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Two people independently obtained SSL private keys with Heartbleed exploits, solving CloudFlare's challenge — The Heartbleed Challenge — So far, two people have independently solved the Heartbleed Challenge. The first was submitted at 4:22:01PST by Fedor Indutny (@indutny).
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NSA and Federal government claim that they were not aware of Heartbleed vulnerability before April 2014 — Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the “Heartbleed bug” flaw and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence — April 11, 2014
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Massachusetts governor unveils sweeping legislation to eliminate noncompetes for tech workers — Patrick looks to eliminate tech noncompete agreements — Governor Deval Patrick on Thursday will propose sweeping legislation to make it easier for workers in technology, life sciences …
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Amazon is wooing app developers for upcoming smartphone with money, Amazon Web Services, more — Amazon's Hard Sell: Gaining Developers for Its Coming Smartphones — As Amazon prepares for the launch of its first smartphones, the company faces a daunting task: Ensuring that the devices … | Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon plans to announce a smartphone by the end of June, to ship by the end of September — Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone — Retailer Has Plans to Announce Phone in June, Begin Shipping By End of September — Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half … | Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet — Twitter is having no trouble signing up users. But some new research provides an update on the size of an ongoing problem: getting people to tweet. — A report from Twopcharts, a website that monitors Twitter account activity …
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Microsoft experiments with making Windows Live Tiles interactive — Summary: Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to allow Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox users able to interact directly with Live Tiles. — Microsoft researchers in Asia are experimenting with the usefulness …
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Salesforce leasing half of planned 61-story Transbay Tower, tallest in SF after 2017 opening — Salesforce makes landmark deal to lease half of Transbay Tower — Salesforce.com will lease half of the planned Transbay Tower in a landmark real estate deal that puts San Francisco's largest …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
PayPal releases mobile payment app for the Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint reader — With the Samsung Galaxy S5 now available, PayPal is making good on its promise to use the handset's fingerprint reader. The company released mobile apps specifically for the Galaxy S5 and Samsung's latest wearables on Friday.
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Staples begins offering in-store 3D printing services in US, starting in LA and NY — Staples Wants to Bring 3D Printing to the Masses — Staples has been selling 3D printers for about a year. Now it wants to begin selling access to them. — The office supply retailer began offering …
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VentureBeat, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Electronista, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Engadget. Tweets: @staples
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Sprint to offer carrier billing and free trials for Spotify service in planned partnership — Sprint and Spotify Plan to Partner Up — Sprint and Spotify are working to push the streaming music service out to the wireless carrier's customers. — A planned tie-up between the two companies … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft OS chief Myerson talks turkey on transparency, cadence and cross platform — Summary: Microsoft Executive Vice President of operating systems Terry Myerson talks about Windows' value proposition for the a more cross-platform-committed Microsoft. — Microsoft Executive Vice President …
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