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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 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: 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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    • SQLite flaws left Chrome open to remote code execution before being patched two weeks ago, were found by Tencent researchers a year after revealing similar bugs (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: SQLite flaws left Chrome open to remote code execution before being patched two weeks ago, were found by Tencent researchers a year after revealing similar bugs  —  Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities were patched in Google Chrome 79.0.3945.79.  —  A new set of SQLite vulnerabilities can allow attackers … SQLite flaws left Chrome

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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 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

    Annie Palmer / CNBC: 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

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    • 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 (Bloomberg)

    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. Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for

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    Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

    The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?” Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands Source: Washington Post Tech

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