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Uber says Travis Kalanick, its former CEO, will step down from the company's board of directors effective Dec. 31; Kalanick has sold all of his stock in Uber — - Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the board effective Dec. 31. — Kalanick was ousted as CEO in 2017 but remained a director.
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Researcher says he was able to match 17M phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in Twitter's Android app, before Twitter blocked his effort — A security researcher said he has matched 17 million phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in Twitter's Android app.
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| Natalie Wexler / MIT Technology Review: |
Educators and school administrators love digital devices that studies show mostly have a negative impact on learning, harming lower performing students the most — Educators love digital devices, but there's little evidence they help children—especially those who most need help.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Many schools in the US, including Syracuse U., track students' phones to monitor class attendance, as some worry it desensitizes students to 24/7 surveillance — When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin's Introduction to Information Technologies class … | ProPublica: |
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network — As they prepared for last year's holiday rush, managers at Amazon unveiled a plan to make the company's sprawling delivery network the safest in the world.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter blocks animated PNGs, saying a bug had allowed them, and that they did not respect autoplay settings so could be used to harm people sensitive to motion — Twitter will no longer animate PNG files after trolls hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's handle and hashtags last month …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: APT20, a Chinese government-linked hacking group, has bypassed key fob-enabled 2FA in recent attacks on government orgs and managed service providers — Chinese state-sponsored group APT20 has been busy hacking government entities and managed service providers.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Randy Suess, co-creator of the first public dial-up bulletin board system, which was a forerunner of today's social media services, has died at 74 — The messaging system that he and a friend created in 1978 was a forerunner of social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: unpatched flaws in Citrix products leave 80,000+ businesses potentially vulnerable to unauthorized network access; Cisco shares steps to mitigate — A newly discovered vulnerability impacting the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and the Citrix Gateway … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company — YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history.| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Hedera Hashgraph, which has raised $100M+ in 2018 ICO, asks investors to wait longer for purchased tokens, to help stabilize their cratering price — Hedera Hashgraph, the company behind the blockchain-like Hedera network, is asking investors to wait longer for tokens they paid for, in order to stabilize their cratering price.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Dish increases price of both Sling TV packages, Orange and Blue, by $5 to $30/month, gives all users 10 hours of cloud-based DVR storage and additional channels — The cheap days of Sling TV are over — The cheap days of Sling TV are over. Dish's internet TV service is raising the price …
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