Kim Lyons / The Verge: Convenience store chain Wawa discloses a data breach across its 700 stores over the past nine months that may have exposed customer and credit card details — The breach may have affected all 700 stores over the past nine months. — If you used your credit card or debit card
Read MoreFanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: China’s Ant Financial acquires stake in Vietnamese e-wallet company eMonkey in a strategic move to get into Vietnam’s ~100M fintech market — JAKARTA (Reuters) – China’s Ant Financial, a fintech affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) … Sources: China's Ant Financial acquires stake in Vietnamese e-wallet company
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: Ghostery releases Ghostery Midnight, a desktop app that includes an ad blocker, tracker protection and monitoring, and a VPN, for $14 per month — Ghostery, a popular privacy- and security-focused browser extension and mobile browser app, has officially launched for desktop users. Ghostery releases Ghostery Midnight, a desktop app that includes
Read MoreThe space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there’s yet another race, prompted by China’s successful landing on the far side of the moon and involving private companies as well as national space agencies, to put humans back
Read MoreYou’re probably wondering if Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has an end-credits scene. It doesn’t but… Does Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have a postcredit scene? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMajor spoiler alert: Don’t even go near this if you haven’t seen the film. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's big ending, explained – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTodd Feathers / VICE: Docs: SpaceX, others are lobbying FCC to deny Amazon’s waiver request for spectrum access for its satellite internet project after Amazon missed 2016 deadline — When Amazon confirmed it was planning to launch 3,236 broadband internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit … Docs: SpaceX, others are lobbying FCC to deny Amazon's waiver
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s Ring is having a very bad week. BuzzFeed News first reported today that login credentials for thousands of Ring camera owners have been published online, including 3,672 sets of emails, passwords, time zones, and the names given to specific Ring cameras (“front door” or “kitchen,” for example).
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past few years, record labels have been suing ISPs for not removing music pirates from their services, and today, the record labels may have won a tremendous victory. A US District Court jury has found Cox Communications liable for piracy infringement of more than 10,000 musical
Read MoreThe damage award comes after major record labels accused the internet giant of turning a blind eye to piracy on its networks. Cox Communications hit with B music piracy verdict – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: OnePlus unveils a bug bounty program with rewards from $50-$7,000 open to any security expert and a bug bounty partnership with HackerOne for select researchers — You can earn up to $7,000 for submitting a bug — OnePlus announced its second data breach in two years back in November …
Read MoreAfter previous movies borrowed heavily from the original trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker rips off… Wait, what? Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker feels a whole lot like … Indiana Jones? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHenry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan and showrunner Lauren Hissrich reveal what makes the new TV series so magical. The Witcher on Netflix: Henry Cavil on casting spells and casting horses – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Photo hosting service SmugMug has penned an open letter asking fans of the photo site Flickr, which it acquired from Yahoo two years ago, to sign up for the platform’s Pro subscription to help “keep the Flickr dream alive.” The letter, authored by SmugMug founder and CEO Don
Read MoreClaire Stapleton / ELLE: Claire Stapleton, a Google Walkout organizer, recalls Google execs supporting the activism initially, then slowly pushing her out of the company in retaliation — Claire Stapleton didn’t just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics?
Read MoreAlgorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found. Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study Source: NY Times Tech
Read More2019 has been hell of a ride for the coworking industry. Alongside reports of unprecedented growth of flexible ‘coworking,’ we’ve also watched one of the biggest media furors unfold with our industry’s first mover, WeWork. Funny enough, I’ve been on parental leave since September with my second child, and in that time, WeWork pulled out
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Best Buy is having a flash sale from 7PM ET on December 19th to 1AM ET on December 20th. There’s a range of deals, but we’ve collected the ones that stood out to us here. Most of these items are expected to ship in time for Christmas. Best
Read MoreChris Eggertsen / Billboard: Jury finds Cox Communications liable for its customers’ piracy of 10,000+ musical works, awards $1B to Sony Music, EMI, Universal, and Warner Music — Cox Communications was found liable for piracy infringement of more than 10,000 musical works by a U.S. District Court jury in Virgina on Thursday … Jury finds
Read MoreText messages indicate that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, worked behind the scenes to help the companies pull off a deal. How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreResearchers found that most facial-recognition algorithms exhibit “demographic differentials” that can worsen their accuracy based on a person’s age, gender or race. Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems, casts doubt on their expanding use Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, has penned a first-person essay for Elle magazine detailing her time at the search giant and the series of events leading up to her resignation this past June after alleged retaliation from upper management. The essay,
Read MoreIt must have lost its a-peel. Elon Musk tweets, deletes silly Cybertruck banana photo – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas or pay for snacks at any Wawa convenience store, anytime in the past nine months, your card information may have been skimmed by malware. The Philadelphia-based gas and convenience store chain says it discovered the malware on its payment processing servers on December
Read MoreYou can browse the catalog of movies and shows, but you can’t watch ’em. Hulu outage prevents videos from playing – CNET Source: CNet
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