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Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Twitter says around 130 accounts were affected in Wednesday's hack, and the attackers gained control of and sent tweets from a subset of those accounts — - “We believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident," Twitter said Thursday.
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| New York Times: |
A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels — Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times. What might have been a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.
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| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based “no log” VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet — Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, no! Logging VPN!' — BIO EMAIL TWITTER
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| Delian Asparouhov / Operators & Delian's Ramblings: |
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy” — OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate — Hundreds of advertisers have paused spending on the social network due to concerns about hate speech, divisive content| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Some experts agree that TikTok may pose a threat to the US national security because of China, but blocking the app would be too drastic a measure — Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure.| Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: |
Trump campaign urges supporters to sign a petition to ban TikTok, saying TikTok has been caught “red handed by monitoring what is on your phone's Clipboard” — - Ads are targeting supporters in battleground election states — Teens on TikTok signed up to Trump rally with no plans to go| Dave Furness / eSellerCafe: |
Amazon warns third party sellers it may separate Fulfillment by Amazon operations in UK from its EU network starting January 1 — Unsurprising for some but surely a shock for others today as Amazon has announced that due to Brexit on the 1st January 2021 the UK's FBA operations will be separated from the rest of Europe.| Toby Helm / The Guardian: |
Sources: UK told Huawei that geopolitics played a part in its 5G ban and gave the impression the decision could be revisited if Trump fails to win a second term — ‘Geopolitical’ factors were behind the move, the company was told, with hints that the decision could be reversed in future| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic — What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic? — SAN FRANCISCO — On May 5 …
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