• Murphy's Law has rarely been more fully in display than in the recent Facebook security breach.  (TechDirt)
  
  Not only did a very simple trick allow you to view private details of other users' accounts, it let you impersonate those accounts.
  
  If you used Facebook to sign in to other services, it let people sign in as you on those services.
  
  And if you tried to post a warning about this to your friends on Facebook, your post was filtered out by the automated security system.
  
  This is a platform used by more than a billion people.
  
  
• Elon Musk has settled with the SEC, will step down as chairman of Tesla and pay a fine, but remain a board member and CEO  (TechCrunch)
  
  This seems appropriate.
  
  
• There is something in the water in Rhode Island.  (NPR)
  
  
• A federal judge has ruled against a joint state and federal police task force suing Facebook for access to Messenger messages.  (Reuters)
  
  Of course, they could have just waltzed right in and downloaded them anyway, making it all a bit pointless.
  
  
• In Australia?  Need a new laptop?
  
  The Lenovo E485 is $400 off - meaning $100 off the launch price (which to be fair was a great price) - and SSD upgrades are also $50 off, so with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD it's currently a very reasonable A$1124.
  
  The HP Spectre X2 is still on sale for A$1350 for the next week (while stocks last, but it is currently in stock), including 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, detachable keyboard and pen.  Well worth a look if you were considering a Microsoft Surface Pro.

• Ashe Schow dissects what is going on in US social media and politics right now, and it ain't pretty.  (Daily Wire)
  
  Sound article, though.  Read, as they say, the whole thing.
  
  
• Jonah Goldberg is more focused on the politics but also addresses the social media aspects of the present moral panic.

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