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Slack apologizes, says it has restored access to most of the accounts it has mistakenly blocked while trying to comply with US trade sanctions — Two days ago, we updated our system for applying location information to comply with U.S. trade embargoes and economic sanctions regulations.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook has forfeited trust to the point that people see nefarious motives in any misstep, as some overblown reactions to Spotify and Netflix integrations show — Facebook may or may not have lost its handle on our data. But it has definitely lost its handle on the public narrative—and the benefit of the doubt.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A timeline of Facebook's scandals in 2018 lists 31 entries, showing the company faced a major problem, on average, every 12 days this year — Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn't, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources describe how Amazon's efforts to make Alexa a better communicator through its Alexa Prize competition led to a hack and chats about sex and murder — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Millions of users of Amazon's Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa … | KNSD-TV: |
The San Diego Unified School District says a phishing attack exposed personal info of 500K+ students and staff, including full names, addresses, SSNs, and more — Student records from 2008 up to the present are impacted, district officials told NBC 7 — 500K Student Records Compromised in SDUSD Data Breach
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| Steven Loeb / VatorNews: |
ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online platform for used car dealers to view, bid, and purchase cars wholesale, raises a $93M Series D led by Bain and Bessemer — ACV Auctions will use the funding to continue to expand to new markets across the country — Financial trends and news by Steven Loeb| Washington Post: |
Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to the head of research firm New Knowledge, for spreading disinformation during Alabama Senate race — Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A review of websites of the global top 100 companies by market value finds only 5% have listed a CISO or a CSO in their executive leadership pages — Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers' privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah.
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services — Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too. — Many of Netflix's most popular shows are owned by companies that plan to compete with Netflix.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games is facing lawsuits over Fortnite dance emotes, real-life dance moves used in the game, raising questions about whether dance moves are copyrightable — Epic Games' Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now, but one of its biggest sources of revenue — the ubiquitous dance …
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Sprint to pay $300M in a settlement with New York AG for failing to collect $100M+ in state and local taxes between 2005 and 2014 on some of its wireless plans — Carrier didn't collect proper taxes on some wireless plans for nearly a decade, New York attorney general says
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NY State Attorney General, Gizmodo, Engadget, FierceWireless, USA Today, and Associated Press. Tweets: @bysarahkrouse
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Self-driving car startup Zoox granted the first permit by California to transport passengers in driverless vehicles in the state as part of a pilot program — While more than 60 companies have received permits to test their driverless vehicles in California, Zoox has become the first permitted …
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