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Credit agency Equifax says breach affecting up to 143M US consumers found 7/29; sensitive data exposed included DOB, SSN, and 209K credit card numbers — Equifax Inc., which supplies credit information and other information services, said Thursday that a cybersecurity incident …
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| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Three Equifax execs including CFO sold shares worth ~$1.8M days after breach found but before public disclosure; no filings list transactions as scheduled sales — Trio didn't know about the intrusion when selling, firm says — Shares tumbled in late trading after company disclosed breach
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever, and was handled poorly by the company — Consumer's most sensitve data is now in the open and will remain so for years to come. — It's a sad reality in 2017 …
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| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Facebook partner to launch Open Neural Network Exchange format, letting AI developers switch between frameworks easily — Facebook and Microsoft announced ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange this morning in respective blog posts. The Exchange makes it easier …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: fingerprint scanner will be omitted from “iPhone 8” after production issues, which set back early production by a month and may create supply shortages — The widely anticipated 10th-anniversary iPhone, with an expected base price near $1,000, hit a speed bump or two related to its OLED display
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Experts say Facebook's reticence to reveal information about advertisers, as other media forums must, threatens the democratic process — Sen. Mark Warner suggested that Facebook should disclose the same information about political ads that radio and TV stations are required to.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Canada-based Kik plans $125M ICO, says it won't allow investors from its home country to participate due to weak guidance from Ontario Securities Commission — Messaging app plans to raise $125 million total in offering — Kik CEO said ‘weak guidance’ from OSC led to the decision
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Filecoin blockchain data storage network completes ICO by raising a record $257M including $52M presale, surpassing the $232M raised by Tezos — Blockchain data storage network Filecoin has officially completed its initial coin offering (ICO), raising more than $257 million over a month of activity.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Indiegogo says it will compel campaigns to provide status of product's development and update backers monthly — Indiegogo is making a pair of changes today that are designed to compel crowdfunding campaigns to be clearer with backers about the state of their products.
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Silicon Valley fondly remembers Dogster cofounder Ted Rheingold, who died of cancer at 47 — The last company Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and angel investor Ted Rheingold advised was one that helps an overlooked segment of American consumers improve their credit scores.
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| Pew Research Center: |
Pew 2017 study of news use on social media: 55% of US people aged 50+ get news on social sites, up 10% YoY; Twitter users who get news on site up 15% YoY to 74% — As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based autonomous drone startup Airobotics raises $32.5M Series C from Microsoft Ventures and others to expand into defense and homeland security, more — Airobotics, a startup building autonomous drones for the enterprise sector that do not require humans to get involved in any aspect … Sponsor Posts
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