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Facebook says that on September 25 it discovered a security issue affecting ~50M users that let hackers steal access tokens and take over user accounts — On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts.
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Facebook: vulnerability was the result of 3 distinct bugs and was introduced in July 2017, attackers could use the account as if they were the account holder — Facebook “discovered a security issue” that the company said allowed attackers to “take over people's accounts.”| Robert Ferris / CNBC: |
Sources: Musk pulled out of a no-guilt SEC settlement at the last minute that barred him from being Tesla chairman for two years, required two new directors — - Elon Musk backed out of a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations of fraud over his comments …
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Slack is actively preparing for an IPO in the first half of 2019, with an expected valuation of more than $7B — Messaging company, recently valued at roughly $7 billion, aims to debut in the first half — Slack Technologies Inc. is actively preparing for an initial public offering … | Aisha Hassan / Quartz: |
Spotify is sending emails to some of its “Premium for Family” account users asking them to prove their home address via GPS data or lose access to the plan — Spotify recently sent an email to some of its “Premium for Family” account users in the US that asked them to confirm their home address through GPS data.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google starts rolling out Wear OS 2.1 with a Google Assistant feed, one-swipe access to Fit, and revamped notifications — A better foundation for future watches — Today, Google will begin rolling out a software update for Wear OS smartwatches. I've been using this new version for about a week …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify confirms test where it sent emails to some of its Premium for Family users asking them to prove their home address via GPS or lose access to the plan — Another fintech startup has made the leap into publicly traded company: Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lending platform for small …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Google CEO Sundar Pichai has agreed to testify before the US House Judiciary Committee in November — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has agreed to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in November, a senior Republican said Friday.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Compound, the Coinbase and Andreessen Horowitz funded startup, launches its money market protocol for shorting cryptocurrencies or lending them to earn interest — Think Ethereum and other crypto coins are overvalued? Now you can make money when their prices fall via Compound …
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Steve Ballmer's USAFacts unveils Voter Center, an online resource showing what positions Congress members take publicly and compares them with government data — Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's nonprofit group USAFacts today debuted a new Voter Center, an online resource that shows …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Appeals court: Apple didn't infringe on University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent; court throws out $234M in damages, makes $272M more in levied fines unlikely — A federal appeals court has ruled in Apple's favor in a patent dispute with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Pymetrics, which uses a combination of neuroscience and AI to create games that companies use to evaluate candidates they are recruiting, raises $40M Series B — Pymetrics today announced it has raised $40 million to expand its work using a combination of neuroscience and artificial intelligence …
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
AWS rolls out new EC2 high memory instances for in-memory databases like SAP HANA, with 6, 9, and 12 TB memory, plans instances with 18 TB and 24 TB for 2019 — Amazon Web Services Inc. today offered some revved-up cloud computing instances aimed at customers running resource-intensive “in-memory” databases such as SAP SE's HANA.
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