📱 My own phone is now spam texting me

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My own phone number is now spam texting me. This morning, I received a very blatant spam text offering me “a little gift” for supposedly paying my phone bill. Normally I'd groan, roll my eyes, and quickly delete such a thing, but there was something different about this… (Chris Welch / The Verge)

Patrick Monahan @pattymo

Just got one of these. Insanely great work by everyone involved

The Verge @verge

My own phone number is now spam texting me https://t.co/zeTXkRlczx https://t.co/BMHMOwb55K

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FedEx Says Fred Smith to Step Aside as CEO, Remain Executive Chairman. FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith is stepping down as chief executive of the company he started more than 50 years ago with a handful of planes and built into a global delivery network that moves millions of packages a day. Mr. Smith, 77 years old, is… (Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal)

Paul Berger @pdberger

Mr. Smith invented the concept of express delivery when he founded Federal Express in 1971 by forming an airline network that flew time-critical packages overnight. Via ⁦@pziobro⁩.

wsj.comFedEx Says Fred Smith to Step Aside as CEO, Remain Executive ChairmanRaj Subramaniam, the current president and COO, is set to take over leadership of the global delivery network that moves millions of packages a day.

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Leaked Details of the Lapsus$ Hack Make Okta's Slow Response Look More Bizarre. In the week since the digital extortion group Lapsus$ first revealed that it had breached the identity management platform Okta through one of the company's subprocessors, customers and organizations across the tech industry have been scrambling to… (Lily Hay Newman / WIRED)

Lily Hay Newman @lilyhnewman

just continues to be extremely unclear why Okta and its sub-processor Sitel apparently didn't have a greater sense of urgency about investigating this breach and its implications for their customers

wired.comLeaked Details of the Lapsus$ Hack Make Okta’s Slow Response Look More BizarreDocuments shed some light on how Okta and its subprocessor Sitel reacted to a breach, but they don’t explain the apparent lack of urgency.

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Environmental Groups Pressure Bitcoin Community to Lower Energy Use. A consortium of environmental groups launched a campaign on Monday seeking to change bitcoin's code to decrease its energy use, which has grown substantially in the past few years. Bitcoin is popular among some investors, but its energy use has… (Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal)

Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen is bankrolling a $5 million ad campaign calling on Bitcoin-friendly CEOs to switch the network to proof of stake. Perhaps he prefers a world where CEOs can centrally control the future of a cryptocurrency network

wsj.comEnvironmental Groups Pressure Bitcoin Community to Lower Energy UseA new campaign aims to persuade mining companies, investors software developers and others that the cryptocurrency would benefit from greener practices.

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A Bookstore Revival Channels Nostalgia for Big Box Chains. Fond feelings for the big chains of the ‘90s help to explain a renaissance for mall bookstores in the U.S. (Alexandra Lange / Bloomberg)

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley

"It was a big deal for a town to get a Borders, in the same way, and with many of the same class markers, as it is a big deal for a town to get a Trader Joe’s or a Whole Foods today." Love this appreciation of the mall bookstore by @LangeAlexandra

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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