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Facebook's Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does — It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that “personal data isn't safe there.”
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Protecting People On Facebook — Facebook, like every significant internet service, is frequently targeted by those who want to disrupt or access our data and infrastructure. As such, we invest heavily in preventing, detecting, and responding to threats that target our infrastructure …
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Microsoft job postings confirm more about Windows and Windows Phone Blue — Summary: A new Microsoft job posting verifies that Windows Blue will include user experience improvements, not just under-the-covers interface tweaks. Bonus: There's a reference to ‘Windows Phone Blue’ on Microsoft's job site, too.
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When Mayer Called Yahoo's Mobile Revenue “Nascent,” She Wasn't Kidding (And Here's the Actual Number She Left Out) — On Yahoo's recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company's mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier … | Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Google Takeout now offering Blogger and Google+ Page exports — Google Takeout is a service by Google that enables account owners to save some of their data to a local system. The takeout service makes available data from a variety of Google services including Google Drive, YouTube … | John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Apple's Podcast Disaster — Is the company that basically invented the podcast putting it out to pasture? — Apple's podcast app is, without a doubt, the worst iOS app it's ever made. Others have been poorly received or largely ignored, but this is unprecedented: With nearly 6,000 ratings …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
You're not gonna Like it: Facebook's new search struggles with the real world — Mark Zuckerberg needs to rethink Likes before Graph Search can shine — One week ago, I received a Facebook message from my friend David. “SUPER random question, but do you know a girl from Michigan whose name is Lauren and lives in Boston?” he asked.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile — Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega … | Craig Kanalley / The Huffington Post: |
Pinterest May Be Bigger Than You Think, Competing To Be The 2nd Most Popular Social Network — Facebook is the dominant social network in the United States these days, in terms of users, but there's a battle underway for the number two slot, a new study has found.
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Taiwan Easycard: Risks and rewards of your life on one card — Beep, and a smart card gets you on a bus. — Beep, and the same card opens your office door. Beep, and you buy your coffee at a corner shop. Beep, you pay for parking, open the exit gate. Beep, check out a library book. — Beep.| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
How Nest's Control Freaks Reinvented the Thermostat — Two men who created the iPod and iPhone founded Nest and injected new technology into the humble thermostat. Now they have their sights on the rest of your house. — With computing and design savvy, Matt Rogers (left) … | Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
The computer that never crashes — A revolutionary new computer based on the apparent chaos of nature can reprogram itself if it finds a fault — OUT of chaos, comes order. A computer that mimics the apparent randomness found in nature can instantly recover from crashes by repairing corrupted data.
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