| Facebook admits to privacy bug, the fallout continues from Jack Dorsey's Myanmar visit and IMAX pulls the plug on its VR arcades. Here's your Daily Crunch for December 14, 2018. 1. Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users' unposted photos to apps The bug allowed apps that users had approved to pull their timeline photos to also receive their Facebook Stories, Marketplace photos and — most worryingly — photos they'd uploaded to Facebook but never shared. Facebook says the bug ran for 12 days, from September 13 to September 25. The company says it will provide tools next week for app developers to check if they were impacted, and it will work with them to delete photos. It also plans to notify people it suspects may have been impacted by the bug. 
2. Jack Dorsey and Twitter ignored opportunity to meet with civic group on Myanmar issues A loose group of six companies in Myanmar has engaged with Facebook in a bid to help improve the situation around usage of its services in the country, and key members of that alliance reached out to Dorsey and the company's public policy contacts when they learned the CEO was visiting Myanmar. The DMs went unread. 3. They scaled YouTube — now they'll shard everyone with PlanetScale When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed-fund a database startup, you know there's something special going on under the hood. 4. IMAX pulls the plug on its dream of VR arcades The company announced in an SEC filing that it will be shutting down its three remaining virtual reality centers, including its flagship location in Los Angeles. 5. US intelligence community says quantum computing and AI pose an 'emerging threat' to national security Agnostic technologies like encryption, autonomous and unmanned systems, AI and quantum computing rank at the top of the agencies' "worry list" for fears that they could be used to cause harm, rather than advance society. 6. A former Ofo exec is launching his own scooter startup Dott, headquartered in Amsterdam, has raised €20 million. It's using the capital to launch in several cities across Europe, beginning with an early 2019 e-scooter pilot at Station F, a startup campus in Paris. 7. UK video games workers unionize over 'wide-scale exploitation' and diversity issues The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain said it's setting up a union branch for games workers, with the aim of tackling what it dubs the "wide-scale exploitation" of video games workers. | 
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