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June 22, 2014, 5:15 PM

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines  —  Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too)  —  Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …
Liam Spradlin / Android Police:
HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014  —  This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet  —  With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …
Andy Baio / Medium:
How public profiles and friending could improve discovery in the App Store and help indie devs  —  Friending the App Store  —  How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest.  Here's one way to fix it.  —  I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closely.
Tweets: @waxpancake and @zephoria
Emily Badger / Washington Post:
Taxi medallions have been the best investment in America for years.  Now Uber may be changing that.  —  CHICAGO — A taxicab is a car remade by government, modified dozens of ways by edicts within subsections of articles of the city's taxi code.  —  “Everywhere on this car has been regulated,” John Henry Assabill says.
Robert Graham / Errata Security:
300k vulnerable to Heartbleed two months later  —  When the Heartbleed vulnerability was announced, we found 600k systems vulnerable.  A month later, we found that half had been patched, and only 300k were vulnerable.  Last night, now slightly over two months after Heartbleed, we scanned again …
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Q&A With Facebook's Joey Flynn: The Lead Slingshot Designer Wants To Change How 90% Of Us Use Social Networks  —  Slingshot is the second mobile app to come out of Facebook's new startup-like department, Creative Labs.  Like photo messaging tools TapTalk and Snapchat, Slingshot lets users send images …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitch Hooks Into YouTube for Live Broadcast Alerts  —  Extended partnership comes as Google is engaged in acquisition talks with Internet videogame broadcaster  —  Internet videogame-broadcasting company Twitch extended its partnership with YouTube, under which the Google-owned site …
David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic  —  New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …
Bloomberg:
Former NSA director Keith Alexander now pitching banks $1M/month cybersecurity consulting  —  Ex-NSA Chief Pitches Banks Costly Advice on Cyber-Attacks  —  As the four-star general in charge of U.S. digital defenses, Keith Alexander warned repeatedly that the financial industry was among the likely targets of a major attack.
More: PandoDailyTweets: @csoghoian and @dangillmor
Ina Fried / Re/code:
Mozilla Says It's Not Working on a Firefox TV Dongle, but a Partner Could Be  —  A Twitter posting by a Mozilla developer evangelist has sparked belief that the company was readying its own take on Chromecast, with a dongle based on Firefox OS.  —  Christian Heilmann's tweet showed a picture …
More: UbergizmoTweets: @codepo8

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