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KHALID: For other people, the choice depends on where the messaging is happening and who they're messaging with. LAURA JOHNSON: In particular, Ijeoma Oluo and her fabulous book, 'So You Want To Talk About Race' - she made me realize that our culture tends to default to whiteness, and that yellow emoji is white. KHALID: Laura Johnson from Austin, Texas, says she used to think the yellow emoji was neutral, but then she started reading a book that made her rethink that view. But if I use a darker color emoji, which maybe more closely matches what I see when I look at my whole family, it's not what the world sees, and people tend to judge that. RACELA: I present is very pale, very light skinned, and if I use the white emoji, I feel like I'm betraying the part of myself that's Filipino.

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KHALID: Racela says he usually goes with the yellow emoji because it does it represent any specific ethnicity or skin tone. I am three-quarters white, but I'm also a quarter Filipino. HEATH RACELA: This is Heath Racela in Littleton, Mass. I posted about it on Twitter this week where I learned clearly this was not an isolated obsession.

I, too, have long been curious and a bit confused by the race politics of emojis. She says she's not offended when a non-brown friend uses a brown emoji, but would like to understand why. She's Black and originally from California. KHALID: That's Sarai Cole from Berlin, Germany. I have some friends who use the brown ones, too, but they are not brown themselves. SARAI COLE: I use the brown one that matches me.

There's the 'Simpsons' yellow version and then five different skin tone options. KHALID: But it's not that simple because there's not just one thumbs up option. (SOUNDBITE OF IMESSAGE NOTIFICATION SOUND) And I want to reply with a simple thumbs up emoji. The hacker reportedly said he broke into the Uber systems because 'they had weak security'.So a lot of times I find myself texting a friend. We are in touch with law enforcement and will post additional updates here as they become available,' Uber posted in a tweet.Īn Uber employee posted that they were told to stop using Slack as 'anytime I request a website, I am taken to a page with a pornographic image' and the message 'f*** you wankers'. 'We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident.

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Uber said in a statement that it was investigating a 'cybersecurity incident' while it took Slack offline for employees. One unnamed Uber employee told bug bounty hunter and security engineer Sam Curry that staff were interacting with the hacker thinking 'they were playing a joke'. Some employees even responded to the hacker with emoji like sirens and popcorn, as well as the 'it's happening' GIF. The Slack message from the alleged hacker 'was so brazen that many Uber employees appear to have initially thought it was a joke', reports The Washington Post. The hacker then listed confidential company information and posted a hashtag saying that Uber 'underpays its drivers'. 'I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach,' screenshots of the message circulating on Twitter read. The hacker made himself known to Uber employees by posting a message on the company's internal communication system Slack. San Francisco, Sep 16 (IANS): An 18-year-old hacker has broken into the internal systems of Uber, reaching company tools including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, and employees thought someone was playing a prank.