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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Alibaba smashes its Singles Day record once again as sales hit $25.4B, a 39% increase over last year's sales total — Alibaba has set another Single's Day record after the e-commerce giant sold over $25 billion of product on the Chinese biggest online shopping date.

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Google Online Security Blog:

Google and UCB study: from March 2016 to March 2017, 788K credentials were stolen via keyloggers, 12M credentials via phishing, and 3.3B via 3rd-party breaches — Posted by Kurt Thomas, Anti-Abuse Research; Angelika Moscicki, Account Security — Account takeover, or ‘hijacking’ …

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Vulnerability present in many now-patched antivirus products including Malwarebytes allowed malware to leave quarantine and gain full system control — New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. — Antivirus programs, in many cases, make us safer on the Internet.

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Wall Street Journal:

At a congressional hearing, the interim Equifax CEO said he's not sure if the company is encrypting consumer data stored on its computers — Interim chief should have asked his staff ‘the day he took over,’ analyst says — Two months after Equifax Inc. EFX -.20% reported …

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Jonathan Albright / Berkman Klein Center Collection:

Analysis: propaganda memes from Russia's Internet Research Agency were more impactful on Instagram than Twitter due to reposting apps, Facebook's ad targeting — The last couple of weeks have brought us the first new major revelations about the reach and scope of the IRA media influence campaign.

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Kevin Roose / New York Times:

How Ford is working to build a Level 4 autonomous vehicle by 2021 with help from Argo AI, who is creating software for its vehicles — Its very name was synonymous with the 20th-century economy. Now it's trying to catch up with Silicon Valley on self-driving cars. Related Article

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Davey Alba / BuzzFeed:

Statements from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Uber on whether NDA-bound employees can publicly speak out about workplace harassment or assault — BuzzFeed News asked major tech companies if they'd pursue legal action against NDA-bound employees who speak out about workplace harassment or assault.

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Pixel and Nexus devices won't get KRACK patch until December, which shouldn't matter much since Android doesn't rely on WPA2 for security — Android never relied on WPA2 for security, so breaking it shouldn't matter much. — In October, security researchers discovered a major vulnerability in a Wi-Fi's WPA2 security called “KRACK.”

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Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum:

Embodied Intelligence, which is developing tech for letting humans teach robots new skills using AI and VR, comes out of stealth with $7M in seed funding — Depending on who you ask, robotic grasping has been solved for a while now. That is, the act of physically grasping an object …

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Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Nintendo plans to make 25M to 30M Switch consoles during the next fiscal year which begins April 2018 — Nintendo plans to make 25 million to 30 million Switch game consoles next year — TOKYO— Nintendo Co. NTDOY -2.38% plans to pick up the production pace for its hit Switch …

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Tweets: @jfest, @mochi_wsj, and @zhugeex

Bloomberg:

Leaked Lyft investor document projects the service will command about a third of US ride hailing market by the end of the year, see losses of about $600M — Projections see Lyft sales rise, losses of $600 million — Fidelity, another Uber backer, may join Alphabet in new round

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @quantian1, @mhbergen, @ericnewcomer, and @caseynewton

Richard Waters / Financial Times:

Profile of Broadcom CEO Hock Tan as he tries to acquire Qualcomm for $130B — Hock Tan was feeling sensitive. As the most acquisitive executive in the chip industry, it was probably inevitable that his rapid-fire spate of deals — capped this week by a $130bn run at struggling Qualcomm — would bring charges of opportunism.

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