This Week in Tech 780

• Here's how the Twitter hack happened
• Tik Tok hysteria - xenophobia or common sense?
•  EARN IT and LAED acts want to eliminate encryption
•  Cloudflare outage takes down a huge swath of the internet
•  "Master," "Slave," "Blacklist" terms on the outs at Apple, Linux, and others
•  Trump expands the CIA's cyberwarfare authority
•  Google spends $10 billion on India, half of that in Jio
•  Amazon Dash Cart checks your groceries out for you
•  World Emoji Day celebrates the new Emoji coming in 2020
• Who is "Kirk," the person behind the Twitter hack? How long have they had access?
•  What should the response to the Twitter hack be?
• Instagram's Tik Tok clone Reels launches in August
•  As Tik Tok rises, Quibi falls
•  Google should be pushing contactless payments more
• Hong Kong VPNs leak user data
•  EU Court shuts down EU - US data transfer agreement
• Grant Imahara dead at 49

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Links

• The Twitter Hack, Twitter Failures, Facebook and TikTok – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can’t Tweet | WIRED
• Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside - The New York Times
• Twitter: ‘An Update on Our Security Incident’
• Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? — Krebs on Security
• The Twitter Hack — What exactly happened? | by Lucky225 | Jul, 2020 | Medium
• U.S. TikTok Hysteria Teeters Toward The Idiotic | Techdirt
• The TikTok War – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Trump Campaign Urges Supporters to Back TikTok Ban in Online Ads
• Instagram confirms its TikTok rival, Reels, will launch in the US in early August | TechCrunch
• What EARN IT and LAED mean for encryption
• Secret Trump order gives CIA more powers to launch cyberattacks - added by Seth
• Flash VPN, UFO VPN, and five other services leaked 1.2TB of private information
• Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020