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Uber fires CSO, says in Oct '16 personal info of 50M riders, 7M drivers, including 600K driver's license numbers, stolen; Uber paid hackers $100K to delete data — Company paid hackers $100,000 to delete info, keep quiet — Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and another exec ousted
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FCC unveils its plan to repeal net neutrality rules, a move that would give ISPs broad powers to determine which websites and online services customers use — Federal regulators unveiled a plan Tuesday that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers can see and use.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
NY AG says the FCC has ignored multiple requests for logs and records amid NY's investigation of the flood of fake net neutrality comments to the federal agency — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman revealed today that his office has been investigating a flood of spam FCC comments …
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Android phones send nearby cell tower address data to Google even when location services are disabled; Google says it will end the practice by end of November — Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven't used any apps …
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Ads for housing that exclude demographics are still being approved by Facebook, a year after a study highlighted the illegal discriminatory practice on Facebook — After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Six students say school sent group of 3,000 to Foxconn for three months of “work experience”, routinely working 11-hour days on iPhone X, breaking overtime law — Apple's main supplier in Asia has been employing students illegally working overtime to assemble the iPhone X …
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| Bret Kinsella / Voicebot: |
YouTube is back on Amazon Echo Show with some minor alterations to its UI, after being pulled from the device in September — YouTube is back on Amazon Echo Show today. This was a mini-controversy back in September when Google removed YouTube access from Echo Show.
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Sources: Apple acquired Vrvana, Canadian augmented reality headset startup, for $30M — As Apple reportedly ramps up work to ship an augmented reality headset in 2020, it has acquired a startup from Montreal, Canada that could help it get there. TechCrunch has learned that Apple has acquired Vrvana … | Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
HPE says its CEO, Meg Whitman, will step down next year and remain on the board; President Antonio Neri will take over as CEO on February 1, 2018 — - President Antonio Neri will take on the role of CEO as of Feb. 1, 2018, and both Whitman and Neri will be on the board.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
CEO of popular app HQ Trivia, Rus Yusupov, repeatedly told reporter that the app's star host, a contractor, could be fired for talking to press, then denied it — Every day, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world fire up their smartphones and log onto HQ, a live trivia app …
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Tweets: @rus, @mikeisaac, @bigmeaninternet, @pjvogt, @seldo, @rachel, and @backlon
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's HomePod, which is delayed and has limited features versus Amazon's Echo, started as a side project and was cancelled and revived several times — The Apple speaker started as a side project, was cancelled and revived several times and can't do as many things as the Echo.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @jyarow, @shiraovide, and @charlesarthur
| Paul Miller / The Verge: |
Google starts contributing to Apple's Swift programming language, submits pull request for adding Fuchsia OS support — Still doesn't help explain why Fuchsia exists — A few days ago, there was a flash-in-the-pan controversy over Google “forking” Apple's open-source programming language Swift.
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