A plot to groom Twitter spies

Greetings, TicToc readers! In this edition: New quid pro quo details, MLK name voted off famous street and driving with X-ray vision. U.S. claims Saudi-Twitter spy plot The DOJ on Wednesday charged two ex-Twitter employees and a Saudi national with helping Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents on the platform. The employees, Ali Alzabarah of Saudi Arabia and Ahmad Abouammo of Seattle, helped a third Saudi, Ahmed Almutairi, "gain access without authorization" and "mine internal systems for personal information about known Saudi critics and thousands of other Twitter users," a criminal complaint said. All three were charged with acting as illegal agents of a foreign government. Twitter said it restricts sensitive information to "a limited group of trained and vetted employees," and applauded the DOJ's actions. $ignificant figures 96,000. Uber is facing a new lawsuit from tens of thousands of New York City taxi drivers who say the company hasn't repaid taxes it deducted from drivers' cut of fares. $27 billion. Xerox is considering a cash-stock takeover of PC giant HP, a deal that would combine two fading American tech icons. 70%. Kansas City, Missouri, voters overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name from a historic boulevard and reverting to The Paseo. Highly quotable "Clear understanding." Top U.S. envoy William Taylor knew of the Ukraine quid pro quo and sent a cable "describing the folly I saw" to Mike Pompeo, new transcripts showed. "OK, Boomer." 25-year-old New Zealand Green Party MP Chloe Swarbrick shut down a heckler during her speech about climate change. "Integrity in the process." Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin asked for a recanvass of vote totals that show Democrat Andy Beshear ahead by about 5,000 votes with all precincts reporting. This is not normal Misinformation rising. An advocacy group tracked the 100 most popular false news stories between Jan. 1- Oct. 1 and found the fake stories were posted 2.3 million times with 158.9 million views and 8.9 million likes, comments and shares. The future is now X-ray vision? A Pennsylvania middle schooler came up with a possible fix for blind spots—and won $25,000 for it—by linking a webcam outside a car with a projector that relays a live feed inside. What's good Cha-ching. A University of Nevada student won free tuition for a year after sinking a half-court shot during the season opener. Amazingly, the same thing happened at the University of Oklahoma on the same night. Now that you're caught up... Tell your friends to sign up to receive our newsletter five days a week, and follow us on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Thanks for reading! -Andrew Mach FOLLOW US SEND TO A FRIEND You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's TicToc Tonight newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022