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Why should anybody trust Facebook with their personal data?

Hackers may have accessed 50 million Facebook accounts in a new security breach

Netflix and Hulu go in for comedies while Amazon sticks to drama: A look at the original content boom

Recode Daily: Kara Swisher’s new podcast, why Snap will get acquired

Why Snap will get acquired before 2020, probably by Amazon

The SEC is suing Elon Musk for misleading Tesla investors with a tweet

How Facebook could screw up Instagram

Recode Daily: Brett Kavanaugh meets his accuser on the Senate stand today

Elon Musk Steps Down as Tesla’s Chairman in Settlement With S.E.C. Over Go-Private Tweet

Sloan Kettering Executive Turns Over Windfall Stake in Biotech Start-Up

LendingClub Founder, Ousted in 2016, Settles Fraud Charges

Google Chief Agrees to Testify to Congress

Strategies: The New iPhones Look Fine. But My Old One Is Better Than Ever.

Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users

S.E.C. Goes After Musk With Its ‘Ultimate’ Penalty. Here’s Who Else Has Been Barred.

Bits: The Week in Tech: The Robots Aren’t as Human as They Seem

Bytedance of China Eyes $75 Billion Valuation, Joining Start-Up Giants

Tesla shares fall after SEC alleges Musk lied to investors

The latest tools for sexual assault victims: Smartphone apps and software

Study links restricting screen time for kids to higher mental performance

Lockheed-Boeing venture chooses rocket engine developed by Bezos’s Blue Origin

A telemarketer made about 21 million robocalls in 3 months. The FCC just fined it $82 million.

Uber reaches $148 million settlement over its 2016 data breach, which affected 57 million globally

Inside the private Justice Department meeting that could lead to new investigations of Facebook, Google and other tech giants

Google overhauls search to show more pictures, videos and context

Blackhawks beaten out by Italian-designed copter for Air Force UH-1 replacement

Instagram co-founders resign in latest Facebook shake-up

After working with Tesla’s Australia battery, wind company wants more batteries

Google plans to send a top executive to Congress after facing criticism

Comcast stock tanks after company strikes $40 billion deal to buy Sky

A content moderator says she got PTSD while reviewing images posted on Facebook

The future of 5G mobile data could hinge on a battle over utility pole fees

Actors who played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - CNET

Stranger Things haunted house offers plenty of Demogorgon - CNET

Inside the Universal Studios Stranger Things haunted house - CNET

Tesla's Elon Musk settles with SEC, is out as board chair, will pay $20M - Roadshow

Tom Hardy on why (and how) Bane would beat Venom - CNET

Tim Allen compares Toy Story 4 to Avengers: Infinity War - CNET

Monoprice ups sound quality game with a sweet $150 headphone - CNET

Can you stop being an audiophile? - CNET

Awe-inspiring First Man brings you the moon and stars - CNET

Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, flies high - CNET

You cannot stop the wind in the Smart Forease concept - Roadshow

Nachos and a 90-inch TV -- what could be better? - CNET

9 best food delivery apps and how to choose among them - CNET

The best facial recognition cameras you can buy today - CNET

9 great reads from CNET this week - CNET

NASA's Star Trek dreams aren’t so crazy after all - CNET

Best Netflix series for October 2018 - CNET

NASA photographer talks rocket launches and a camera 'that smells like a campfire' - CNET

Stretch those electric legs in the longer-range 2019 BMW i3 - Roadshow

Conservative Party conference app reveals MPs' numbers

Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked

US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws

Tesla: Shares fall after regulators launch Musk lawsuit

Facebook slated over phone ad push

Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

Elon Musk is stepping down as chairman.

DuckDuckGo Traffic is Exploding

DefCon: A voting machine that is currently used in 26 states is vulnerable to be remotely hacked via a network attack. Hacking just one of these machines could enable an attacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election.

Apple went rotten after Steve Jobs’ death, former engineer claims

Web inventor Berners-Lee creates a new privacy first way of dealing with the internet

SEC settles charges with Tesla's Elon Musk, will remain as CEO

Poor Mr Anus, the council candidate given a bum deal by Facebook - A local election candidate in Belgium has been forced to change his name by the social network on the grounds that it is ‘offensive and inappropriate’.

