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    • Marriott says a total of 383M records were stolen in its hack, less than the initial estimate of 500M, but 5M+ unencrypted passport numbers were accessed (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Marriott says a total of 383M records were stolen in its hack, less than the initial estimate of 500M, but 5M+ unencrypted passport numbers were accessed  —  Hotel chain says fewer total customers were affected than initially feared but analysts warn data could be intelligence trove Marriott says a total of 383M

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    • Internal memo shows that Huawei demoted two employees and cut their monthly pay for using an iPhone to send New Year greetings from its official Twitter account (Sijia Jiang/Reuters)

    Sijia Jiang / Reuters: Internal memo shows that Huawei demoted two employees and cut their monthly pay for using an iPhone to send New Year greetings from its official Twitter account  —  HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] has punished two employees for New Year greetings sent … Internal memo shows that Huawei

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    • How Intel's STORM, its global team of about 12 hackers working to mitigate future security threats, is still cleaning up the mess left by Meltdown and Spectre (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

    Lily Hay Newman / Wired: How Intel’s STORM, its global team of about 12 hackers working to mitigate future security threats, is still cleaning up the mess left by Meltdown and Spectre  —  A YEAR AGO today, Intel coordinated with a web of academic and independent researchers to disclose a pair of security vulnerabilities with

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    • Profile of Transfix, an online freight marketplace for truckers and shippers that has raised $78M and is valued at around $800M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

    Amy Feldman / Forbes: Profile of Transfix, an online freight marketplace for truckers and shippers that has raised $78M and is valued at around $800M  —  t 12, Drew McElroy was in trucking.  His parents ran a freight brokerage operation out of a spare bedroom in Milltown, New Jersey—connecting truck owners … Profile of Transfix,

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    • Hackers dump private information of hundreds of German politicians including email addresses, mobile phone numbers, personal chat transcripts, and photos (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Hackers dump private information of hundreds of German politicians including email addresses, mobile phone numbers, personal chat transcripts, and photos  —  – Leak includes emails, chat transcripts, photos, phone numbers  — Hack is ‘elaborate’ social-engineering attack, IT expert says Hackers dump private information of hundreds of German politicians including email addresses, mobile phone numbers,

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    • A target of one of the vigilante Facebook groups that hunt and publicly shame sexual predators has hung himself; after inquiry, Facebook suspended some hunters (Brandy Zadrozny/NBC News)

    Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: A target of one of the vigilante Facebook groups that hunt and publicly shame sexual predators has hung himself; after inquiry, Facebook suspended some hunters  —  Shane Erdmann started the online vigilante operation POPSquad, one of many similar groups tapping into a hunger for vengeance. A target of one of

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    Pokemon Cries And How They Work

    If you grew up watching the Pokémon TV series, you’d naturally be familiar with the cries of all your favourite Pocket Monsters. Most of the creatures in the anime tend to say their own name, over and over again. Pour one out for the legions of parents who, upon hearing a distant “PIKA PIKA!”,  still involuntarily

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