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September 4, 2019, 9:25 PM

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Unsecured database with 419M+ phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts found; FB says data was obtained before it disabled searching for users via phone number  —  Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online.  —  The exposed server contained …
CNBC:
Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube  —  - Google marketed itself as the “leader” for content for children ages 6 through 11, the allegations claim.
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Twitter says it has “temporarily” turned off the SMS-to-tweet feature, after Jack Dorsey's account was compromised  —  Twitter has “temporarily” turned off the ability to tweet via text message just days after the feature was misused by hackers to tweet a racial slur, bomb threat …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Brave browser exec hands evidence to Irish data regulator alleging Google uses hidden webpages to pass personal data of users to advertisers  —  Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Slack reports Q2 revenue of $145M, up 58% YoY, says it had over 100,000 paid customers, up 37% YoY; stock is down ~15%+ after hours  —  KEY POINTS  —  Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, at the 2018 WEF in Davos, Switzerland.  —  Shares of Slack, maker of the popular workplace chat app …
Michael Zelenko / The Verge:
A look at the newly announced Light Phone 2, a $350 stripped back feature phone with an E Ink display, and how the company learned from the first generation  —  The Light Phone returns with many aspirations and not too many features  —  Released in the spring of 2017 …
New York Times:
Source: Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft held a daylong meeting with US government officials over 2020 election security  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft met with government officials in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss and coordinate on how best …
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Canada-based Clio, which offers cloud-based legal practice management, client intake, and legal CRM software, raises $250M Series D  —  A software company that helps law practices run more efficiently may not be the flashiest business in town, but that's not stopping some VCs from backing them with pretty high dollars.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Amazon announces over 20 Fire TV-branded devices, including a new Fire TV Cube and an Anker-made soundbar, as the company seeks to compete with Roku and others  —  The posts have been deleted, but the info is out  —  Amazon looks set to release a new Fire TV Cube and a host of new …
Logan McDonald / BuzzFeed:
Inside BuzzFeed's Tech + News Working Group, a collaboration between reporters and the IT team, leading to better understanding of issues, new tools, and scoops  —  This question — and many, many others like it — arose from an initiative called “The Tech + News Working Group,” …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Singapore to invest $360M in AI and other digital tech through 2020 and is already attracting US and Chinese companies with policies that support AI research  —  Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars.  Sign up here.
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Basecamp CEO: Google's practice of letting rivals pay for ads that appear ahead of their brand in organic results is a shakedown and like paying ransom  —  - The CEO of web-based project management tool company Basecamp sounds off on Google's search ad practices in a now-viral tweet.

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