FBI: We can’t listen to Facebook Messenger voice calls. Judge: Tough luck - Fresno-based federal judge won't force Facebook to help MS-13 investigation.

Facebook is weaponizing security to erode privacy

Best Buy accidentally sells customer the new, unannounced Chromecast

Tim Berners-Lee launches open source project Solid to decentralize the web and place users in control of data

US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws

MoviePass test reactivates accounts if users don't opt out.

Microsoft launches Office 2019 for Windows, macOS

Exposing Cambridge Analytica: 'It's been exhausting, exhilarating, and slightly terrifying' - Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr on her investigation into the firm at the centre of a data breach that shamed Facebook and exposed foul play in the EU referendum campaign and US presidential election

The web is broken, so its founder is taking another stab at it

Facebook hack gets worse as company admits Instagram and other apps were exposed too

Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web

Tesla big battery defies skeptics, sends industry bananas over performance

Google facing lawsuit after military bases not blurred on Maps, Street View and Earth

How Programmable Calculators and a Sci-Fi Story Brought Soviet Teens Into the Digital Age

Sorry, not sorry: The problem with Facebook’s sorry campaign

Facebook is weaponizing security to erode privacy

Elon Musk’s Fait Accompli

Digital ID systems, as they are being developed today, are ripe for exploitation and abuse; citizens must advocate for principles that shield fundamental rights (Brett Solomon/Wired)

EU enacts law enabling cross-border recognition of national electronic IDs, like driver licenses and bank cards, in tax filing, medical records, public services (Digital Single Market)

Satellite communications company Iridium partners with AWS to develop CloudConnect, a satellite-based network for IoT applications, expected to launch in 2019 (Michael Sheetz/CNBC)

A look at how HSI, the investigative arm of ICE, used a New Deal-era warrant called the customs summons to help shutdown South Korean spycam porn site Soranet (The Verge)

Inside Bentonville UP, a secretive conference attended by reps from Airbus, Google, Uber, NASA, US Air Force, and more to discuss innovation in flying cars (Eric Adams/Wired)

WSJ found ~$90M in criminal proceeds from fraud or hacks like WannaCry, laundered via 46 crypto exchanges; US-based ShapeShift processed $9M in suspect funds (Wall Street Journal)

Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over security flaw that made the country's citizen ID cards vulnerable to hacking last year (Tarmo Virki/Reuters)

Elon Musk and SEC settle; Musk admits no guilt, will remain Tesla CEO, has to resign as Chairman for 3 years, appoint 2 new independent directors, pay $20M fine (Javier E. David/CNBC)

Profile of Kathryn Haun, a former prosecutor who created US' first federal "digital currency task force" and now an a16z partner investing in crypto startups (Robert Hackett/Fortune)

UK's Conservative Party conference app allowed anyone to login without a password, just by using attendee's email, revealed personal details like phone numbers (The Guardian)

Profile of Bytedance, a China-based social news and video startup that may soon surpass Uber in valuation if rumored $1.5B SoftBank investment at $75B closes (Bloomberg)

CEO of Jawbone Health, which emerged after the liquidation of Jawbone, explains why he believes his new "device agnostic" health tracking startup will succeed (Eric Johnson/Recode)

Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data, and Inrupt, a startup to guide the project (Tim Berners-Lee)

Linus Torvalds shares thoughts on his decision to step away from Linux, the controversy behind the Code of Conduct, and the problems in the Linux community (Jane Wakefield/BBC)

Interview with Skype co-founder and VC firm Atomico founder Niklas Zennström on European tech, why startups need team members with diverse backgrounds, and more (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

BBC Music website offers dementia lifeline

Google to be sued by Belgium for not blurring military sites

San Diego port hit by ransomware attack

Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'

TSB and HSBC resolve online glitches that locked customer accounts

Fortnite Season 6 pets 'could expand game's audience'

Amazon to open 'four-star' store in New York

Uber pays $148m over data breach cover-up

PlayStation backs down in Fortnite cross-play row

'Distracted boyfriend' advert ruled sexist

Limiting children's screen time linked to better cognition

Tablet computer 'kills child' in car crash in Spain

Aadhaar: India top court upholds world's largest biometric scheme

Mobile phone charges 'unacceptable' says Ofcom

Instagram founders Systrom and Krieger leaving Facebook-owned firm

YouTube channel owner 'arrested over child sex abuse'

Facebook moderator sues over 'beheading stress'

Should gammon slur be banned on Twitter?

