called for new leadership.
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| Jason Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Inside venture capital market in Q1 2017: number of global equity funding rounds increased by 11.9% compared to Q4 2016, but was roughly flat year-over-year — The first quarter of 2017 was a period of transition for the global venture capital ecosystem. — There are signs that the slight downturn … | Liz Stinson / Wired: |
Projection mapping startup Lightform teases a device that can use a normal projector to project images onto irregular surfaces — Technology wants to disappear. In computing's early days, the machines swallowed entire rooms. Today, we wear them on our wrists.
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Cancellation of FCC's ISP privacy rules drives Virtual Private Network adoption, but VPNs can have privacy issues of their own — If you're most people, you just found out about the FCC's internet privacy rules by way of their untimely demise. Thanks to the FCC's new chief, Congress …
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WikiLeaks: After Russian-made Carberp financial malware was leaked in 2013, CIA borrowed elements of the malware for deployment on Windows systems — The CIA's hacking operations allegedly borrowed elements from the Carberp financial malware when the code was leaked in 2013| Selena Larson / CNNMoney: |
IRS says hackers accessed tax info of 100K people through a financial aid tool for students; info can be used to file fraudulent tax returns to steal refunds — A hacker filed my taxes to steal my refund — Hackers accessed the data of up to 100,000 people through a tool that helps students get financial aid.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt to depart in July after 18 years, will be replaced by Greg Peters; chief talent officer Tawni Cranz also leaving — Greg Peters to take over as chief product officer in July; chief talent officer Tawni Cranz is departing| Taylor Wofford / Motherboard: |
Current and former insiders of Something Awful on how forums on the site, which was founded in 1999, presaged current internet culture — I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's something that profound and with that sort of infinite possibilities.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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