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Reddit says a few employees had their work accounts hacked via 2FA SMS intercepts, leading to a few systems being compromised and some user data leaking — TL;DR: A hacker broke into a few of Reddit's systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses …
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| New York Times: |
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos will join Stanford as an adjunct professor when he leaves the company on August 17; Facebook does not plan to appoint a successor — SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook revealed on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign ahead of the November midterm elections …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says apps and in-app purchases for macOS and iOS will be removed from its affiliate program on October 1; music, movies, books, and TV will remain — Apple announced in an email to publishers this evening that it is making changes to its iTunes Affiliate Program.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Icon found in iOS 12 beta shows an unreleased iPad with thin bezels, no Home button, or notch — We've been expecting an update to the iPad Pro line for later this year. Rumors suggest that the new version will have no home button, Face ID and thinner bezels, following the design trend introduced by Apple with iPhone X.
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme introduces ads under stories matching news topics that an advertiser wants to target, letting companies automatically “respond” to news — Today, Techmeme is introducing ads that are automatically placed under stories matching news topics that an advertiser wants to target.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws — Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to completely move its infrastructure off Oracle's proprietary database software by the first quarter of 2020 — - Amazon has been moving off Oracle for several years and has plans to complete the transition next year, according to people familiar with the matter.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A federal jury in California orders Apple to pay $145.1M in damages to Canadian intellectual property company WiLan for infringing on two wireless patents — According to a report from Reuters this evening, a federal jury in California has found Apple guilty of infringing on two patents held …
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| Reuters: |
DoJ has secured arrests of several Ukrainian members of Carbanak group charged with allegedly stealing payment card and other data from US businesses — (Reuters) - Three Ukrainians associated with the hacking group FIN7 have been arrested in Europe in connection with hacks …
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Tweets: @fireeye, @emilycompagno, and @k_sec
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Facebook makes changes to its APIs, Twitter announces Tweets and Retweets will no longer automatically cross-post to Facebook — You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook . Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Spotify has removed some episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” for violating policies around hate speech, but the podcast is still available on the service — The music streaming service has been the target of public outrage for carrying Jones's show.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins charging businesses for message replies after 24 hours, launches display ads globally for web and Facebook that open to WhatsApp conversations — Today WhatsApp launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product and the only way it currently makes money directly from its app.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @dseetharaman
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab raises $1B from investors including OppenheimerFunds and Lightspeed, just over a month after raising $1B from Toyota — - OppenheimerFunds, Ping An Capital, Lightspeed joined round — Funding comes after Grab secured $1 billion from Toyota
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TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Financial Times, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, and Recode. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Earnings statements from Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft show they are as strong as ever; the forces arrayed against them lack substantial impact — You may have heard that the tech giants are on their heels. — Over the last two years, lawmakers and the public around …
Tweets: @puiwingtam and @rasmus_kleis
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
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