Tinder tests new feature for women in India

Qualcomm claims Apple shared tech with Intel

Labour conference: 'Nationalise the internet' call rejected

3D-printed gun pioneer bailed after sex assault charge

Gamer with terminal cancer achieves 'Ultimate' goal

Facebook caught automatically blocking AP and Guardian stories about the their massive data breach

China shuts down 4,000 websites in purge on 'improper values'

Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

Facebook says 50m user accounts affected by security breach | Technology | The Guardian

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach.

You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads.

How to delete Facebook - It may be time to leave the world’s biggest social network

Facebook's Already Getting Sued for Data Breach Affecting 50 Million Profiles

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook

'Time Is of the Essence': With Deadline 48 Hours Away, Californians Demand Jerry Brown Sign Net Neutrality Bill Immediately

Spotify demands family plan users' GPS data with threat to end service

Facebook Flaw Allowed Hackers to Take Over User Accounts

Facebook faces class-action lawsuit over massive new hack

Why should anybody trust Facebook with their personal data?

Victory! Gov. Brown Signs Bill Adding Sensible Requirements for DNA Collection From Minors

What Instagram users need to know about Facebook’s security breach

Apple demands hefty $9 billion price tag from Google for default search on iOS

Facebook says big breach exposed 50 million accounts to full takeover

California just became the first state with an Internet of Things cybersecurity law

Facebook discloses security breach affecting 50 million users

The 7 most eyebrow-raising details in the Elon Musk fraud complaint

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook

Researchers: 11-year-old flaw in vote scanner still unfixed. The vote-counting machine is used in 23 U.S states

Facebook announces security attack affecting 50 million users

Facebook's Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know

Billionaire LA Times owner calls 'fake news' and how it spreads on social media the 'cancer of our time'

California governor signs country's first IoT security law - CNET

CNET Asks: Are you a fan of the new Amazon Smart Home devices? - CNET

Tesla offers employees free self-driving and premium interiors for Autopilot driving data - Roadshow

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly cause comic chaos in Holmes and Watson trailer - CNET

Porsche's 'Moby Dick' 935 is back with a modern twist - Roadshow

Trump officials on 5G: Bring it on, private sector - CNET

Mercedes-AMG One gets its own mobile showroom - Roadshow

Facebook breach put data of 50 million users at risk - CNET

Honda recalls 232,000 Accord, Insight models over backup cameras - Roadshow

No, Spotify isn't using your GPS to kick you off your family plan - CNET

Elon Musk, Tesla and the SEC: How we got here, and what happens next - Roadshow

ITC says Apple infringes a Qualcomm patent but iPhones shouldn't be banned - CNET

Your next oil change is on us! - Roadshow

Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes halt some PHEV sales in Germany - Roadshow

The LG Watch W7 may be announced on Oct. 3 with the LG V40 - CNET

Google CEO Sundar Pichai to testify before US House in November - CNET

Ransomware attack hits Port of San Diego - CNET

Science Fair review: A heartfelt, funny look at kids changing the world - CNET

SpaceX moon tourist most excited about seeing Earth from afar - CNET

As Senate mulls Kavanaugh pick, Anita Hill talks value of women's voices - CNET

VW, Microsoft partner up to power VW's connected-car future - Roadshow

Reddit adds appeals process to offensive-subreddit Quarantine policy - CNET

Fortnite season 6 challenges, pets and map changes, explained - CNET

Slack is prepping for IPO in early 2019, says report - CNET

OnePlus 6T promo teases its in-screen fingerprint sensor - CNET

Another Day, Another Facebook Problem

Elon Musk Is His Own Worst Enemy

The Moon Is Open for Business

The Always-On Police Camera