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A look at Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as Uber prepares to go public; source: CEO decided Travis Kalanick isn't welcome on the NYSE balcony for next week's IPO — The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber's past is simply not that far gone.
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Some Git source code repositories, including at least 392 from GitHub, have been wiped and replaced with a ransom demand in a possible coordinated attack — Hacker wipes Git repos and asks for Bitcoin. Gives victims 10 days and threatens to release the code.| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Coinbase says CTO Balaji Srinivasan is leaving; source: Srinivasan was not given enough freedom and had differing visions for the future product roadmap — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is parting ways with its CTO Balaji Srinivasan, who joined the firm as part of one of its largest acquisitions, The Block has learned.| Laura Bliss / CityLab: |
Innisfil, Ontario, which in 2017 decided to subsidize Uber rides in lieu of a public bus system, has been forced to raise fares and cap rides as adoption grows — Innisfil, Ontario, decided to partially subsidize ride-hailing trips rather than pay for a public bus system.
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Jack Dorsey has emerged as a lifestyle guru in Silicon Valley, raising demand for near-infrared saunas, meditation retreats, cryotherapy spas, and fasting tools — The Twitter chief executive is tech's foremost manfluencer, guiding his followers toward optimum cognitive performance. Or, at least, hunger.
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| Forbes: |
A profile of Lemonade, a millenial-friendly discount insurance startup, which has raised $480M in five rounds, the last one at a $2B+ valuation, says source — In the summer of 2017, a Los Angeles man in his mid-20s put on a necklace, blond wig and makeup and made a cellphone video describing …
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| Mike Dudas / The Block: |
Report: Facebook seeks ~$1B from financial firms and e-commerce sites to back its stablecoin as it readies its payments network and rewards system for users — - Facebook is planning to launch a full payments network (rather than just remittances) and in discussions with payment networks Visa …
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| Chris Zacharias: |
A group of YouTube engineers warned IE6 users ten years ago, without permission, that the browser would not be supported, contributing to its demise — The bittersweet consequence of YouTube's incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers link 6 software supply chain attacks, including backdoors in CCleaner and Asus' software update tool, to a group of likely Chinese-speaking hackers — A software supply chain attack represents one of the most insidious forms of hacking. By breaking into a developer's network …
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| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
Amazon Marketplace lets sellers offer lithium-ion batteries and other products that can cause injuries, causing some to ask who is to blame when things go wrong — Nicholas Jones didn't think twice about purchasing a lithium-ion battery from Amazon in 2016.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is taking the same self-assured approach to safety that it has with products, but it is strange to see the company be so proud of cleaning its own mess — Watch enough Facebook product rollouts, and you'll notice a certain consistency. The presentation is always polished … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Vulnerability in Dell's pre-installed SupportAssist utility exposes Dell computers to remote hijacks if attacker can get on the same network with unpatched PC — Another security flaw in a vendor's bloatware apps puts users at risk. — A vulnerability in the Dell SupportAssist utility exposes Dell laptops …
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