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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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Microsoft Teams gets new features for education users: School Data Sync, OneNote Class Notebooks, education app integration, and assignment management — Microsoft today updated Microsoft Teams with four classroom features “designed to help schools achieve more together.”
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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.
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Attack on UK parliament email system prompts security team to disable remote access; fewer than 1% of 9,000 accounts on the system compromised, says spokesman — Up to 90 email accounts were compromised during the cyber-attack on Parliament on Friday. — Fewer than 1% of the 9,000 users …
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Tweets: @lordrennard, @doublejake, @jamesrbuk, @hocpress, @gcluley, @hocpress, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| 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.| 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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Digital Trends, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Liliputing, ExtremeTech, On MSFT, and Windows Central. Tweets: @howelloneill. Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr says it fixed the ‘Safe Mode’ glitch that hid innocent posts, including LGBTQ+ content — Tumblr this week introduced a “safe mode” for its service, which combines the company's previously available “safe search” functionality with a new filter that would hide “sensitive” content from the site's main Dashboard, using an overlay.
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| 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.
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Tweets: @karenmcgrane, @alsaibie, @martinsfp, and @chaseputrich
| 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 …
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Tweets: @sshawki, @gvteam, @mdudas, @alexstamos, @weschan, @om, @sarahmei, @davemorin, @hunterwalk, @susanthesquark, @roelofbotha, and @gcvp
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Pando, Niniane Wang, TechCrunch, Om Malik, Forbes, The Information, Trae Vassallo, Recode, Gotham Gal, Brenden Mulligan, Silicon Valley Business …, New York Times, StrictlyVC, LinkedIn, RexBlog.com, and Axios
Facebook: Wesley Chan. Tweets: @sarahcuda, @sarahcuda, @ericajoy, @niniane, @aprildunford, @soopa, @mulligan, @saranormous, @caldbeckj, @arlanwashere, and @ellenhuet
| 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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Business Wire, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Fierce Healthcare, NBC News, MedCity News, Gizmodo, and The Register. Thanks:@gregotto
| 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| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Consumer-price index for wireless phone service dropped 13% YoY in April, according to US Labor Department, the largest decline in the history of the category — Impact of brutal price competition is rippling through profits, inflation and antitrust law — Customers are used to cellphone bill shock, but not like this.
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