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Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when — Ever since Heartbleed was made public there have been questions about who knew what and when.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vicious Heartbleed bug bites millions of Android phones, other devices — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library via Wikipedia — The catastrophic Heartbleed security bug that has already bitten Yahoo Mail, the Canada Revenue Agency … | Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Tails: the privacy-focused Linux version Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras used to communicate — Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA — When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Samsung exec at trial: marketing drove our sales; designer denies influence of slide-to-unlock — Samsung Designer Denies Apple Influence: “Absolutely Not” — Did Samsung steal its slide-to-unlock feature from Apple's smartphone software? — “Absolutely not,” said Samsung senior UI designer Youngmi Kim … | Wall Street Journal: |
Google buys Titan Aerospace, the maker of high-altitude drones Facebook was considering — Google Buys Drone Maker Courted by Facebook — Internet Giant to Acquire Titan Aerospace — Google Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, a startup maker of high-altitude drones …
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Tweets: @shaliniwsj, @levie, @mikeisaac, @moorehn, @eringriffith and @tomwarren
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Windows Phone 8.1 natively supports Apple Passbook data, an unannounced feature Apple may want to stop — Apple's Passbook passes are being used by Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft Wallet — When Apple introduced Passbook in iOS 6 they billed it as a way to store all your tickets, coupons …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
| Michael Brown / PC World: |
Quantenna promises to deliver 10-gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015 — Today's fastest 802.11ac routers deliver throughput speeds on par with hardwired gigabit-ethernet connections. That might seem slow by next year, when Quantenna Communications launches its new Wi-Fi chipset.
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| Mitchell Baker / The Mozilla Blog: |
Greylock's Chris Beard joins Mozilla's Board of Directors, becomes interim CEO — Mozilla Moving Forward — Mozilla finds itself in the midst of an unexpected leadership transition. Along with my fellow board members Reid Hoffman and Katharina Borchert, I am pleased to announce …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained) — A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland. A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle. (From Indybay) — The Santa Clara Valley …
Tweets: @balajis, @fraying, @tomcoates, @gapingvoid, @ruskin147 and @mattrosoff
| Michael Learmonth / AdAge: |
YouTube using traditional advertising to promote star content creators — Exclusive Interview: Susan Wojcicki's Plan to Make YouTube ‘Stars’ Real-Life Famous — And Guaranteeing Audiences In Bid to Pry More TV Dollars Away In the Upfront — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google's updated terms of service clarifies how emails are analyzed for targeting ads — Google unveils email scanning practices in new terms of service — (Reuters) - Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails …
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| Joe McKendrick / ZDNet: |
Soon, cloud capacity will be available in a spot market — Summary: Infrastructure as a Service marketplace will enable organizations to acquire IaaS cycles, as well as potentially sell excess capacity. — In a few months, it may be possible to buy cloud infrastructure capacity on an open market …
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| Tom Lavell / Bloomberg: |
Zebra Technologies to buy Motorola's enterprise business for $3.45B — Zebra to Buy Motorola Solutions Unit for $3.45 Billion — Zebra Technologies Corp. (ZBRA) will acquire the enterprise business of Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) for $3.45 billion, adding mobile computing …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Amid Reports Facebook Is Eyeing Up Financial Services, TransferWise Hits £1 Billion In Transfers — A million pounds isn't cool, you know what's cool? — In the midst of reports that Facebook could be about to get into financial services, one of the startups it's rumoured to have talked to …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans major expansion in New York, is seeking space for more than 3,000 workers — Space Quest: Google Needs More Offices in New York City — Internet Giant Launches Search for Room to Hold More Than 3,000 Workers — Google is doing a search: It wants to expand further …
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FCC plans to reserve up to a third of licenses for small wireless carriers in spectrum auction — Bidding Rules Becoming Clearer for Upcoming Airwaves Auction — Federal officials plan to reserve up to a third of licenses sold in a TV airwaves auction next year for smaller wireless carriers under …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes Office Online available in Chrome Web Store — Summary: Microsoft is making the Web versions of its Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps available to users through the Chrome Web Store. — Microsoft's Office Online — the Webified and free versions of Word, Excel … | Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter: |
David Fincher pulls out of talks to direct Sony Pictures' Steve Jobs film — David Fincher Out of Steve Jobs Movie in $10 Million Fee Fight (Exclusive) — The director was negotiating with Sony to reteam with “The Social Network” writer Aaron Sorkin and producer Scott Rudin.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google considering giving a boost in its search-engine results to websites that use encryption — Google May Push Sites to Use Encryption — A powerful voice at Google wants websites to be more secure. — In a move that experts say could make it harder to spy on Web users …
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TechEye, Neowin, Mercury News, TheHill, SlashGear, The Verge, Computerworld, BetaNews, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Gigaom, Geeky Gadgets and VentureBreak. Thanks:@bryfitz
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Says No to Accepting Bitcoin, Maybe to Building an Amex or Visa Competitor — Like bitcoin? Like Amazon? Want to use bitcoin to buy stuff from Amazon? — I have some bad news for you. Not going to happen anytime soon. — “Obviously it gets a lot of press and we have considered it …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Did Microsoft just kill its anti-Google ‘Scroogled’ campaign? — Summary: A Microsoft Corporate Vice President claims Microsoft is ‘done’ with its ‘Scroogled’ campaign. But is the company really Scroogled out? — Has Microsoft quietly done away with its anti-Google “Scroogled” campaign?
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Business Insider, Yabbly, TIME, Softpedia News, Android Community, Ubergizmo, BGR, Neowin, 9to5Google and Android Central. Tweets: @maryjofoley
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