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Department of Justice indicts three Russians, including two intelligence agency employees, and a Canadian in connection with 2014 Yahoo breach — Two members of a Russian intelligence agency “protected, directed, facilitated, and paid” hackers to break into Yahoo's systems in 2014 …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
FBI says Yahoo hack likely began with a spear phishing email to a “semi-privileged” Yahoo employee — Unwitting sysadmin or other employee was conned out of credentials, FBI theorizes. — SAN FRANCISCO—The indictment unsealed Wednesday by US authorities against two agents … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Dunn & Bradstreet 52GB database exposed, containing 33M+ government and corporate employee records — Exclusive: The database contains more than 33 million records, including government departments and large corporate clients, which gets sold onto marketers.
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| Pete Pachal / Mashable: |
Google debuts Family Link in limited beta for Android, letting parents supervise web access, Gmail account creation, app downloading, more for kids under 13 — Google has its eye on your kids. — The tech giant is opening up its many online services to kids under 13 with a new tool called Family Link …
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| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
GoPro says it will cut 270 jobs, around 17% of its workforce, to achieve profitability, and posts better than expected Q1 guidance; stock up 7%+ — GoPro announced Wednesday that it was cutting 270 jobs to reduce its operating expenses and achieve profitability.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Teen quiz app Wishbone compromised, exposing names of users, 2.2M email addresses, and 287K phone numbers after hackers took contents of unprotected database — A popular social networking app that allows users to create and vote on simple two-choice quizzes lost millions of users records …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
After raising $72M, Sirin Labs sold just under $10M of its $14K+ Solarin secure smartphones, now plans to pivot with $20M in the bank, laying off ~30 people — So much for super-private, high-end phones for the super-rich? Sirin Labs, the startup that makes the Solarin …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD announces it will launch four Ryzen 5 processors on April 11, from 4 core, 8-thread for $169 to 6-core, 12-thread for $249 — As part of our initial Ryzen 7 review, AMD also teased the presence of two more elements to the Ryzen lineup, specifically Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Behind Genius' shift from web annotations to becoming a video-focused media company, after laying off a quarter of its staff last month — Genius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds.| Lisa Baertlein / Reuters: |
McDonald's begins testing mobile ordering app in US ahead of global rollout later this year, tracking customers' location to match with food prep time — McDonald's Corp this month will begin testing its long-awaited U.S. mobile ordering app with the goal of avoiding the kinds of service hiccups …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox, and 55 other tech firms file brief opposing Trump's revised travel ban, but Apple, Google, and Microsoft don't sign, unlike in February — A group of 58 companies, including Lyft, Airbnb, and Dropbox, are protesting the revised travel ban on majority-Muslim countries … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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