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September 27, 2018, 8:50 PM

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Bloomberg:
SEC sues Elon Musk, accusing him of misleading investors when he tweeted that he had funding lined up to take Tesla private; stock drops 11%+ after hours  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a case against Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to a docket entry …
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
SEC seeks to bar Elon Musk from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company if found guilty; Musk calls SEC action unjustified  —  - The SEC complaint alleges that Musk issued “false and misleading” statements and failed to properly notify regulators of material company events.
John Leyden / The Register:
Weaknesses in DEP, Apple's free service for remote enterprise device management, may give attackers access to the network by guessing serial numbers of devices  —  Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle  —  Hackers can blow holes in Apple's managed service technology …
Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg:
Swiss-based Seba has secured ~$104M in funding, dependent on being granted a banking license from Finma, to create a cryptocurrency-focused regulated bank  —  - Seba raises $104 million from private, institutional investors  — Company in talks with Swiss financial regulator since April
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC limits the time local authorities get to review 5G applications to 90 days, caps annual fees to $270 per small cell, unless cities can prove higher costs  —  FCC orders cities and towns to slash permit fees for 5G equipment.  —  The Federal Communications Commission today finalized …
Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog:
Cloudflare launches its own domain registrar called Cloudflare Registrar, promises to never charge anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges  —  “I love my domain registrar.”  Has anyone ever said this?  From before Cloudflare even launched in September 2010 …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Coinbase adds Coinbase Bundle, a new offering that lets users buy a market-weighted sampling of its 5 available cryptocurrencies, for as little as $25  —  Coinbase is shaking things up quite a bit lately and its latest tools are geared toward cryptocurrency traders just getting their toes wet.
David Stringer / Bloomberg:
Unnamed Australian teenager sentenced to eight months probation for breaching Apple's systems; investigators recovered 1TB of sensitive info copied from Apple  —  - Youth found accessing Apple networks addictive, court hears  — Customers' data wasn't compromised by the attacks, Apple says
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Didi Chuxing launches a taxi-hailing service in Osaka, Japan that links passengers with drivers from 10 local taxi companies  —  China's Didi Chuxing is fighting fires at home around passenger safety, but overseas the ride-hailing giant has moved into another new market after its taxi-booking service began operations in Japan.
Kate Clark / TechCrunch:
The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery platform which bought Zagat from Google, raises $30M from Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo  —  WndrCo, the consumer tech investment and holding company founded by longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, has invested $30 million in The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery platform.

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