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Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Twitter says around 130 accounts were affected in Wednesday's hack, and the attackers gained control of and sent tweets from a subset of those accounts — - “We believe approximately 130 accounts were targeted by the attackers in some way as part of the incident," Twitter said Thursday.
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| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based “no log” VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet — Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, no! Logging VPN!' — BIO EMAIL TWITTER
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| Delian Asparouhov / Operators & Delian's Ramblings: |
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy” — OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate — Hundreds of advertisers have paused spending on the social network due to concerns about hate speech, divisive content
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| Toby Helm / The Guardian: |
Sources: UK told Huawei that geopolitics played a part in its 5G ban and gave the impression the decision could be revisited if Trump fails to win a second term — ‘Geopolitical’ factors were behind the move, the company was told, with hints that the decision could be reversed in future| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Some experts agree that TikTok may pose a threat to the US national security because of China, but blocking the app would be too drastic a measure — Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure.
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| Nikhil Basu Trivedi / next big thing: |
A look at the bifurcation of the VC industry between agglomerators, who invest at every stage and across every sector, and specialists, who focus on one — Welcome to issue #10 of next big thing. — On one side of the venture capital industry are the agglomerator firms.
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| Dave Furness / eSellerCafe: |
Amazon warns third party sellers it may separate Fulfillment by Amazon operations in UK from its EU network starting January 1 — Unsurprising for some but surely a shock for others today as Amazon has announced that due to Brexit on the 1st January 2021 the UK's FBA operations will be separated from the rest of Europe.| Niall Firth / MIT Technology Review: |
Critics contend that predictive policing algorithms need to be dismantled due to biased training data, even as advocates say that algorithms can be made fair — Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can't fix them, we should ditch them.
Tweets: @techreview, @techreview, @_karenhao, and @shaftag
| South China Morning Post: |
CloudMinds CEO, a Chinese engineer who started the cloud-based robotics company in SV, says he will not consider US listing after sanctions hurt the business — CloudMinds lost almost 75 per cent of orders in the US and cut 80 per cent of its US workforce after Washington imposed sanctions … | Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
CampusLogic, whose SaaS tech is helping simplify student financial aid processes at 750+ colleges and universities, receives $120M investment from Dragoneer — CampusLogic's new $120 million growth investment will help the education technology company expand its student financial success platform.
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