Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, MyFitnessPal customer data was breached by hackers in February, China's Tiangong-1 space station is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry over the weekend, a leaked 2016 Facebook memo discusses questionable growth practices and more.

Hackers have breached hugely popular nutrition and fitness tracking site MyFitnessPal, obtaining usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords for an estimated 150 million accounts (The Verge). MyFitnessPal owner Under Armour said in a statement that: "On March 25, the MyFitnessPal team became aware that an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts in late February 2018." Payment card data was not included but users are urged to change their passwords as soon as possible.


China's Tiangong-1 space station is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, with the most likely estimated time being 14:00 GMT (13:00 BST) on Sunday, April 1 (BBC News). According to tracking and analysis coordinated by the European Space Agency, the spacecraft will "mostly burn up" on reentry, while any remaining debris is expected to fall into the sea. The space lab was originally to have made a controlled reentry and been steered towards an uninhabited region of the Southern Ocean, but critical communication links were severed in 2016, making this impossible.

A leaked internal memo obtained by Buzzfeed has revealed that Facebook's senior staff have been considering the ethical consequences of the company's growth-at-any-cost philosophy since at least 2016. On June 18 of that year, Facebook vice President Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth considers the "ugly" consequences of the company's mission: "Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools… We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in." Bosworth has said that the memo, which was controversial among staff, was deliberately provocative.

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Businesses, organisations and individuals resident in the UK will no longer be able to register or renew .eu domain names after Brexit (The Register). The unprecedented announcement from the European Commission also indicates that the EURid registry would be "entitled to revoke such domain names on its own initiative" – until now, common practice has been for rights to already registered domains to stay with their registrants, even if the top level domain extension goes out of use. A little over 317,000 .eu domains are held by UK registrants – about 10 per cent of the total – and EURid says that it was not consulted ahead of the EC's decision.

Humble is giving away Spec Ops: The Line, a third-person military shooter that takes a significantly darker look at the realities of modern warfare than its genre-mates (Rock, Paper, Shotgun). The game is available for Windows, Linux and macOS, and the offer extends until 19:00 BST on Saturday, April 1.

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