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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
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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Sources: Kalanick and CSO Joe Sullivan ordered $100K ransom to be paid; Uber tracked the hackers, pushed them to sign NDAs, disguised the payment as bug bounty — SAN FRANCISCO — In November 2016, Uber executives faced an expensive — and risky — decision.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
New York attorney general launches investigation of Uber's $100,000 hack cover-up — The revelation that Uber concealed a major 2016 data breach affecting 57 million users and paid hackers to destroy the evidence is yet another PR nightmare from Uber's darkest era, but it's also a major problem …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
| TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| 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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| ProPublica: |
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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| Bret Kinsella / Voicebot: |
Redesigned YouTube app returns to Amazon Echo Show after being pulled in September, with videos playing in what looks like a simple web wrapper — 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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| Lily Cusack / Reuters: |
EU agrees to abolish geoblocking restrictions on some goods on e-commerce sites by end of 2018; proposal excludes copyrighted content like streaming services — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has agreed a plan obliging online retailers operating in the bloc to make electrical goods …
| 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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| 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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