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What I Didn't Say — A quote from an “interview” with me (I'll explain the scare quotes in a minute) went viral on the Internet recently: … When I saw this myself I wasn't sure what I was even supposed to be saying. That women aren't hackers? That they can't be taught to be hackers?
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BlackBerry CEO: we're focused on enterprise services, messaging, growing QNX adoption — BlackBerry CEO: Here's our new strategy — By: John Chen, executive chair and CEO of BlackBerry — It's been easy for competitors to promote negative stories about BlackBerry, focusing on the business of the past.
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| Sam Thielman / Adweek: |
Netflix Knocks a Dollar Off Its SD Streaming Service for New Users — Netflix has cracked down on password sharing this year (the streaming service has a $12-per-month plan if you want to stream on four devices simultaneously), but it looks like there's a new tier to its pricing plan … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away — Attendees at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this weekend got a surprising rundown of the NSA's surveillance capabilities, courtesy of security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum, who co-wrote the Der Spiegel article …
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The man behind NYT Magazine's gorgeous covers is headed to Apple — You may not know the name Arem Duplessis, but you've no doubt seen his work on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in the past 10 years. As design director at NYT Mag, he crafted some of the most stunning work …
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| Aimee Groth / Quartz: |
Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy — Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture. The company's Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantulas to win a $250 gift card.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Nokia wins German patent injunction against all HTC Android devices including the One series — The New Year's Eve fireworks kicked off a day early at the Munich I Regional Court, where Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann just handed Nokia a Germany-wide patent injunction against all HTC Android devices …
| Gopal Sathe / Livemint: |
Google exec Steve Grove says Google+ could become the YouTube of live video — Steve Grove: Google+ could do for live video, what YouTube did for recorded video — With over three years in the Google+ team, and heading its community partner scheme, Steve Grove's role is to make sure …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's “Midori” OS built alongside M#, a new C# derivative that may be open-sourced — Microsoft's Midori: The M# connection — Summary: There've been a couple of recent developments of note regarding Microsoft's ‘Midori’ skunkworks operating system project.| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
U.S. Struggles to Keep Pace in Delivering Broadband Service — WASHINGTON — San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States, a progressive and economically vibrant metropolis of 1.4 million people sprawled across south-central Texas. But the speed of its Internet service …
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| bunnie: |
Vulnerabilities in SD cards allow arbitrary code execution, opening door to MITM attacks — On Hacking MicroSD Cards — Today at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory card itself.
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| Maureen Farrell / Digits: |
Twitter's Slide Continues: Stock Falls to $60 — For now, $74.73 looks like Twitter's peak. — Since Twitter shares hit new record highs on Thursday, its shares have been falling - rapidly. — Shares of the microblogging site are down more than 5% Monday, pushing Twitter's stock price briefly below $60.Sponsor Posts
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