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August 25, 2018, 6:40 AM

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Javier E. David / CNBC:
In a blog post, Elon Musk says that he has informed the board that he now believes Tesla should stay public and the board indicated that they agree  —  - “Although the majority of shareholders I spoke to said they would remain with Tesla if we went private, the sentiment, in a nutshell, was “please don't do this,” Musk said.
Andrew Martonik / Android Central:
Fixed flaw in the Fortnite Installer on the Galaxy Apps store and Epic's site let any app hijack the game download process to install anything on a user's phone  —  The exact problem we expected to happen, happened.  —  Google has just publicly disclosed that it discovered …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
T-Mobile says hackers stole encrypted passwords of ~2M customers; researchers say passwords may have only been hashed with a weak algorithm that can be cracked  —  T-Mobile disclosed an “incident" in which hackers accessed “some” customers' personal information—but no financial data or passwords.
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET:
House Energy and Commerce Committee says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before it on Wednesday, September 5  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 5, the committee confirmed Friday.  —  “CONFIRMED: Twitter CEO @jack Dorsey …
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
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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