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2. ABT, ALR:  $ALR Abbott $ABT, Alere Advance Contentious Merger With Reduced Price – WSJ

3. STRP, T, VZ:  $STRP Verizon $VZ considering topping AT&T’s $T bid for Straight Path: sources – Reuters

4. BABA, MGI:  $MGI Ant Financial $BABA Raises MoneyGram Bid 36% to Fend Off Euronet – BBG

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6. MTB:  $MTB M&T Bank Q1 Earnings Beat on Higher Revenues – Zacks

7. AMD:  $AMD As Good as It Gets at AMD? – WSJ

8. MCD:  $MCD Wells Fargo Upgrades McDonald’s to Outperform

9. AAPL:  $AAPL Apple’s Secret Car Project Ramps Up as iPhone Prep Continues – Fortune

10. BP:  $BP BP Well in Alaska Stops Leaking Oil, Continues to Release Gas – WSJ

11. JBHT:  $JBHT JB Hunt tops 1Q profit forecasts – AP

12. KHC, MDLZ: $MDLZ Ackman halts Kraft Heinz’s $KHC attempt to buy snack giant – NYPost

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14. AEHR: $AEHR Aehr Test Systems Announces Underwriter’s Exercise of Over-allotment Option in Public Offering

15. HNR:  $HNR Harvest Natural Resources sells assets in Gabon, begins dissolution – Feul Fix

16. INCY, LLY:  $INCY Eli Lilly $LLY and Incyte stock drops after FDA fails to approve rheumatoid arthritis drug – MW

17. BAX:  $BAX Baxter Faces Federal Criminal Inquiry Into IV Saline Sales – Fox Biz

18. LNCE:  $LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Announces CEO Transition & Reports Prelim 1st Quarter 2017 Financial Results – GN

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1. MCD:$MCD Wells Fargo Upgrades McDonald’s to Outperform

2. PGRE:Evercore ISI Upgrades Paramount Group $PGRE to Outperform

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3. NFLX:$NFLX EARNINGS AFTER THE CLOSE TODAY! Most millennials don’t want to pay for Netflix

4. CBLI:$CBLI Announces EMA Positive Opinion Regarding the Entolimod Pediatric Investigation Plan

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6. INCY:BMO:” $INCY Cutting PT to $144 from $170 on Baricitinib CRL; Maintain Outperform; Reducing peak sales estimates to ~$3.25bn from $4.5bn.”

7. CPST:Capstone Turbine Reports Selected Preliminary Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2017 Financial Results

1. Ackman halts Kraft Heinz’s attempt to buy snack giant

2. Gilead, Pfizer, Abbvie Stand to Gain from Lilly, Incyte Rheumatoid Arthritis Pill Setback

1. This is definitely the most relevant dump from #ShadowBrokers – Hacking SWIFT is BIG DEAL. Here is why:

If the US had a specific target in the financial system NSA penetration offers redundancy and other options than merely relying upon good faith compliance procedures standard diplomatic requests or collaborating with SWIFT Service Bureau.

This would make a lot of sense that the NSA compromise this specific SWIFT Service Bureau for laundering AML reasons in order to retrieve ties with terrorists groups.

Reminder from Ned Pyle Program Manager at MicrosoftIf you are using Windows and above you can disable SMB as mentioned on the MSDN until Microsoft issues official patches.

2. “I don’t think I have ever seen so much exploits and 0day [exploits] released at one time in my entire life.”

The vulnerable Windows versions ran more than percent of desktop computers surfing the web last month according to estimates from the tracking firm Net Market Share.

The crown jewel of the implant collection appears to be a program named FUZZBUNCH which essentially automates the deployment of NSA malware and would allow a member of Tailored Access Operations group to more easily infect a target from their desk.

A Microsoft spokesperson told The Intercept are reviewing the report and will take the necessary actions to protect our We asked Microsoft if the NSA at any point offered to provide information that would help protect Windows users from these attacks given that the leak has been threatened since August to which they replied focus at this time is reviewing the current The company later clarified that this time other than reporters no individual or organization has contacted us in relation to the materials released by Shadow.

3. In case you are wondering the NSA hacking tools that The Shadow Brokers dumped today were probably worth $2 million.

More details can be found here and the company recommends updating to a supported version of Windows and downloading security fixes.

The fuckers burned millions with one zip file Bekrar who the CEO and founder of Zerodium told Motherboard in an online chat.

