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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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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
T-Mobile says hackers stole data like names, email addresses, account numbers of about 2M customers; no passwords, credit card or social security numbers stolen — 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's army of fulfillment center employees on Twitter act as “FC ambassadors” to defend against accusations of poor warehouse 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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TechCrunch, The Seattle Times, GeekWire, BBC, Fortune, Business Insider, KnowTechie, and Boing Boing
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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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| NBC News: |
New facial recognition technology at Washington Dulles airport catches man trying to enter the US illegally just three days after the tech started being used — An identification card from the Republic of Congo was found hidden in the man's shoe, officials said.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is being investigated by the DOJ and the SEC over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary — Justice Department, SEC investigation follows similar ones into Microsoft business partners in five other countries
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook hires HP's CMO Antonio Lucio as its CMO, replacing Gary Briggs, who said in January he would step down; Lucio will start on September 4 — Amidst Facebook's biggest branding crisis, It's just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network's external image and cross-promote features inside its apps.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google says it removed 39 YouTube channels, 6 Blogger blogs, and 13 Google+ users, with help from FireEye, tied to Iranian state media misinformation campaign — Google has uncovered a misinformation attack across several of its properties that it has connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting …
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USA Today, Firstpost, Help Net Security, BGR, Washington Post, TechSpot, Tubefilter, The Verge, Associated Press, SlashGear, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Cyberscoop, 9to5Google, Telegraph, Marketing Land, CNET, The Keyword, Washington Post, CNBC, Engadget, and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @maureenktvu
| 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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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Fortune, The Next Web, World Bank, CommBank, CCN, Cointelegraph, Coingeek, CoinDesk, CoinSpeaker, and Bitsonline
| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Microsoft says subscribers to its Xbox Game Pass streaming service spend 20% more time playing games than they did before subscribing and play 40% more games — On its surface, Xbox Game Pass seems like a sort of Netflix for video games. The Microsoft-run service charges players a monthly fee … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
23andMe sent an email to developers saying it will disable its API in two weeks; apps will only be able to use the company's generated reports, not the raw data — 23andMe, which provides DNA testing kids for consumers, is telling outside app developers that they'll no longer have access to the company's raw genomic data.
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Silicon Republic. Tweets: @daraghobrien, @chrissyfarr, @davezatz, and @holdenthepage. Thanks:@chrissyfarr
| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
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