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Hackers breach Dallas warning system, repeatedly sounding all of the city's 156 emergency sirens — Officials in Dallas said the city's warning system was hacked late on Friday night, disrupting the city when all 156 of its emergency sirens sounded into the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Months after failing to sell NSA hacking tools, The Shadow Brokers hacking group publicly releases the alleged exploits — The Shadow Brokers, the mysterious group linked to exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, released a large catalog of files Saturday that give further insight …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
A look at professional hackathon competitors who subsist on winnings from hackathon events held by corporations like IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft — Peter Ma looked around his San Francisco condo and realized he'd won everything in it. His flat-screen TV, home theater system, 3D printers … | Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Super-voting shares in Uber held by Kalanick and his allies mean the board has little influence over who fills CEO role — The rise of super-voting shares in Silicon Valley has given founders the ultimate job security. — As the calamities amass at Uber, many people—including me—have called for new leadership.
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US Department of Labor says in court that it found “systemic” pay disparities against women at Google; Google disputes findings, says gov't provided no data — Allegations of possible employment violations emerge at court hearing as part of lawsuit to compel company, a federal contractor, to provide compensation data
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| Beth Elderkin / Gizmodo: |
LiveJournal updates terms of service to conform with Russian law, which limits political and pro-LGBTQ talk, after relocating servers from US to Russia in Dec. — LiveJournal, a blog community that's hosted a lot of science fiction authors and fans (including George RR Martin) …
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| Violet Blue / Engadget: |
Cancellation of FCC's ISP privacy rules drives Virtual Private Network adoption, but VPNs can have privacy issues of their own — If you're most people, you just found out about the FCC's internet privacy rules by way of their untimely demise. Thanks to the FCC's new chief, Congress …
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Inside venture capital market in Q1 2017: number of global equity funding rounds increased by 11.9% compared to Q4 2016 but was roughly flat year-over-year — The first quarter of 2017 was a period of transition for the global venture capital ecosystem. — There are signs that the slight downturn … | Selena Larson / CNNMoney: |
IRS says hackers accessed tax info of up to 100K people through a student financial aid tool; info can be used to file fraudulent tax returns to steal refunds — A hacker filed my taxes to steal my refund — Hackers accessed the data of up to 100,000 people through a tool that helps students get financial aid.
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| Liz Stinson / Wired: |
Projection mapping startup Lightform teases a device that can use a normal projector to project images onto irregular surfaces — Technology wants to disappear. In computing's early days, the machines swallowed entire rooms. Today, we wear them on our wrists.
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WikiLeaks: After Russian-made Carberp financial malware was leaked in 2013, CIA borrowed elements of the malware for deployment on Windows systems — The CIA's hacking operations allegedly borrowed elements from the Carberp financial malware when the code was leaked in 2013| Tali Tsipori / Globes Online: |
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