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August 25, 2018, 2:25 PM

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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.
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.
Reuters:
Chinese province suspends Didi's service after a driver allegedly killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed, allegedly by a driver for the country's largest ride-hailing firm …

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