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1. Trump showing off his 300 hamburgers for Clemson national championship football team
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... and Burger King. “Here’s a video I shot of President Trump showing off his 300 hamburgers.” Hunter Walker, White House Correspondent, Yahoo News. It's quite something. Here’s a video I shot of President ...

2. Thunderbird team vows faster, easier-to-use, more stable versions in the year to come
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... project with institutional backing from Moz. It was an odd move at the time: the Snowden revelations and the news that Yahoo had provided the NSA with free access to user emails, along with the sputtering ...

3. SMS text two-factor authentication "bypassed at scale"
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... break into Gmail and Yahoo accounts at scale, even those with two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. They do this by automating the entire process, with a phishing page not only asking a victim for their ...

4. Facebook let Netflix and Spotify read the private messages of its users
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... private messages. The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite ...

5. How to install Rainloop Webmail on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
(English/Linuxtoday)

HowToForge: Rainloop is a free, open source, simple and fast web-based email client that can be used to access emails from any mail servers like Postfix, Gmail, Yahoo and many more Read all  ...

6. Verizon writes down its Yahoo/AOL assets by $4.6 billion
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

A friend who works in ad-tech tells me that Verizon's datasets from its Yahoo/AOL assets are "the creepiest" in the industry, but even with every dirty trick and every stupid, harebrained scheme, the ...

7. Verizon/Aol fined $5m for knowingly helping advertisers track children
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... that it's the largest COPPA hit yet. Verizon has consistently fought government regulation of privacy in broadband networks. As owner of Oath, Verizon is forcing users of Yahoo services to waive their ...

8. Marriott-Starwood data breach: 500 million guests may be affected, hackers active since 2014
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Yahoo breach that affected three billion people. Marriott said it has uncovered unauthorized access that has been taking place within its Starwood network since 2014. If you thought the IT side of the ...

9. Marriott admits hack exposing "as many as 500 million" travelers
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... preferences. For some guests, the information was limited to name and sometimes other data such as mailing address, email address or other information. Yahoo holds the record, with 3bn accounts breached. ...

10. Mueller probe questions Ivanka and Don Jr's role in Trump Tower Moscow scheme
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... deal, reports Hunter Walker at Yahoo News. That same deal involved a $50 Million penthouse for Putin. Michael Cohen flipped, this is a big thing, and it may end up being the President's undoing. From ...

11. A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... password reset codes and Huawei ID verification codes; * Yahoo also used the service to send some account keys by text message; * And, several small to mid-size hospitals and medical facilities ...

12. Flickr limits free plan to 1,000 photos or videos
(English/engadget)

... service, which SmugMug bought from Yahoo earlier... Read all  ...

13. Prototype Nintendo Wii remote turns up at auction
(English/engadget)

Nintendo's hidden device history isn't just limited to an unreleased PlayStation. Yahoo Japan user Kuriaisu1122 recently sold a prototype Wii remote that bears only superficial similarity to ...

14. Facebook's former security head: making Facebook moderate content will cement its dominance
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... character; he seems to have walked out on his job running security for Yahoo rather than building an NSA backdoor for them, making him something of a human warrant canary). Stamos is now at Stanford's ...

15. RIP, Google+: long ailing and finished off by a security bug
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

There was a time when you could get the smartest people at Google to do the stupidest things you could imagine by getting Yahoo to do them first; thankfully that era ended -- only to be replaced by an ...

16. Yahoo Together group chat app organizes conversations by topic
(English/engadget)

You have loads of group chat apps to choose from if you want to keep in touch with friends and family, but Yahoo's new entry promises a more organized experience than most. The company has launched ...

17. Privacy: Yahoo still scans your emails... and wants to sell data to advertisers
(English/Betanews)

Oath -- the owner of Yahoo -- is in talks with advertisers, promoting a service that scans the content of emails and provides a wealth of information about users. The service would give advertisers access ...

18. Review of a $100 counterfeit iPhone X
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Store” had malfunctioned. The “Weather” app is just Yahoo! Weather. The Health App is a third party thing that asked me to click cartoon avatars selecting whether I was a “boy or girl.” The “Podcasts” ...

19. If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... or Yahoo email address. Computers normally do the scanning, analyzing about 100 million emails a day. At one point about two years ago, Return Path employees read about 8,000 unredacted emails to help ...

20. Listen: Stuttering John actually talks to Trump on the phone in bold prank
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

It's hard to believe, but according to Axios and Yahoo Finance, as well as my own ears, The Stuttering John Podcast just recorded a prank phone call with Trump. Yesterday, comedian John Melendez just ...

21. Yahoo Mail, nuova web app e versione Android Go
(Italiano/webnews)

La versione web di Yahoo Mail ha una nuova interfaccia e offre funzionalità simile a quelle dell'app, mentre Yahoo Mail Go è ottimizzata per Android Go. The post Yahoo Mail, nuova web app e versione Android ...

22. Yahoo goes lightweight with its Mail app to cater to emerging markets
(English/Neowin)

Yahoo is trying to increase the appeal of its Mail service by creating a lightweight version of its app optimized for Android Go as well as a new web app that's faster and easier to use. Read more... ...

23. With new updates, Yahoo bets big on Mail’s mobile future
(English/engadget)

... normally be used to. Yahoo wants to change that. The brand (which, like... Read all  ...

24. Here are 15 privacy settings you should change from defaults, from Linkedin to cellphones to smart TVs
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

The Washington Post rounds up 15 privacy defaults that no one in their right mind would want to leave as-is, and provides direct links to change 'em (hilariously and predictably, Verizon/Oath/Yahoo's ...

25. Silk road adviser caught, Kaspersky sues Dutch paper, and Vietnam's tech clampdown
(English/TheRegister)

Also, Weight Watchers is light on security Roundup  This week included a big Patch Tuesday bundle, a fresh fine for Yahoo!, and yet another Intel bug that potentially exposes sensitive kernel information.… ...