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Twitter provides an overview about what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, its actions, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels — Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times. What might have been a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Twitter says around 130 accounts were affected in Wednesday's hack, and the attackers gained control of and sent tweets from a subset of those accounts — - “We believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident," Twitter said Thursday.
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| Tae Kim / Bloomberg: |
The hack on Twitter provides more ammunition for critics who question Twitter's engineering prowess, poor management practices, and anemic financial performance — The breach revealed Twitter's engineering prowess and management practices as subpar. Hedge fund Elliott Management can't be happy about its investment.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FTC is considering deposing top Facebook executives, including Zuckerberg and Sandberg, as part of its anti-trust probe — Facebook officials have prepared for potential depositions — The Federal Trade Commission is considering taking sworn testimony from Facebook Inc. Chief …
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Tweets: @jason_kint, @dnvolz, @benremaly, @lutherlowe, and @matthewstoller
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Coursera, the online learning startup founded by Andrew Ng, raises $130M Series F led by NEA, at a valuation of around $2.5B — Another education technology company is flourishing amid the coronavirus pandemic, as people stuck at home flock to online classes.
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Tweets: @alex, @conciseankur, @kateclarktweets, @annaescher, and @nickwingfield
| New York Times: |
Personal assistant arrested in the NYC killing of Fahim Saleh, founder of prank call app PrankDial and motorcycle ride-sharing apps in Bangladesh and Nigeria — Mr. Saleh, 33, was found dismembered and decapitated inside his Manhattan apartment. — The former personal assistant …
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Tweets: @gimbakakanda, @mikenizza, @imela_elias, @lookner, @stephaniebusari, @simshagaya, and @asemota
| Julia Metcalf / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub took a 21TB snapshot of all active public repositories on February 2 and deposited it in the Arctic Code Vault on July 8 using 186 reels of archival film — At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon settles with Brian Hall, the former AWS VP it had sued for allegedly violating the non-compete clause after taking a VP job with Google Cloud — Amazon has reached a confidential legal settlement with Brian Hall, a former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing … | Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Lyft, which gave some drivers free PPE, launches a PPE store for drivers; it's unlikely it can give away PPE regularly without conceding drivers are employees — The company can't easily give away materials without conceding that its drivers are employees — Lyft has launched a marketplace … | Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
How tech companies place favorable newspaper op-eds, purportedly from small business owners, think tanks, and academics, without disclosing their involvement — Why you should probably read opinion pieces supporting the tech giants with skepticism. — 7 hr
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC unanimously approves rules that let carriers block calls from “bad-actor” phone companies that profit from robocalls — Safe harbor lets phone companies block all calls from “bad-actor” telecoms. — “Bad-actor” phone companies that profit from robocalls could be blocked … | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
The FBI is using Sabre, the biggest of three firms that store a majority of the world's travel info, to spy on suspects' movements through sealed court orders — American border patrol already has significant surveillance powers and collects vast amounts of data on who is flying into and out of the country.
Tweets: @culturejedi, @iblametom, @iblametom, @iblametom, @iblametom, @forbes, and @kimzetter
| Will Rinehart / Wired: |
Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data — He wants social media companies to pay you for the data you produce. But loopholes abound, it's too expensive, and other plans like it have failed.
Tweets: @willrinehart, @jrhuddles, @adalovelaceinst, @backchnnl, @jason_kint, and @bill_tribble
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M — - Analysts counted Netflix among the safer bets during stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and the company showed substantial subscriber growth last quarter.
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Deadline, Bloomberg, Netflix Media Center, Netflix, The Verge, Protocol, CCN.com, MediaNama, Tubefilter, Micky, Silicon Republic, Coinspeaker, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @cnn, @lucas_shaw, @financialxpress, @reutersbiz, @stevekovach, @mylesudland, @mylesudland, @jank0, @stevekovach, @zck, @jamestitcomb, and @pkafka
| Colin Lecher / The Markup: |
Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them — In at least one case, that same company is now getting pandemic-relatedcontracts — In 2010, California hired the consulting firm Deloitte … Sponsor Posts
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