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NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years — The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.
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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 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 …
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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 …
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| 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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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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| 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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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 … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Another SF protest at the home of a Googler targets lawyer accused of evicting families — SF housing protests get personal as another Googler is confronted at home — There's an undeniable second boom underway in the tech sector, and the consequences, both positive and negative … | 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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