Global 'ransomware' hack spreads; Obamacare repeal dealt another setback

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A cyber attack that began in Ukraine spread across the globe, hitting 12,500 machines and some pretty big companies, including Merck, Mondelez and WPP. The infection uses a code named “Eternal Blue,” believed to be stolen from the NSA and used in last month’s much-more-severe WannaCry attack. Hackers are demanding a $300 in Bitcoin in this latest ransomware attack. Here's what the New York Times says we know, and don't. #Petrwrap

President Trump pressed GOP senators after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote on an Obamacare replacement bill and declared a finished product "very close." The Senate bill lost support after the Congressional Budget Office said it would result in 22 million fewer insured than under current law. But a similar bill passed the House after intense negotiations there brought it back from the dead. #GOPDelay

Toshiba is suing Western Digital for $1 billion in what has become an ugly family affair. The conflict is over the sale of its chip unit, part of an "effort to repair its battered finances" as the New York Times puts it. But: The company missed a self-imposed deadline to close with its preferred buyer. Western Digital – joint owner of a Toshiba chip subsidiary – asserts Toshiba can't sell without its permission, and is itself putting together a bid. Now Toshiba is suing to get Western Digital off its back. #ToshibaSuesWesternDigital

Meal delivery service Blue Apron slashed its expected IPO price from $15-$17 a share to $10-$11. "It's likely Amazon spoiled this party," CNBC reports, as the startup announced it would go public only a couple of weeks before the e-tail giant said it would buy Whole Foods. $APRN officially prices tonight and begins NYSE trading Thursday.

A college degree isn’t everything. An increasing number of companies, in tech especially, are hiring for skills and not credentials and trusting what they call “middle-skill” or “new collar” jobs — essentially mid-level white collar roles in software development, cybersecurity, etc. — to professionals without a degree. The New York Times spoke to a few. Robert Reich, former Labor secretary, calls it a desperately needed “second route to the middle class for people without four-year college degrees, as manufacturing once was.” #NewCollarWorkers

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