10 things in tech you need to know today

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. The founder of online messaging board 8chan, Fredrick Brennan, has called for the site to be shut down after it was linked to three mass shootings this year. In the latest incident, the suspected El Paso shooter is believed to have posted a white nationalist 'manifesto' on the site ahead of the crime.
2. Internet infrastructure site Cloudflare announced late Sunday that it would pull services to 8chan following the El Paso shooting. It's a u-turn for Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince who earlier on Sunday told The Guardian that the site generally had a policy of providing services to every site, no matter how hateful.
3. In a 'Fox & Friends' segment, Texas' Lieutenant Governor suggested violent video games and a lack of prayer in schools could be factors in the El Paso mass shooting. The lieutenant governor called on the federal government to "do something about the video games industry", despite minimal proof games are linked to real-world violence.
4. Google has temporarily stopped contractors from listening to Assistant recordings around the world, Business Insider has learned, after the company was made aware of leaked data from a third-party reviewer in the Netherlands. The decision comes as a result of a July report in which a Dutch media outlet used leaked audio snippets to show that some Google Assistant users had been recorded by their devices unknowingly.
5. Amazon will give people the option of disabling human reviews of Alexa recordings, Bloomberg reported. That's after the outlet reported that thousands of Amazon employees were listening in to Alexa recordings in order to improve the software.
6. Instagram and WhatsApp are getting rebranded to "Instagram from Facebook" and "WhatsApp from Facebook." The new names will show up in app stores and inside the apps.
7. Private contact information for over 2,000 game industry journalists, analysts, and YouTube creators had been accessible online in plain text on the website of the popular gaming conference, E3.  The information included names, home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of press members who attended the annual conference this June.
8. Food delivery firm DoorDash announced Thursday that it plans to buy competing delivery company Caviar from Square in a $410 million cash-and-stock deal. The acquisition will give DoorDash a big increase in market share in some key cities.
9. The SEC, in a recent legal filing, alleges that former Silicon Valley VC Mike Rothenberg misappropriated roughly $19 million in investor funds. The filing comes a year after Rothenberg settled SEC charges that he diverted investor funds, in a deal that barred Rothenberg from the investment and brokerage advisory business for five years.
10. Peter Thiel turned both barrels on Silicon Valley in a blistering New York Times op-ed on Thursday. The tech billionaire said the tech scene is marked by an "extreme strain of parochialism" and is a place where people have done "exceedingly well for themselves" while others have suffered.
     

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