Bekrar explained if he had to buy them all the exploits codenamed ETERNAL the ones that attack the SMB network protocol were worth more than each.

4. .@nitashatiku has written the best thing on Zuckerberg’s attempt shift his public image:

Katie Jacobs Stanton a former Twitter executive who also worked as director of citizen participation under Obama told BuzzFeed News that after years of measuring success on growth rates monthly active users and the efficiency of hiring fewer employees the industry is looking around and wondering how it got here.

After the launch of CZI TheNew Yorker wrote that charitable giving on this scale makes the inequalities of modern capitalism somewhat more Tech columnist David Pogue shared a similar sentiment except a decade earlier declaring that he could no longer consider the founder of Microsoft a ruthless monopolist after he donated of his fortune.

In interviews with BuzzFeed News mentors including Hoffman SV Angel founder Ron Conway and early Facebook employee Matt Cohler who is now a partner at Benchmark Capital all argued that recent likability blitz is genuine part of a continuous evolution brought on by increased maturity acceptance of responsibility and becoming a dad.

5. My story about Mark Zuckerberg’s public image transformation, consolidating power, and Silicon Valley wokeness

Katie Jacobs Stanton a former Twitter executive who also worked as director of citizen participation under Obama told BuzzFeed News that after years of measuring success on growth rates monthly active users and the efficiency of hiring fewer employees the industry is looking around and wondering how it got here.

After the launch of CZI TheNew Yorker wrote that charitable giving on this scale makes the inequalities of modern capitalism somewhat more Tech columnist David Pogue shared a similar sentiment except a decade earlier declaring that he could no longer consider the founder of Microsoft a ruthless monopolist after he donated of his fortune.

In interviews with BuzzFeed News mentors including Hoffman SV Angel founder Ron Conway and early Facebook employee Matt Cohler who is now a partner at Benchmark Capital all argued that recent likability blitz is genuine part of a continuous evolution brought on by increased maturity acceptance of responsibility and becoming a dad.

6. Documents obtained by the New York Times show that New York’s anti-Airbnb law was part of a hotel industry plan:

The association claimed legal and regulatory victories last year in Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as in states like Virginia Tennessee and Utah where laws were being passed to restrict Airbnb activity.

are trying to showcase and bust the myth that Airbnb supports mom and pop and helps them make extra money Flanagan of the American Hotel and Lodging Association said.

This year the association plans to fund more research and roll out a testimonial campaign of people hurt by home sharing provide a counterweight to strategy of presenting a unified face according to the documents.

7. Fascinating HN tidbit on how Taylor taught people at PARC to disagree.

8. New: Microsoft quietly patched NSA’s hacking tools back in March, but didn’t acknowledge the source of the patches.

A spokesperson said in an email in the middle of the night that the company has investigated and confirmed that the exploits disclosed by the Shadow Brokers have already been addressed by previous updates to our supported products.

This entire saga all started Friday after a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers released tools designed to target Windows PCs and servers along with presentations and files purporting to detail the agency methods of carrying out clandestine surveillance.

He suggested that the NSA had been in contact directly about the vulnerabilities which it lost control of when the Shadow Brokers obtained a copy of the agency hacking toolkit and knew which exploits were at risk as early as January.

9. RIP Bob Taylor, instrumental in creating so much of modern computing. The Internet, desktops, whole paradigms.

Taylor decided to pump more money into the work and the financial infusion led directly to invention of the mouse which would be instrumental in the design of both Macintosh and Microsoft computers.

way you look at it from the internet to launching the personal computer revolution Bob Taylor was a key architect of our modern world said Leslie Berlin a historian at the Stanford University Silicon Valley Archives project.

At NASA as the newly elected Kennedy administration was putting the nation on a path to the moon Taylor became a friend and protégé of Licklider a psychologist and computer scientist who had written a pioneering paper titled.

10. “The lack of credit… it’s uncommon and generating speculation that the reporters were tied to the NSA.”

That because the critical vulnerabilities for four exploits previously believed to be zerodays were patched in March exactly one month before a group called Shadow Brokers published Friday latest installment of attacks.

The revelation that none of the highly advanced exploits work against supported Microsoft products brings a measure of relief to some of the more dire warnings sounded hours earlier.

Computers in larger organizations however can often remain two or more months behind Microsoft patch schedule as administrators test the updates to ensure they compatible with intranets and other internal systems.