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DARPA proof-of-concept lets cyberwarriors visualize and attack networks with the Oculus Rift — Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar — For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it's about to get a lot more in-your-face.
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Apple Said To Be Prepping Smart Home Software Platform For WWDC Reveal — Apple is going to make a big play in the connected smart home space, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The company is planning a platform that would turn its iOS devices, including the iPhone …
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Amazon is inviting some customers to try its Fire TV set-top box free for 30 days — Amazon Now Has Plenty of Fire TVs, and May Let You Try One for Free — Remember when Amazon sold out of its Fire TV boxes, just a few days after introducing them? — Now they have more.| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Alleged Chinese Hacking: Alcoa Breach Relied on Simple Phishing Scam — Email That Purported to Be From Carlos Ghosn Held a Virus That Let Hackers Allegedly Steal Nearly 3,000 Messages, According to Indictment — At first blush, the email appeared to be from Carlos Ghosn …
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Investor Talk on Uber's Valuation Hits as High as $17 Billion — The bids for Uber's funding round rolled in this past week, and the price for the on-demand car service seems poised to steeply rise. — Several investors have stepped up during the bidding process, offering valuations near or above $17 billion, two people said.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
HTC One mini 2 review: A worthy new addition to the premium One clan — HTC created what was undoubtedly one of the best smartphones of last year with the original One. That was later followed up by the One mini, which was surprising in the sense that the handset maker hadn't before attempted … | Quinn Norton / Medium: |
Why security is terrible: computers, software, and the people who use them are broken — Everything Is Broken — Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it.
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Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the downside of monopolies and black-box algorithms — The internet is a wondrous thing — a limitless universe of content and products and information, all of which can be summoned up from the comfort of a chair or the palm of the hand … | Hollie Slade / Forbes: |
Browser-based encrypted email service ProtonMail launches beta, aims for Gmail-like simplicity — The Only Email System The NSA Can't Access — When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland.| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy — While onstage at the Surface Pro 3 event, Microsoft vice president and Surface creator Panos Panay cited a pretty surprising statistic: 96 percent of iPad owners also own a laptop. Tablet and laptop ownership relationships …
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Apple's Expanded ‘Your Verse’ Campaign Pitches iPad As Mobile Creation Tool — Apple is releasing two new TV spots today, along with companion sections on its website. The spots will continue its ‘Your Verse’ advertising, which attempts to demonstrate the ways that the iPad can be used to create and ‘do’.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
An Interview With Walt Mossberg And Kara Swisher, The Most Powerful Media Duo In Silicon Valley — On Tuesday, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher will host the Code Conference. — It's their tech industry conference featuring big-name speakers like Google cofounder Sergey Brin … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Following Microsoft, Sony's PlayStation business officially enters China — It's only been about a month since Microsoft announced that it'll be bringing the Xbox to China come September, courtesy of the local government lifting its somewhat lax ban on imported video games and consoles.
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