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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.
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| 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.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers find flaw allowing hackers to brute force T-Mobile account PINs, likely via T-Mobile's faulty API, after initiating purchase on Apple's online store — Mobile account PINs intended to protect T-Mobile and AT&T customers' accounts were exposed by two security vulnerabilities.
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| 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 …
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
An overview of obstacles Alphabet is facing in its efforts to establish a presence in China in search, smartphones, autonomous cars, and more — BEIJING — Google has faced sharp criticism, including from its own employees, for its efforts to rebuild an internet search presence in China … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
YouTube will roll out the ability to enable non-skippable ads, up to a maximum length of 20 seconds, to all creators in its Partner Program starting next week — You might soon be seeing less of that “skip ad” button over on YouTube. — In a video titled Want to earn more money from ad revenue? … | Jingjing Jiang / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: more than 50% of US teens say they are trying to reduce phone, social media, and video game use; 57% of parents say they restrict children's screen time — 54% of U.S. teens say they spend too much time on their cellphones, and two-thirds of parents express concern over their teen's screen time.
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| Christina Larson / MIT Technology Review: |
China is establishing a digital totalitarian state that minutely tracks its citizens' lives by relying on a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data — Here's how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance. — In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published …
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| Bloomberg: |
Japan is assembling a government-led group, including Uber, Airbus, and 19 others, that aims to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade — - Japan wants to use the technology to ease traffic snarls — Uber already seeking to start air-taxi services in 2023| 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.| 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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| 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 …
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