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Convenience store chain Wawa discloses a data breach across its 700 stores over the past nine months that may have exposed customer and credit card details — The breach may have affected all 700 stores over the past nine months. — If you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Study of 189 facial recognition algorithms shows they misidentify people of color more often than white people, confirming facial recognition tech's racial bias — Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, a landmark federal study released Thursday shows …
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Report: Facebook has tasked a co-author of Windows NT with building an OS from scratch, in order to stop relying on Android for products like Oculus and Portal — Facebook doesn't want its hardware like Oculus and Portal to be at the mercy of Google because they rely on its Android operating system.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google acquires Montreal-based game development house Typhoon Studios as part of its plan to create exclusive content for Stadia — Google's Stadia cloud gaming division has acquired Typhoon Studio, a Montreal-based triple-A game development house. — The move is part of Stadia's plan …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Congress passes the TRACED Act, enabling fines of up to $10K per robocall and requiring carriers to deploy STIR/SHAKEN protocol to identify spoofed numbers — A holiday gift for anyone with a phone — After months of negotiations, Congress approved a landmark bill on Thursday to stop the flood of illegal robocalls.
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| Claire Stapleton / ELLE: |
Claire Stapleton, a Google Walkout organizer, recalls Google execs supporting the activism initially, then slowly pushing her out of the company in retaliation — Claire Stapleton didn't just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics?| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple opens its bug bounty program to security researchers, publishes eligibility criteria, bounty categories, and report and payout guidelines — Apple opens its previously-closed bug bounty program to all security researchers. — Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program today …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
According to a new report from Have I Been Pwned, 170M emails along with usernames and hashed passwords were stolen in the Zynga breach in September — If you're still playing Words with Friends or Draw Something, you should change your password — A September password breach … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
F5 Networks says it will acquire AI-powered fraud prevention platform Shape Security for around $1B in cash — F5 Networks will pay approximately $1 billion to acquire Shape Security, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that sells a fraud prevention platform to banks, airlines, retailers, government agencies, and more.
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| Andrew O'Hara / AppleInsider: |
Apple open sources parts of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit allowing anyone to prototype HomeKit devices — Apple has published an open-source version of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit, allowing more users to experiment with the development of HomeKit accessories.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OnePlus unveils a bug bounty program with rewards from $50-$7,000 open to any security expert and a bug bounty partnership with HackerOne for select researchers — You can earn up to $7,000 for submitting a bug — OnePlus announced its second data breach in two years back in November … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Facebook bans misleading posts, photos, ads, and other content about the 2020 US Census, even if posted by a politician, on Facebook and Instagram — The new rules, announced Thursday, includes those placed by politicians — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook will remove posts …
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| Chris Eggertsen / Billboard: |
Jury finds Cox Communications liable for its customers' piracy of 10,000+ musical works, awards $1B to Sony Music, EMI, Universal, and Warner Music — Cox Communications was found liable for piracy infringement of more than 10,000 musical works by a U.S. District Court jury in Virgina on Thursday …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Ghostery releases Ghostery Midnight, a desktop app that includes an ad blocker, tracker protection and monitoring, and a VPN, for $14 per month — Ghostery, a popular privacy- and security-focused browser extension and mobile browser app, has officially launched for desktop users.
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| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
Docs: SpaceX, others are lobbying FCC to deny Amazon's waiver request for spectrum access for its satellite internet project after Amazon missed 2016 deadline — When Amazon confirmed it was planning to launch 3,236 broadband internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit … Sponsor Posts
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