It’s never great when a company has a data breach and IP is stolen – but perhaps this one isn’t so bad for Netflix after all

If crooks can get a new SIM issued in your name, they take over your phone number and your text messages… and your phone goes dead.

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

Full Optimizer and its little brother, Full Optimizer Lite, don’t optimize your phone – instead they aggressively deliver ads. Here’s what SophosLabs has learned about these apps

Faces scraped from Tinder were being used to train artificial intelligence, according to the researcher

Etsy is saying goodbye to CEO Chad Dickerson and CTO John Allspaw, and hello to former Skype and Evite CEO Josh Silverman and VP of Engineering Mike Brittain. “The Board decided that it was time for new leadership to take…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: At its Microsoft EDU event in New York City today, the company announced it is bringing Microsoft Office to the Windows Store. We’re talking about the full Win32 version of Office —…

According to CNBC, “Two Tesla executives have been named as directors of a company called Redwood Materials, which appears to focus on technology to recycle and reuse manufacturing materials.” From the report: Jeffrey Straubel, chief technical officer, and Andrew Stevenson,…

An 18-year-old student from Mexico has won the top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) for his invention of a bra that can help in the early detection of breast cancer. “The bra, otherwise known as EVA, was…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just a week into his position, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Monday a rollback of nutrition standards for school meals, previously championed by former First Lady Michelle Obama as…