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Facebook Says Hackers Accessed Information Of 50 Million Users In Latest Data Breach Facebook announced a new data breach on Friday. Hackers accessed the information of 50 million Facebook users, as Facebook remains under pressure for misuse of users' personal data. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Says Security Breach Affected Almost 50 Million Accounts An investigation into what happened is "still in its early stages," but Facebook says the security vulnerability has been fixed and that law enforcement has been notified. Read more on NPR

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Vishaan Chakrabarti: How Can We Design More Welcoming Cities? Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti says many modern cities feel cold, austere, and anonymous. He advocates for designing more vibrant and inclusive cities that are reminiscent of the scale of older cities. Read more on NPR

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SEC Sues Elon Musk Over Tesla Tweets The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Elon Musk over statements he made on Twitter about taking Tesla private. Read more on NPR

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"Enjoy 'Standing' On The Surface Of This Asteroid!" Via New Video Two Japanese rovers touring an asteroid have sent photos and a video back home, which were published by the Japanese space agency Thursday. Read more on NPR

SEC Sues Tesla CEO Elon Musk "Musk's false and misleading public statements and omissions caused significant confusion and disruption in the market for Tesla's stock and resulting harm to investors," the lawsuit says. Read more on NPR

SEC Sues Tesla and CEO Elon Musk "Musk's false and misleading public statements and omissions caused significant confusion and disruption in the market for Tesla's stock and resulting harm to investors," the lawsuit says. Read more on NPR

Europe's Copyright Reforms Are More Than (Just) A Boring Policy Change Two weeks ago, the European Commission approved new rules that will change how tech companies are required to deal with copyright infringement on their platforms. Unsurprisingly, it was controversial. Read more on NPR

Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles Dutch Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen has proposed amending traffic laws to forbid bicyclists from holding a "mobile electronic device" while on the road. Read more on NPR

Uber Pays $148 million Over Year-Long Cover-Up Of Data Breach Instead of reporting the hacking intrusion as required, Uber paid the hackers $100,000 after learning of the breach in late 2016. Read more on NPR

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Tracking Down Fake Videos The Defense Department is working with outside experts on detection and prevention efforts for fake videos. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid. Read more on NPR

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Attorneys General Zoom In On Tech Privacy And Power A meeting with the Justice Department was originally pitched to focus on allegations of social media's anti-conservative bias. But the conversation was broadened, raising the stakes for tech giants. Read more on NPR

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Instagram Co-Founders To Step Down Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger resigned from the popular photo-sharing app company Tuesday, saying they plan to leave in the coming weeks to pursue other projects. Read more on NPR

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Sessions To Meet With State Attorneys General About Social Media U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions meets Tuesday with a group of state attorneys general to talk about the power of the tech industry, and allegations of anti-conservative bias on social media. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Brett Kavanaugh, Trump At U.N., Attorney General Sessions The Supreme Court nominee talks publicly for the first time since misconduct allegations were made against him. Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly. Sessions talks to state attorneys general. Read more on NPR

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SiriusXM To Buy Internet Radio Pioneer Pandora In $3.5 Billion Deal The satellite radio giant would ink the deal taking over Pandora in the first quarter of 2019. Read more on NPR

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California Launches New Effort To Fight Election Disinformation The state's new Office of Election Cybersecurity will focus on combating social media campaigns that try to confuse voters or discourage them from not casting ballots. Read more on NPR

Bolstering Security Ahead Of Midterm Elections Around the country, local election officials are urgently preparing for Nov. 6 by upgrading their systems and improving security. Read more on NPR

As West Grows, Water Use Declines Thanks To Better Toilets Despite the growth of population in the western U.S., water use in cities such as Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix is going down. The reason? High-tech, low-flow toilets. Read more on NPR

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Hacks, Security Gaps And Oligarchs: The Business Of Voting Comes Under Scrutiny Heading into midterm elections, pressure is on for governments and campaigns to secure elections. But what about the companies who make the machines and print the ballots? Read more on NPR

Google Warned Senators, Aides Of Hacking Attempts On Personal Emails In a recent letter, Sen. Ron Wyden said some senators and Senate staff members were warned by a major tech company "that their personal email accounts were targeted by foreign government hackers." Read more on NPR

Hackers Steal $59 Million In Cryptocurrency From Japanese Exchange Tech Bureau Corp., which owns the Zaif cryptocurrency exchange, says the security breach occurred last week, and was discovered several days later. Read more on NPR

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Artificial Intelligence At Home In Pittsburgh Once the hub of steel production, Pittsburgh is now a hotspot for another burgeoning industry: artificial intelligence. Read more on NPR

Tech Giant Apple Spared Financial Pain In Latest Round Of Tariffs On China With the trade tensions on the rise again, Apple has a lot at stake, with its money-making iPhone assembled completely in China. So far, the tech darling has managed to navigate the dispute unscathed. Read more on NPR

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Do IVF And Other Infertility Tech Lead To Health Risks For The Baby? Maybe A small study of teens who were conceived via assisted reproductive technology finds a significant number already have hypertension and premature "age-related changes" in their blood vessels. Read more on NPR

Have A Cool Idea To Help End World Hunger? Pitch It To The U.N. At the World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator, teams test out new proposals to stop hunger. Anyone can submit. And September deadlines are coming up. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Allowed Employers To Exclude Women From Job Ads, ACLU Says The complaint, filed Tuesday, says 10 businesses prevented women from receiving employment opportunities on the website. It also accused Facebook of excluding women in its own company. Read more on NPR

Tech In Times Of Trouble Natural disaster? There's an app for that. Read more on NPR

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Georgia Will Use Electronic Voting Machines This Fall As Paper Ballot Case Falters A judge said such a paper ballot rollout would "seriously test" the capacity of election workers, and "swamp the polls with work and voters," leading to "disaffection and frustration." Read more on NPR

Technology Helps Motorists Maneuver In A Natural Disaster When it comes to getting help navigating a natural disaster, there's so much technology available, the options are almost overwhelming. What works? Read more on NPR

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Giant 'Pac-Man' Launched To Gobble Garbage Patch Last Saturday, the nonprofit Ocean Cleanup dispatched a device to help clean up litter in the Pacific Ocean. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Boyan Slat, the young CEO who came up with the idea. Read more on NPR

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Gov. Brown's Biggest Climate Foe Isn't Trump. It's Car-Loving Californians Gov. Jerry Brown of California wants the state to radically cut carbon emissions. But to meet those goals, every new vehicle sold in California by 2040 will have to be a zero-emission model. Read more on NPR

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Advertising On Facebook: Is It Worth It? A lawsuit says Facebook is misleading advertisers about just how effective it is. Facebook, which makes billions from ads, says it can't guarantee that all of them will reach their intended targets. Read more on NPR

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