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Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — Stepping into a heated debate within the nation's intelligence agencies, President Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should — in most circumstances …
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| Steve Marquess / Speeds and Feeds: |
OpenSSL Software Foundation president: we need support from companies and governments for a team of 6+ full-time workers — Of Money, Responsibility, and Pride — Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I'm going to talk about that for a bit. — As has been well reported …
Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @dangillmor
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Private crypto keys are accessible to Heartbleed hackers, new data shows — Contrary to previous suspicions, it is possible for hackers exploiting the catastrophic vulnerability dubbed Heartbleed to extract private encryption keys from vulnerable websites, Web services firm Cloudflare reported Saturday.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
FRED WILSON Q&A: The Legendary Investor Talks Retirement, Tumblr's Exit, And Getting Over A Tough Year — It took Fred Wilson 10 years to become what he calls a “half-way decent” venture capitalist. It took him 20 to become a startup legend. — Lately, rumors have swirled that the Zynga …
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| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
Graphene: the strong, thin, flexible conductor that could change the electronics industry — Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow — I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. — No, fans of “The Graduate,” the word isn't “plastics.” — It's “graphene.”| Washington Post: |
Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence — In May 2012, the law school at George Mason University hosted a forum billed as a “vibrant discussion” about Internet search competition. Many of the major players in the field were there — regulators … | Kyle Russell / Business Insider: |
A BI reporter whose Google Glass was stolen off his face in SF on Friday reflects on the city's tech protests — I Was Assaulted For Wearing Google Glass In The Wrong Part Of San Francisco — On Friday night, I was assaulted while walking down the sidewalk in the Mission District of San Francisco.
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| Zoran Basich / Wall Street Journal: |
Andreessen warns companies of “abusive” renegotiation tactics by non-Silicon Valley PE firms — Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing High Valuations — Marc Andreessen and his firm Andreessen Horowitz are advising their portfolio companies to be …
Tweets: @startupljackson
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches — Tax collector has 58,000 PCs still running the aged XP; will spend $30M to upgrade to Windows 7 — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) acknowledged this week that it missed the April 8 cut-off for Windows XP support …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Jeff Bezos is making payments a top area of focus and investment at Amazon — Jeff Bezos to Amazon Payments Team: Move Faster — The payments industry has been waiting for years for Amazon, with its 215 million credit cards on file, to flex its muscles. Apparently, CEO Jeff Bezos has been, too.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Facebook's behind-the-scenes hardware operation, which helped draw Oculus — Facebook's Hardware Push Behind the Scenes Draws Oculus — Hidden away in Building 17 of Facebook Inc.'s headquarters is a 170-person team that's toiling away on products not usually associated with a social-networking company: hardware.Sponsor Posts
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