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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.
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| The Economic Times: |
Flipkart raises $1.4B from Tencent, eBay, and Microsoft at $11.6B valuation, acquires eBay India — India's largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has announced a $1.4 billion fundraise from new investors Tencent, eBay and Microsoft along with existing investors like Tiger Global, Naspers Group, Accel Partners and DST Global.
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Minecraft is adding a new marketplace with its own currency this spring, where creators can monetize their original content — Microsoft Corp. is adding a new marketplace — and a brand new currency — within the video-game Minecraft, opening up the opportunity for businesses to sell …
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| Greg Otto / Cyberscoop: |
Months after failing to sell NSA hacking tools, The Shadow Brokers hacking group 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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| Hilary Osborne / The Guardian: |
UK payday lender Wonga says personal data of up to 270K customers may have been stolen in a data breach — Personal details from hundreds of thousands of accounts may have been illegally accessed, admits payday lender — More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
A look at professional hackathon competitors who subsist on winnings from hackathon events held by corporations like IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft — Peter Ma looked around his San Francisco condo and realized he'd won everything in it. His flat-screen TV, home theater system, 3D printers … | Beth Elderkin / Gizmodo: |
LiveJournal updates terms of service to conform with Russian law, which limits political and pro-LGBTQ talk, after relocating servers from US to Russia in Dec. — LiveJournal, a blog community that's hosted a lot of science fiction authors and fans (including George RR Martin) …
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| Violet Blue / Engadget: |
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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| Economist: |
Shenzhen, home to companies like Huawei and DJI, challenges the “copycat China” myth as it becomes a global hub of innovation in hardware and manufacturing — ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on …
Tweets: @janchip and @kimmaicutler
| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Volkswagen invests $180M in Chinese AI startup Mobvoi's Series D, to create a 50:50 joint venture with a voice operated rear-view mirror as an initial product — In a further sign of China's technological advancement, Volkswagen Group China, a subsidiary of German automotive giant Volkswagen Group … | Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Super-voting shares in Uber held by Kalanick and his allies mean the board has little influence 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.| Selena Larson / CNNMoney: |
IRS says hackers accessed tax info of up to 100K people through a student financial aid tool; 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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