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Samsung can't come up for air, the mental gymnastics of defending Peter Thiel, and "unlimited" data. Our weekly tech news quiz.

Do You Know What Happened In Tech The Week Of October 16?

All US airlines have banned the phone on planes, which prompted [Samsung to set up airport exchange stations](https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/samsung-galaxy-note7-recall-stations-in-airports). Oh, and three New Jersey Note7 owners have started the process of filing a class action lawsuit against Samsung. Yikes dot com.

All of these things happened. What a mess.

The Samsung saga continues \*long sigh.\* What happened now?

In a [leaked internal Facebook post](https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/mark-zuckerberg-defends-peter-thiel-in-leaked-facebook-post), Mark Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook can't simultaneously prioritize diversity and ostracize supporters of a major party's nominee. Thiel was one of the first investors in Facebook and has been a longtime board member at the social network.

Zuck came to Thiel's defense

Much of Silicon Valley wasn't happy with Peter Thiel's $1.25 million donation to Donald Trump's campaign, but who defended him?

And wow did the FCC ever rule against them. A [$48 million fine](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hamzashaban/regulators-fine-t-mobile-48-million-for-misleading-unlimited) is stiff.

T-Mobile

This week, the FCC fined which wireless carrier for imposing hidden limits on "unlimited" data?

They did a pretty good job of copying the feel of Google. That's how the [hackers got access](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/meet-fancy-bear-the-russian-group-hacking-the-us-election) to so many emails.

Gmail password forms

It came to light this week that Russian hackers used what to infiltrate the Democratic National Convention's emails?

From BuzzFeed News' Charlie Warzel: "The yearlong study found [roughly 2.6 million anti-Semitic tweets](https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/anti-defamation-league-uptick-anti-semitic-tweets), creating more than 10 billion impressions across the web. Of those tweets, 19,253 were directed at journalists."

There's been a lot more anti-Semitism on Twitter recently, and it targets journalists especially.

The Anti-Defamation League released a report this week that found a marked uptick in what specific type of abuse on Twitter?

The [practice is already illegal in New York and San Francisco](https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/airbnb-bans-multiple-listings), but this week marks the first time home-sharing company will prevent homeowners from doing it using the design of the platform.

Single owners won't be able to list multiple homes on AirBnb in NY and SF.

Airbnb said this week it will start policing which practice on its platform?

Spotify, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Github, Netflix, PayPal, SoundCloud, Shopify, and others were affected. [BuzzFeed News' Sheera Frenkel](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/denial-of-service-attack-dyn?utm_term=.imR6mzM7R#.kdwlm2oen): "The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms a company’s servers with traffic from multiple sources to make online service unavailable. DNS or Domain Name System is the internet’s system for converting alphabetic names of websites — the ones humans use — into machine-friendly IP addresses which direct users’ internet connection to the correct website. By attacking a DNS host, such as Dyn, they are essentially attacking the internet’s ability to route users to the correct webpage."

Multiple massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks hit Dyn

A major hack this week disabled nearly a dozen major websites in the US by targeting what?

You'd rather read a book about Medieval torture than the tech news.

Bye.

You know the latest technology news, for the most part. You probably have the second-latest iPhone.

You keep up.

You're the early adopter among your friends. You're probably living your best life in Silicon Valley. Congratulations!

You're part of the technorati.

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