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T-Mobile says hackers stole data including names, emails, and encrypted passwords of about 2M customers; researchers say password encryption may be weak — T-Mobile disclosed an “incident" in which hackers accessed “some” customers' personal information—but no financial data or passwords.
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| Dan Tynan / The Guardian: |
Amazon confirms “FC Ambassador” program with at least 16 fulfillment center employees actively responding to tweets that criticize working conditions — Army of fulfillment center employees jump to company's defense online when it faces a barrage of bad press
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked email: representatives of the top US tech companies are meeting in SF today to discuss their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections — Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday …
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| Jacqueline Howard / CNN: |
Study: IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to amplify online debates about vaccines, often linking messages around vaccines to racial or class disparities — - Russian trolls and Twitter bots amplified online vaccine debates between 2014 and 2017, a new study suggests
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New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, Fortune, Firstpost, Engadget, Washington Post, Office of Media Relations, BuzzFeed News, Newser, Gizmodo, STAT, Forbes, and Mashable
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| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Rental platform Sonder, which leases, furnishes, and manages its own properties to standardize experience, raises $85M Series C, bringing total raised to $135M — If you thought hotels had a lot of soft brands, wait until you see what's emerging in the vacation rental sector.| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
NYT article linking Facebook use to hate crimes in Germany was deservedly and widely criticized, but no access to Facebook data makes further research difficult — On Tuesday, The New York Times' investigation of a study into how Facebook promoted anti-refugee violence in Germany galvanized discussion …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Recode: |
Airbnb sues New York City over the law, passed in July, that requires it to share hosts' names and addresses with city's enforcement agency on a monthly basis — NYC estimates as many as two-thirds of Airbnb listings there are illegal. — Airbnb is taking New York City to court.| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Bungalow, a San Francisco-based startup that vets and matches roommates looking for a place to rent, raises $14M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — If you're moving to a new city, finding a place to live is only half the battle. There's also the challenge of finding roommates you click …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook says it is testing a “things in common” label to highlight connections between non-friends who commented on brand or publisher Pages posts — Facebook wants more people to discover things they have in common with the other 2 billion people on its social network.| CNBC: |
Instagram is testing a Facebook-like opt-in feature to group student users by college communities, with access to class-based lists — - Instagram is starting to test a college community feature that would help current students find other students through class-based lists.| Reuters: |
The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond issued over a blockchain; the bond will be worth $73M and managed by Commonwealth Bank of Australia — SYDNEY (Reuters) - The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a A$100 million …
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Fortune, World Bank, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Bitcoin Magazine, ZDNet, The Next Web, CCN, CommBank, CoinDesk, Coingeek, Cointelegraph, CoinSpeaker, and Bitsonline
| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
Fomo3D, a controversial gambling game on Ethereum blockchain, pays out its first jackpot, worth about $3M — ‘Fomo3D’ is a controversial and popular Ethereum application, and the lottery's winner may have clogged the blockchain itself to win. — The most popular application for Ethereum right …
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