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Coinbase is reimbursing losses caused by Wednesday's Ethereum flash crash, when prices briefly dropped from $320 to as low as $0.10 on the GDAX exchange — Earlier this week, GDAX, the digital currency exchange run by Coinbase, experienced a flash crash in its USD - Ethereum market.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Waymo court filing shows former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick knew Anthony Levandowski had taken Alphabet files in March 2016 — Uber has also been ordered to produce a key document in the case. — Alphabet is asking a judge to find Uber in contempt for failing to notify the court …
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Cyberattack on UK parliament email accounts forces security team to disable remote access; investigation is ongoing — House of Commons spokesperson says it is investigating after unauthorised attempts were made to access user accounts — Parliament has been hit by a “sustained and determined” …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Binary Capital delayed its plans to close on upwards of $75M in new capital in wake of Justin Caldbeck situation — Binary Capital yesterday delayed its plans to close on upwards of $75 million in new capital for its second fund. This comes after co-founding partner Justin Caldbeck took … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
A behind-the-scenes look at how Google's Project Zero, known for its hard-nosed vulnerability disclosure policy, got started and has evolved over time — Brash. Controversial. A guard against rising digital threats around the globe. Google's Project Zero is securing the Internet on its own terms.Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher gains full system-wide access on Windows 10 S, despite the operating system's strict security measures, by exploiting Microsoft Word macros — We enlisted a leading security researcher to test if Microsoft's newest, locked down version of Windows 10 is protected against all …
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
CNN to invest $40M in its in-house startup Great Big Story over the next two years, turning it into 24-hour streaming service, distributed on Sling TV, others — Startup to shift from social distribution to 24-hour channel — Great Big Story said to be valued at as much as $250 million| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Snapchat's new Snap Map broadcasts your exact location to your friends every time you open the app, unless you turn on “Ghost Mode” — This detail about Snap Map is frightening — Earlier this week, Snapchat introduced Snap Map, an opt-in function that allows you to share your location with your friends on a map.| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online — Unreleased 64-bit ARM versions, Server editions among dumped data — Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eBay will now match Amazon's, Walmart's and others' prices on over 50,000 items — As Amazon and Walmart continue their battle to become the world's largest retailer, another longtime rival in the e-commerce business, eBay, is now stepping up its game as well.
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Walmart tells some tech providers not to use Amazon Web Services if they want Walmart's business — Wal-Mart is telling some technology companies that if they want its business, they can't run applications for the retailer on Amazon's leading cloud-computing service, Amazon Web Services.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Anthem agrees to pay $115M to settle class action lawsuit over 2015 data breach in which hackers gained access to personal info of nearly 80M Americans — Anthem Inc. agreed to pay $115 million in a deal to end a court battle over the 2015 data breach where hackers gained access to sensitive records for nearly 80 million Americans.
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