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April 10, 2014, 8:25 AM

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Mashable:

The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now — An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day …

More: AVC and PayPal Forward

Amber Gott / The LastPass Blog:

LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed — Yesterday we informed our community of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug. In our blog post, we explained how this security issue impacted our service and what our users should know about the situation.

More: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Business Insider, BloggingPro, New York Times, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Security Watch, Lifehacker, Daily Dot, Business Insider, The Official Rackspace Blog, Wired, Help Net Security and PC Magazine

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Heartbleed bug puts the chaotic nature of the Internet under the magnifying glass — A major flaw revealed this week in widely used encryption software has highlighted one of the enduring — and terrifying — realities of the Internet: It is inherently chaotic, built by multitudes and continuously tweaked …

More: New York Times, The Switch, Mojang, New Yorker, Wired, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA

Tweets: @jsvine, @hunterschwarz and @felixsalmon

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Jony Ive shakes up Apple's software design group, iPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing — Following friction between top Apple Human Interface Vice President Greg Christie and Senior Vice President Jony Ive, Apple's hardware and software design is being dramatically shaken up, according to sources familiar with the matter.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Jony Ive Expands Role in Software Design; Apple Confirms Greg Christie's Retirement — Daisuke Wakabayashi, reporting for the WSJ: … I've been asking around since the news broke this afternoon. What I've heard, from several sources: Christie and Ive may not see eye to eye on UI design style …

More: Wall Street Journal, blogs.ft.com, Silicon Republic, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball and MacRumors

Tweets: @jyarow and @kbaxter

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Dropbox unveils Carousel for organizing your photos and videos — Dropbox today announced Carousel, a product to store and manage your photos and videos. It incorporates features from Snapjoy, a photo startup that Dropbox acquired in December 2012. The launch of Carousel represents a bid …

More: The Dropbox Blog, ITworld.com, InfoWorld, Wall Street Journal, Android Beat, gHacks Technology News, MacStories, Mashable, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, Carousel and TechCrunch

Tweets: @panzer, @mattlynley, @tim and @caseynewton

The Dropbox Blog:

Dropbox Chapter 2: the “magic folder” is now “a home for life” accessed with a family of apps — A home for life — Technology should ‘just work’ and make us happy. But with all the different apps, devices, and data out there, things gets complicated pretty quickly.

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Dropbox brings the popular Mailbox email app to Android and desktop

More: Mailbox, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Android Central, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google and iPhone in Canada Blog

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Mailbox's Auto-swipe feature intelligently predicts which messages to archive and snooze

More: It's a Gadget, Ubergizmo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Digital Trends, MacStories, The Mac Observer, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Computerworld and POPSUGAR

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Announces ‘Project Harmony’ To Bring Collaborative Features To Microsoft Office

More: VentureBeat, TechSpot and Gizmodo. Tweets: @dropboxatwork

Businessweek:

Dropbox builds library of independent apps and enterprise tools as Condoleezza Rice joins board

More: Valleywag, The Dropbox Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Mashable, Tech Chronicles, Boing Boing and ZDNet

Tweets: @migueldeicaza, @edbott, @janl, @trevortimm and @benioff

Thanks:@mattlynley

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Hits 275M Users And Launches New Business Product To All

More: eWeek, Inc.com, ReadWrite, InfoWorld and Y Combinator Posthaven

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

KGI forecast: iWatch at multiple price points, two iPhone models, 12" high resolution MacBook Air, 12.9" iPad Pro, more — Apple's 2014 Product Roadmap: New iWatch, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MacBooks Coming — Apple is set to release a slew of new products during the third quarter …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps — Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to an extreme new level today. It's starting to notify users they'll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android …

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

The story of a female employee who shared on Secret that she was left out when Google acquired her 5-person startup — The Secret Shame of an Unacquired Tech Worker — Last week, amid the overwrought start-up angst and sexual escapades that clutter the anonymous messaging app Secret …

More: Valleywag. Tweets: @nymag, @ashleymayer, @mims, @skimbrel, @caro, @parmy, @moorehn, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @hilarygreenbaum, @anildash and @nytfridge

Reuters:

BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday, as the technology company looks to expand its corporate reach with investments, acquisitions and partnerships.

More: The Register, TheStreet.com, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Engadget, CrackBerry.com and I4U News

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google is testing new UI and features for Google Calendar — Much in the same way that Google is currently testing features out for Gmail, we are now seeing updated UI and new features for the Google Calendar Android app. — Like many other companies, Google tests a lot of their software internally …

More: Ubergizmo, Android Community, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android and Me, AndroidGuys, The Verge, Phandroid and Gizmodo

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Franken: Comcast called Time Warner Cable a competitor until they wanted to merge — Comcast has repeatedly said the biggest reason US regulators should approve its $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC) is that the two companies do not compete against each other.

More: DSLreports, Free Press and Engadget

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Analyzing Comcast's argument for taking over Time Warner Cable

More: corporate.comcast.com, Daily Dot and Washington Post. See also Mediagazer

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

CNN Digital Studios launching bite-sized video news series for viewing and sharing on Twitter — Why CNN Is Launching A News Show Built For Twitter — As every media company from Yahoo to Microsoft to Crackle looks to up the amount of original Web video it produces, here comes CNN.

More: SocialTimes, Lost Remote and Tubefilter

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud Services Get A Privacy Thumbs Up From Europe's Data Protection Authorities — Microsoft is no stranger to the chilling effects of European regulation, facing fines for some of its own practices and seeing rivals like Google get off the hook more lightly.

More: The Official Microsoft Blog

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