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The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company — Consumer's most sensitve data is now in the open and will remain so for years to come. — It's a sad reality in 2017 that a data breach …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
House Energy and Commerce Committee, Financial Services Committee, and New York attorney general announce probes into Equifax breach — Meanwhile, New York announces its own investigation. — The U.S. Congress plans to probe a massive data breach at the credit-monitoring service Equifax … | Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 11 GM leak reveals details about new iPhone features including Face ID, animated emoji, 4K at 60fps, possibility of True Tone display, revised AirPods, more — Here we go. We're digging through the iOS 11 GM we received this evening to unpack what we can learn about the D22 'iPhone 8 …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 11 GM leak shows LTE Apple Watch may use same phone number as iPhone and reveals an image of a Watch with red Digital Crown and a face showing signal meter — In continuing news from the Apple Watch GM firmware, we've found several strings references to how cellular plans on Apple Watch work and how users set them up.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FBI is investigating Uber over use of defunct “Hell” program that tracked drivers working for competitors like Lyft — Investigators looking at whether Uber's defunct ‘Hell’ internal program was used to interfere illegally with competitors
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
Virginia State Board of Elections votes to remove touchscreen voting machines before November elections, saying they pose unacceptable digital risks — Virginia's election supervisors on Friday directed counties to ditch touchscreen voting machines before November's elections, saying the devices posed unacceptable digital risks.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon form Mobile Authentication Taskforce to create new open standard and fix security flaws present in current SMS-based 2FA — Two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS and a smartphone provides a heavy dose of additional security for your data …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook is willing to spend $1B through 2018 on original video for its platform, far outpacing its previous outlays on video content — Social-media giant could spend as much as $1 billion to cultivate original shows for its platform — Facebook Inc. FB .65% is loosening … | Sumit Chakraberty / Tech in Asia: |
Indian budget hotel aggregator OYO raises $250M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund, with Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenoaks, and Hero Enterprise participating — Japanese giant SoftBank is keeping its faith in India's budget accommodation provider Oyo, despite its mounting losses and growing competition.| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain Firms Ripple, R3 File Dueling Lawsuits Over Crypto Contract Dispute — Distributed ledger startups Ripple and R3 have become embroiled in a new legal battle, with both startups filing lawsuits related to a contract dispute between the two firms. — Ripple alleged in a complaint … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Volvo acquires assets of car valet startup Luxe, which had raised $75M+ in funding — After a pivot and months of speculation about the future of car valet and concierge startup Luxe, the company has finally found a home. Today, automaker Volvo Cars announced that it is acquiring the startup's platform … | Nectar Gan / South China Morning Post: |
Weibo orders users to verify their real names by September 15 following China's new restrictions on anonymous online conversation — Deadline comes as government seeks to tighten its grip on online speech ahead of next month's Communist Party congress — China's Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo …
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