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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the Economic Club of Washington DC's "Milestone Celebration Dinner."
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- $4. It came back online after securing the services of BitMitigate, but went offline again after service provider Voxility cut off access to BitMitigate and the websites it hosts.
- $4. He said he is directing the Department of Justice to work with local and state agencies as well as social media companies to "develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike."
- $4. In the memo, a female employee charged that managers discriminated against her and another woman because of their pregnancies and retaliated against her when she spoke out on behalf of the other woman.
- The vulnerability that led to the Capital One data breach was a result of a misconfigured Capital One system that communicates with the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal>$4. The type of vulnerability has been known about by security researchers for years.
- $4. After her channel was terminated, Soph tweeted an image of herself holding what looked like a gun and the caption, "youtube headquarters here I come," according to Buzzfeed, but then later said the tweet was a joke.
- $4. Global Times said the device would be priced at around $288, and said HongMeng would be "an alternative to Google's Android OS."
- $4. The shares were in addition to the $1.8 billion worth of stock he sold earlier in the week, and it isn't clear why he's selling.
- $4. The government argued that litigation with Facebook, rather than a fine, would probably result in a worse outcome for users.
- $4. Researchers at North Carolina State University looked at the lifecycle of scooters and found they produce higher emissions per passenger mile than a crowded bus, an electric moped or bike, and walking.
- $4. In its first deal, Attention Capital is acquiring, with James Murdoch's Lupa Systems, a controlling stake in Tribeca Film Festival parent Tribeca Enterprises.
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