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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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[Thread] Twitter says a “coordinated social engineering attack” against employees with access to internal systems and tools allowed hackers to hijack accounts — Our investigation is still ongoing but here's what we know so far:
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Tweets: @jack, @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @senblumenthal, @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, @ericgeller, @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @oneunderscore__, @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @neerajka, @tsunamino, @jamesrbuk, @janaktvu, @carnage4life, @susanthesquark, and @vitalikbuterin
| New York Times: |
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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elliptic.co, Decrypt, Axios, and Newser
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: 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 … | 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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Silicon Valley Business … and Coursera Blog
Tweets: @nickwingfield, @kateclarktweets, @alex, and @annaescher
| 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 Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: US App Store's downloads have surpassed China's for the first time since 2014, seeing a 27.4% YoY growth compared to 2.1% YoY in China — The U.S. App Store's downloads have surpassed China's downloads for the first time since 2014, in a new milestone.
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| Bloomberg: |
Pegatron, the second-largest iPhone assembler, is setting up a local subsidiary in India, joining rivals Foxconn and Wistron — Apple Inc. assembly partner Pegatron Corp. is making preparations for its first plant in India, adding to a large influx of foreign tech investments in the country this year.
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Tweets: @amitmalviya, @economictimes, @c_aashish, @chaonmh, and @rmantri
| 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 … | Dara Khosrowshahi / Uber Newsroom: |
Uber wants to become “actively anti-racist” by doubling Black leadership by 2025, tying exec compensation to diversity metrics, and supporting Black-owned SMBs — With a resurgence of cases, it can feel that our collective attention has moved back to the COVID-19 pandemic and away …
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Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, CNET, Silicon Valley Business …, and CNN
Tweets: @saraashleyo, @tonywest, @uber, @nikolenka, and @dkhos
| 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, Netflix, The Verge, Tubefilter, MediaNama, Micky, Protocol, CCN.com, Silicon Republic, Coinspeaker, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Vox, PYMNTS.com, and The Guardian
Tweets: @reutersbiz, @stevekovach, @mylesudland, @mylesudland, @jank0, @stevekovach, and @jamestitcomb
| CNBC: |
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Netflix Media Center, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, CNN, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @financialxpress, @cnn, @zck, and @pkafka
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Global Alliance for Responsible Media, an industry body of ad companies including Google and Facebook, agrees to evaluate mutual definition of hate speech — The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), an industry body consisting of the world's biggest advertising companies …
Tweets: @ajb_sf and @sarafischer
| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: AirPods and Apple Watch assembler Luxshare buys an iPhone assembly plant from Wistron in Kushan, China for ~$472M — Key Foxconn rival to acquire facility from smaller assembler Wistron for $472m — TAIPEI — Luxshare Precision Industry of China is acquiring its first iPhone assembly plant …
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AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
BlueVoyant, which provides managed security, professional services, and threat intelligence to SMBs, raises $68M Series C, bringing its total raised to $275.5M — New York-based global cybersecurity provider BlueVoyant on Thursday announced that it raised $68 million in a Series B round … Sponsor Posts
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