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May 5, 2019, 1:45 PM

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CNN:

After Facebook bans seven extremists, Trump, in a series of tweets, complains about the ban, retweeting extremists' tweets, and issuing vague threats — New York (CNN)Facebook barred seven users from its services earlier this week, citing its policies against “dangerous individuals and organizations.”

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Kev Needham / Mozilla Add-ons Blog:

Expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to stop working on Friday; Mozilla issued a fix for most desktop users, advises others not to try any workarounds — Updates: — Some users are reporting that they do not have the “hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate - bug-1548973” study active in “about:studies”.

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Tweets: @artemr, @firefox, and @textfiles

Cecilia Kang / New York Times:

Sources: FTC commissioners remain divided along the party lines on whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for Facebook's future privacy violations — The F.T.C. chairman seems to have the votes to approve a settlement. One of the biggest issues has been whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg liable for future violations.

More: Mashable, FutureSin, The Verge, Axios, and Washington Post

Tweets: @profcarroll, @privacyproject, @jason_kint, @iansherr, @matthewstoller, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimes, @profgalloway, @nytimesbusiness, @austinfrerick, @demandprogress, @mayazi, @billmcgev, @privacydigest, and @raju

Shuli Ren / Bloomberg:

Ride-hailing economics are more favorable in Southeast Asia than in US; Uber may have left its best growth prospects behind by ceding market to Grab and Go-Jek — Emerging markets outshine the U.S. in ride-hailing, as the burgeoning success of Go-Jek and Grab shows.

Tweets: @jrichlive, @rmnth, @business, @sub8u, @bopinion, @texastee, @mihirssharma, @clairejiao, and @vpiparsania

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Some Git source code repositories, including at least 392 from GitHub, have been wiped and replaced with a ransom demand in a possible coordinated attack — Hacker wipes Git repos and asks for Bitcoin. Gives victims 10 days and threatens to release the code.

More: Motherboard, GitLab, Information Security …, CryptoGlobe, Neowin, BleepingComputer, and The Register

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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:

Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T hit with class action lawsuits for selling customer location data — The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon selling data.

More: Bloomberg Law. Tweets: @antoniogm, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

An overview of the debate over breaking up big tech and why antitrust might not be the best concept to address most issues people have with big tech companies — There's a pervasive feeling that the tech giants are too powerful ... but they're also really good for consumers.

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @mattyglesias, @ezraklein, @went1955, @recode, @alecstapp, @linamkhan, and @willoremus

Celia Wan / The Block:

Bitfinex is trying to raise $1B via initial exchange offering of LEO tokens to provide liquidity as it seeks access to $850M it says were frozen by governments — Bitfinex will issue an initial exchange offering (IEO) that aims to raise $1 billion, according to an excerpt …

More: CoinDesk, SludgeFeed, NewsBTC, Amy Castor, Modern Consensus, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, AMBCrypto, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, and Messari Crypto

Tweets: @theblock__, @felixsalmon, @coindesk, @icodrops, and @asglidden. Thanks:@dogetoshi

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

What to expect from Microsoft Build 2019: a primary focus on Azure and AI, plus announcements related to Windows 10, Microsoft 365, HoloLens, and GitHub — Microsoft's Build developer conference returns to Seattle, rather than in San Francisco, for the third year in a row next week.

More: Wired, Barron's Online, Computerworld News …, PCMag, CNET, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, ZDNet, and ZDNet

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

A look at Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as Uber prepares to go public; source: CEO decided Travis Kalanick isn't welcome on the NYSE balcony for next week's IPO — The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber's past is simply not that far gone.

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Virginia-based DivvyCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure automation software, raises $19M, says its client base doubled in the past year to 20+ companies — DivvyCloud, an Arlington, Virginia-based company developing a cloud infrastructure automation platform, today announced …

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Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:

Two influential Chinese bloggers say China is considering a ban on Hollywood movies as part of a set of measures to retaliate against Trump's tariffs

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The US stock market briefly surged on April 7 after CNBC, Reuters, and others picked up an erroneous X post that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs

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Alex Hern / The Guardian:

YouGov and Cambridge poll of 25,000+ people in 23 countries finds that UK citizens trust social media platforms less than any other nation surveyed

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Laura Bliss / CityLab:

Innisfil, Ontario, which in 2017 decided to subsidize Uber rides in lieu of a public bus system, has been forced to raise fares and cap rides as adoption grows

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A profile of Lemonade, a millenial-friendly discount insurance startup, which has raised $480M in five rounds, the last one at a $2B+ valuation, says source

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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:

Facebook is taking the same self-assured approach to safety that it has with products, but it is strange to see the company be so proud of cleaning its own mess

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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:

Amazon Marketplace lets sellers offer lithium-ion batteries and other products that can cause injuries, causing some to ask who is to blame when things go wrong

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Frank Chaparro / The Block:

Coinbase says CTO Balaji Srinivasan is leaving; source: Srinivasan was not given enough freedom and had differing visions for the future product roadmap

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Nellie Bowles / New York Times:

Jack Dorsey has emerged as a lifestyle guru in Silicon Valley, raising demand for near-infrared saunas, meditation retreats, cryotherapy spas, and fasting tools

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Researchers link 6 software supply chain attacks, including backdoors in CCleaner and Asus' software update tool, to a group of likely Chinese-speaking hackers

More: Ars Technica, The New Stack, and PC Gamer

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Vulnerability in Dell's pre-installed SupportAssist utility exposes Dell computers to remote hijacks if attacker can get on the same network with unpatched PC

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Chris Zacharias:

A group of YouTube engineers warned IE6 users ten years ago, without permission, that the browser would not be supported, contributing to its demise

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