Good morning, Austin! We've got the best tech news from across the interwebs to start your Monday off right:
Apparently being the CEO of Facebook doesn't spare you from the humbling experience of having your social media accounts hacked. Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked over the weekend. A recent LinkedIn dump of millions of hacked passwords from 2012 is to blame, which is a good reminder to all of us that it's time to change your passwords.
After the news on Friday that Nest's CEO will be leaving the company, Recode takes a look at who his replacement is. (Reminder: Nest is owned by Alphabet.)
Fawaz's background is in the cable and telecommunications industry, where his job title was chief technology officer.
And if you want to catch up on the Nest drama, Ars Technica has a good piece detailing what happened.
The U.S. Department of Defense has signed a seven-year contract with Abu Dhabi-based Globalfoundries Inc. to supply microchips used in U.S. spy satellites, missiles and combat jets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
International Business Machines Corp. had been a near-monopoly supplier of chips to the Pentagon for a decade, the Journal reports, and paid Globalfoundries last year to take over its chip plants.
Over the weekend NPR aired an interesting story about an Atlanta program called Code Start that teaches low-income students - who are predominantly African-American - how to code.
The free, year-long training program is for anyone with a high school diploma or GED. Students who have obtained a college degree aren't eligible.
Founder Rodney Sampson told NPR the program is "an experiment" to see if disconnected youth who have been "labeled by the system" can become junior level software engineers.
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