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T-Mobile says hackers stole data like names, email addresses, account numbers of about 2M customers; no passwords, credit card or social security numbers stolen — T-Mobile disclosed an “incident" in which hackers accessed “some” customers' personal information—but no financial data or passwords.
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked email: representatives of the top US tech companies are meeting in SF today to discuss their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections — Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday …
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Telegraph, CNNMoney, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Hill, Vanity Fair, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Google, Business Insider, CNET, and Cyberscoop
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| Dan Tynan / The Guardian: |
Amazon's army of fulfillment center employees on Twitter act as “FC ambassadors” to defend against accusations of poor warehouse working conditions — Army of fulfillment center employees jump to company's defense online when it faces a barrage of bad press
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CNET, TechCrunch, The Seattle Times, GeekWire, BBC, Mashable, Fortune, KnowTechie, Boing Boing, and Business Insider
Tweets: @choplogik, @byrosenberg, @mattmday, @byrosenberg, @om, @byrosenberg, and @randfish
| Jacqueline Howard / CNN: |
Study: IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to amplify online debates about vaccines, often linking messages around vaccines to racial or class disparities — - Russian trolls and Twitter bots amplified online vaccine debates between 2014 and 2017, a new study suggests
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New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, BBC, Office of Media Relations, Engadget, BuzzFeed News, Firstpost, Gizmodo, STAT, Forbes, and Mashable
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
NYT article linking Facebook use to hate crimes in Germany was deservedly and widely criticized, but no access to Facebook data makes further research difficult — On Tuesday, The New York Times' investigation of a study into how Facebook promoted anti-refugee violence in Germany galvanized discussion …
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| NBC News: |
New facial recognition technology at Washington Dulles airport catches man trying to enter the US illegally just three days after the tech started being used — An identification card from the Republic of Congo was found hidden in the man's shoe, officials said.
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The Next Web, Digital Trends, Fedscoop, CNET, Engadget, TechSpot, U.S. Customs …, PYMNTS.com, The Star Online, Newser, NBC Bay Area, and Fortune
Tweets: @nbcnews and @juliecareynbc
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Bungalow, a San Francisco-based startup that vets and matches roommates looking for a place to rent, raises $14M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — If you're moving to a new city, finding a place to live is only half the battle. There's also the challenge of finding roommates you click …
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Sources: Microsoft is being investigated by the DOJ and the SEC over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary — Justice Department, SEC investigation follows similar ones into Microsoft business partners in five other countries
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook hires HP's CMO Antonio Lucio as its CMO, replacing Gary Briggs, who said in January he would step down; Lucio will start on September 4 — Amidst Facebook's biggest branding crisis, It's just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network's external image and cross-promote features inside its apps.
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Marketing Land, Business Insider, Axios, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @ingridlunden, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Reuters: |
The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond issued over a blockchain; the bond will be worth $73M and managed by Commonwealth Bank of Australia — SYDNEY (Reuters) - The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a A$100 million …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, ZDNet, The Next Web, World Bank, CommBank, CCN, Coingeek, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, CoinSpeaker, and Bitsonline
| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Microsoft says subscribers to its Xbox Game Pass streaming service spend 20% more time playing games than they did before subscribing and play 40% more games — On its surface, Xbox Game Pass seems like a sort of Netflix for video games. The Microsoft-run service charges players a monthly fee … | Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
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