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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Big changes coming to AppleCare this fall: warranty subscriptions, in-store iOS device repairs, more [u] — In a town hall session held on Thursday, Apple informed tech staff that major changes to the AppleCare and AppleCare+ service programs will be enacted starting this fall …
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Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals — A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news. — The company confirmed that reporters …
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google's VP9 video codec nearly done; YouTube will use it — One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17. — Google plans to finish defining its VP9 video codec on June 17 …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Facebook's General Counsel Ullyot to Depart the Company — Facebook's top lawyer Ted Ullyot is leaving the social networking giant, apparently to take some time off. — Facebook disclosed the departure today. Ullyot, 45, will be officially gone in July; the search for his replacement will include internal and external candidates.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's two-step verification rolling out to additional countries: Canada, Argentina, Netherlands, Russia, Mexico, Poland, Brazil, more — Update: Mexico, Germany Netherlands, Russia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Portugal, Italy & Poland too. Let us know in the comments if the feature is now available in your country.
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| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Elon Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group — (Reuters) - Billionaire environmentalist Elon Musk has quit a Silicon Valley advocacy group formed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg after the group funded ads for senators touting their support for an oil pipeline and oil drilling in Alaska.
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Patent Court Torn on Whether Software Deserve Patents — The nation's top patent court issued a deeply divided opinion today on how to determine if software is eligible for legal protection, reflecting the broader debate that has split the computer industry.
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ITworld.com and Reuters
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform — The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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| Associated Press: |
Washington state courts hacked; potentially up to 160,000 Social Security numbers accessed — OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers …
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| Brad Reed / BGR: |
Microsoft exec hits back at Windows 8 bashing, says OS is not like ‘a can of soda’ — Microsoft executive Frank Shaw is not happy with everyone who compared Windows 8 to New Coke this week. Shaw, who serves as Microsoft's vice president of corporate communications, has written a blog post swiping … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback — (Reuters) - Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers and security firms sell tools for breaking into computers.
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| Michael B. Farrell / The Boston Globe: |
Boston goes Google as its drops Microsoft e-mail services — The mayor who doesn't do e-mail is now on Gmail. — Whether Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who doesn't even have a computer on his desk, actually uses it is another matter. But he's moving to Google, and bringing some 20,000 other city employees with him.
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