Dec 14th 2016
Tech News Today 1661
The Aunt Prissy Effect
Yahoo hacked again, self-driving Uber in SF
US President Elect Donald Trump invited a number of Silicon Valley’s top technology minds to an introductory meeting at Trump tower.
Microsoft has quietly issued a patch fixing one of their Windows automatic update patches that blocked users from accessing the Internet or joining a local network.
Yahoo disclosed a new hack involving more than 1 billion user accounts, with names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, hashed passwords, and security questions and answers all leaked to a third party.
Amazon's Prime Air completed its first drone delivery -- a fire TV device and a bag of popcorn, in a beta test of the service in Cambridgeshire in England.
A new update rolling out to Twitter users brings the capability for Live video broadcasting into the app itself, and it's powered by Periscope.
- Andrew Hawkins from The Verge talks about Uber's new self-driving ride-hailing service in San Francisco and why regulators want to shut it down on its first day.
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Links
- Trump meets with tech titans as Bezos lauds 'productive' session
- Elon Musk and the chief executive of Uber are now advising Donald Trump
- Trump team says Twitter too small to be included in tech meeting
- 13 Faces Every Tech CEO Who Goes To A Meeting With Donald Trump Will Immediately Recognize
- Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking
- Yahoo reveals new hack where ‘unauthorized third party’ stole data from more than 1B accounts
- An Airdrop of Popcorn Makes Amazon Drone Delivery History
- Periscope down
- YOU CAN HAIL A SELF-DRIVING UBER IN SAN FRANCISCO STARTING TODAY
- APNewsBreak: California to Uber: Stop Self-Driving Car Rides
- Wynn Las Vegas to equip 4,748 hotel rooms with Amazon Echo: It’s ‘seamlessly delicious,’ Steve Wynn says