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Your Facebook Pokes Are Stored For Two Days, Then Their Encryption Keys Are Deleted — Facebook Poke messages self-destruct after a few seconds, but is Facebook saving these potentially embarrassing photos and videos? No. It's deleting them. Pokes are encrypted, and Facebook deletes … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg Is The Voice Behind The “Poke” Notification Sound And Wrote Code For The App — Mark Zuckerberg invented Poking, one of Facebook's earliest features, so it's fitting he was part of the small team that built the new Poke app over the last 12 days.
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Hacker, Verizon duel over customer record claims — Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal told ZDNet in an emailed statement: “We have examined the posted data and we have confirmed that it is not Verizon Wireless customer data. Our systems have not been hacked.”
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Verizon denies hacker's claims of swiping customer records, says leaked data is not from its servers — A self-proclaimed hacker going by the name TibitXimer on Saturday leaked some 300,000 Verizon Wireless customer records after breaching the company's security systems.
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The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed — The New York Times instituted a paywall on its website last year, a controversial move that has yielded great results. — Ever since the New York Times rolled out its so-called paywall in March 2011, a perennial dispute has waged.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively — Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser. As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled …
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Intellectual Ventures: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal — Back in 2010, we wrote about a report suggesting that Intellectual Ventures was using somewhere around 1000 shell companies to hide many of its patent shakedown attempts. For years, IV itself liked …
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Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire — Nicholas Woodman, avid surfer and GoPro founder, is now a billionaire. (Photo courtesy of GoPro) — GoPro cameras have become the go-to item for filming extreme sports. The small, high quality video cameras …
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Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption — Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn't start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly in the area of publishing.| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Microsoft Releases Wordament, the First iPhone Game with Xbox Live Achievements — Microsoft has released a game tonight called Wordament for the iPhone. The game has been a popular Windows Phone game, but is now also available on iOS. Wordament was originally a side-project … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Mozilla backpedals on Firefox 64-bit for Windows, will keep nightly builds coming after all — Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day. After what he referred to as …
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