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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, @thegrugq and @dangillmor
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
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| Julian Sanchez / Guardian: |
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PC World, Engadget, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, Business Insider, Indiana University …, Neowin, BBC, Softpedia News, Electronista, Computerworld, IC ON THE RECORD and rc3.org. Tweets: @normative
| 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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Re/code and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jeff, @cdixon, @hunterwalk, @delrey, @tuurdemeester, @alexisohanian, @fredwilson, @hblodget, @om, @naval and @rsarver
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Free of the desire to do the right thing, highest-paid CEO Larry Ellison does what he wants — Still No. 1, and Doing What He Wants — It is good to be the king. It is even better to be Larry Ellison. — Most of us spend much of our lives thinking that we should do the right thing …
Tweets: @obrien, @timbray, @darlin, @nickbilton, @vkopytoff, @caseynewton and @poornimagupta
| 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 … | 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.”
Tweets: @cdixon
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Dell Chromebook 11 review: solid build quality and 10 hour battery life for under $300 — Dell Chromebook 11 review — There's a new king in Chromebook town — Chromebooks are the simplest computers you can buy today, but they've proven a tricky formula for manufacturers to get right.| 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: @poornimagupta, @hkanji and @startupljackson
| David Carr / New York Times: |
Content creators are skeptical of Yahoo's plans to produce high-quality television — Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV — Yahoo, a company that seems like a permanent adolescent in search of an identity, is about to try a new persona: high-quality television programmer.
Tweets: @mhelft, @jayrosen_nyu, @pkafka, @jswatz, @katierosman, @dangillmor, @pkafka, @ravisomaiya, @mathewi, @antderosa and @hblodget. See also Mediagazer
| 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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Engadget, Re/code, WinBeta, Electronista, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, WinBeta, The Switch, Softpedia News and Neowin
| Don Melton: |
Former Safari chief Don Melton recounts his encounters with Steve Jobs at Apple and NeXT — Memories of Steve — A version of this article about Steve Jobs first appeared in The Loop Magazine on his birthday during February of this year. Jim Dalrymple edited the original down in size …
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