Hacking Humanity

Bloomberg: NYC sues Airbnb to comply with city’s subpoena on listings; Airbnb says it didn’t comply because NYC’s Office of Special Enforcement asked for too

Sean Hollister / CNET: Google says it got duck.com after buying video compression startup On2 in 2010; will now redirect domain to a page with

Wall Street Journal: Sources: event-planning company Eventbrite has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company has raised more than $350M and was valued at more

Louise Matsakis / Wired: Facebook plans to launch Athena, likely a constellation of small internet-delivering satellites, in early 2019, after it downgraded its drone project

Bloomberg: Inside state-sponsored trolling efforts that combine virtual hate mobs, surveillance, and misinformation to silence critical voices and spread disinformation  —  Sitting cross-legged on a

Dana Rubinstein / Politico: New York State labor review board makes a final ruling that three former Uber drivers were Uber employees for the purposes

Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: Facebook suspends marketing analytics company Crimson Hexagon which boasts of having 1T public posts from social media, after questions

Javed Anwer / India Today: Indian telecoms regulator mandates that all smartphone users should be able to install its anti-spam app by January; iPhone could

Erica Werner / Washington Post: US lawmakers drop provision that blocked lifting of ZTE sanctions, strengthen CFIUS authority to block Chinese investments in a compromise

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: Lyft says it will enhance its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with