10 things in tech you need to know today, October 3

Amazon announced it’s
raising its minimum wage.
Reuters

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

1. 
   Amazon announced it is raising its minimum wage to
   $15. The company will raise its minimum wage from
   November 1, with CEO Jeff Bezos saying the company
   had “listened to our critics.”
2. 
   Facebook is warning its first business customers that hackers
   may have obtained their internal data, a stunning security
   lapse for a business-focused product. Some of
   the people potentially impacted by Facebooks latest massive
   security breach are the earliest business customers of its
   corporate chat app Workplace, according to emails viewed by
   Business Insider.
3. 
   Facebook says it hasn’t seen any evidence that hackers used
   stolen keys to access users’ Tinder, Spotify, or Instagram
   accounts. Facebook says it can’t find any evidence
   that the hackers who compromised 50 million users’ accounts
   last week also used stolen “keys” to break into victims’
   accounts on other apps and services.
4. 
   Apple CEO Tim Cook said that it’s a “challenge” getting
   Congress up to speed on the need for new privacy
   regulations. Cook touted Apple’s restraint in
   terms of collecting information on its users in a new
   interview, and said he couldn’t imagine one of his successors
   steering the company in a different direction when it comes to
   user privacy.
5. 
   Microsoft announced three new premium Surface computers and a
   pair of headphones. Microsoft unveiled a
   four-pack of new Surface gadgets at an event in New York City
   on Tuesday.
6. 
   Bernie Sanders praised Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for raising the
   company’s minimum wage. The Democratic senator has
   been an outspoken critic of Amazon and Bezos in the past,
   but on Tuesday he said he wants to give “credit where credit is
   due.”
7. 
   Tim Cook says Apple banned Alex Jones because it curates
   content, not because of politics. Cook denied
   that the decision was coordinated with other tech firms, some
   of which removed Jones from their services soon after Apple
   did.
8. 
   Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to turn a funeral home where
   she held wild Halloween parties into a private women’s
   club. Residents in the area were not happy
   when Mayer threw the parties, and some are not any happier with
   the tech executive’s newest idea.
9. 
   A new shortcut for iPhones can automatically record the
   police. A big new feature for iPhones this
   year is Shortcuts, an app that lets you write scripts for the
   iPhone, and one widely shared shortcut is called Police, which
   records police interactions and texts a predetermined contact
   that you’ve been pulled over.
10. 
    Amazon quietly ended its year-old program that was supposed to
    be like a better vending machine. Amazon
    announced Instant Pickup in August 2017, offering instant
    purchasing much like a vending machine, but has now quietly
    ended the program.

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