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Facebook accidentally printed messages like “Big Brother is Watching” inside tens of thousands of Oculus Touch controllers, already shipped some to developers — - Facebook said it accidentally included cryptic hidden messages in “tens of thousands” of its Oculus Touch virtual-reality controllers.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
HQ Trivia confirms Scott Rogowsky, its primetime host who had become the de facto face of the company, has left and will be replaced by Matt Richards — Quiz Khalifa aka Host Malone aka Trap Trebek aka HQ Trivia's Scott Rogowsky has been pushed out of the live mobile gaming startup.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DHS warns about a bug in VPN apps from Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Pulse Secure, and F5 Networks, which can give attackers remote access to enterprise networks — Several enterprise virtual private networking apps are vulnerable to a security bug that can allow an attacker to remotely break …
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| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
FCC will begin 37GHz, 39GHz, and 47GHz spectrum auctions for 5G use on Dec. 10, announces the $20.4B Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to connect up to 4M homes — - Sale to begin in December to advance fast network for new uses — White House announcement includes $20 billion for rural areas
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook nominates PayPal exec Peggy Alford to its board, the first African-American woman, and won't nominate Reed Hastings and Erskine Bowles for re-election — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has nominated prominent technology executive Peggy Alford for election to its board.
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia closes up 75.6% on its first day of trading, after raising $196M in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$3.9B — - The largest e-commerce operator in Africa, Jumia Technologies, surged more than 75% on its first day of trading at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.
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Uber files for an IPO, says it had $11.27B in revenue, up 42% YoY, and an EBITDA loss of $1.85B in 2018 — - Uber will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “UBER,” the company said in a filing released publicly on Thursday. — The company posted net income of $997 million in 2018 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dashlane, a popular password manager and identity management startup, raises $30M in debt financing, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — Dashlane, a popular password manager and all-round identity management solution, has raised another $30 million in funding, the company announced today.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Interview with Nancy Pelosi on online privacy, net neutrality, breaking up big tech companies, and policing hate speech on social media platforms — “He's just being a freak.” — Enough people use Twitter to get their information that politicians have to be there, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Researcher finds Facebook is testing bringing Messenger back into its main app, possibly as a first step toward integrating all of its messaging services — Facebook might be putting Messenger back into its main social media app. The feature is currently in testing and was spotted …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Hackers claim they stole ~4K unique personnel records from sites related to the FBI National Academy Association, claim to have data from 1K+ more hacked sites — A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing …
Tweets: @jake_hanrahan and @zackwhittaker
| Andrea Peterson / Ars Technica: |
SS7, a mobile protocol that can be hacked to track users or intercept calls, remains flawed after decades due to the FCC's reliance on telecom industry advice — The regulatory back door big telecom uses to weaken security regulation. … The outages hit in the summer of 1991.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Disney says Disney+ will support 4K and HDR video, all content on Disney+ can be downloaded and viewed offline, and that the app will be on Roku, PS4, and more — In the fall of 2017 Disney announced plans for a subscription streaming service of its own that could compete with the likes of Netflix.
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