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Google says it will block any user login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to better prevent man-in-the-middle attacks starting in June (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google says it will block any user login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to better prevent man-in-the-middle attacks starting in June  —  Google previously banned logins initiated from browsers where JavaScript had been disabled.  —  Google announced today a security update … Google says it will block any user login attempts

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Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a report detailed an alleged sexual battery incident involving Gutentag when he worked for Uber in 2015 (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a report detailed an alleged sexual battery incident involving Gutentag when he worked for Uber in 2015  —  Eyal Gutentag, the chief marketing officer of the employment job site ZipRecruiter, has left the company following … Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a

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Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup STORD raises $12.3M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it has more than five Fortune 500 clients (Holly Beilin/Hypepotamus)

Holly Beilin / Hypepotamus: Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup STORD raises $12.3M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it has more than five Fortune 500 clients  —  Details have emerged about supply chain software startup STORD’s latest funding round, a $12.3 million Series A. The round was led … Supply chain and

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Scribd took down multiple copies of the Mueller Report, which is in the public domain, claiming that its algorithms identified it as a copyrighted work (David Yanofsky/Quartz)

David Yanofsky / Quartz: Scribd took down multiple copies of the Mueller Report, which is in the public domain, claiming that its algorithms identified it as a copyrighted work  —  A convenient feature of nearly all documents created by the US government is that they have no copyright. Scribd took down multiple copies of the

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Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution  —  WannaCry hero faces up to ten years in a US prison.  —  Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, the British security researcher known for stopping … Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a

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Report: FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that took The Weather Channel off the air for 90 minutes amid severe weather in southeast US (Colin Lecher/The Verge)

Colin Lecher / The Verge: Report: FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that took The Weather Channel off the air for 90 minutes amid severe weather in southeast US  —  Down for more than an hour  —  The Weather Channel was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, briefly taking a live TV program off

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CDN provider Fastly files for an IPO, says it had $144M in revenue, up 38% YoY, and a net loss of $31M in 2018; Fastly raised a total of $291M in VC funding (Alex Wilhelm/Crunchbase News)

Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: CDN provider Fastly files for an IPO, says it had $144M in revenue, up 38% YoY, and a net loss of $31M in 2018; Fastly raised a total of $291M in VC funding  —  Morning Markets: A dorky edition of this column focused on the Fastly S-1 filing.  —  A

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Tencent wins approval from its regional regulator to sell Nintendo Switch in China, the first key step for the console to enter the world's largest games market (Reuters)

Reuters: Tencent wins approval from its regional regulator to sell Nintendo Switch in China, the first key step for the console to enter the world’s largest games market  —  BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – China’s Tencent has won a key approval to start selling the Nintendo Switch in the country … Tencent wins approval from its regional

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36 days after Christchurch, variations of raw attack footage like short modified clips, screen recordings of the video playing, can still be found on Facebook (Joseph Cox/Motherboard)

Joseph Cox / Motherboard: 36 days after Christchurch, variations of raw attack footage like short modified clips, screen recordings of the video playing, can still be found on Facebook  —  The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook’s moderators and technology. 36 days

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