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Symantec uncovers Regin, a trojan likely built by a nation-state, which has spied on businesses and governments since 2008 — Symantec Uncovers Sophisticated, Stealthy Computer Spying Tool — Computer security researchers at Symantec say they have discovered a sophisticated piece …
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| Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: |
The US Congress won't limit the NSA: individuals, courts, and other nations must step up — Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here's What Matters Instead. — The “USA Freedom Act”—which its proponents were heralding as “NSA reform” despite its suffocatingly narrow scope … | Alissa Walker / Gizmodo: |
Google and Garmin altered directions to the Hollywood sign on behalf of nearby homeowners to keep tourists away — Why People Keep Trying to Erase the Hollywood Sign From Google Maps — The Hollywood Sign might be one of the most recognizable things on Earth. In Los Angeles, it's also one of the most visible.| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
The one big potential Uber scandal concerns employee access to user data, not targeting journalists for opposition research — In Defense of Uber: An Objective Opinion — The story on Uber has been written about ad nauseam, which is why I've been reluctant to weigh in.
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Tech firms competing for talent spawn “workplace coordinators” to manage lavish employee perks — Lavish Perks Spawn New Job Category — At Tech Companies, Aim-to-Please Specialists Provide Yoga Classes, Jell-O Shots — From Muay Thai classes to Zen meditation rooms …
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| Jerome Groopman / New Yorker: |
How 3-D printing is revolutionizing medicine — In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month-old boy. The baby had been born with a rare condition called tracheobronchomalacia …
Tweets: @mfordfuture and @sub8u
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Samsung considers reorg placing mobile division under co-CEO B.K. Yoon, who oversees TV and home appliance business — Samsung Considering Shake-Up in Management — Co-CEO B.K. Yoon May Assume Leadership of Mobile Division| Felix Gillette / Businessweek: |
Behind PayPal-owned mobile payments app Venmo, which processed $700M in payments in Q3 2014 — Mobile Payment Startup Venmo is Killing Cash — Kristen Geil, a writer for an Internet marketing firm in Chicago, heard about Venmo for the first time two summers ago.
Tweets: @avinash and @kaylatausche
| Ben Huh / Backchannel: |
How Cheezburger survived 3 years of turmoil to create a platform for remixing funny images — Rewriting Cheezburger Saved My Life — Please You Download It … I want to tell you the entire story of how this app came to be, with all the guts and gore.
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Inc.com. Tweets: @mathewi, @caro, @lazerow, @cindygallop, @paulsingh, @backchnnl, @randyjhunt, @jasonlbaptiste, @eamonleonard and @jguynn. Thanks:@themadhacker. See also Mediagazer
| Ian Urbina / New York Times: |
Passwords don't just protect data, they reveal our hopes, dreams, secrets, fears, and memories — The Secret Life of Passwords … Play Videos — Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world's largest financial-services firms, still cries when he talks about it.
Tweets: @codinghorror, @swiftonsecurity, @aldaily, @nytimes, @ala_lita, @nicoleperlroth, @amiraaah, @megan, @nytmag, @stammy, @digiphile, @ethanz and @nickbilton
| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Europeans Have Authority To Seek Google Break Up Though Unlikely To Do So — Break Google up. That's the thrust of a “non-binding” resolution the European Parliament is expected to adopt at some point in the near future, according to a report on Friday from Reuters.
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PC Magazine and Slate
| AnandTech: |
Full disk encryption on Nexus 6 leads to 62.9% drop in random read performance — Encryption and Storage Performance in Android 5.0 Lollipop — As alluded to in our Nexus 6 review, our normal storage performance benchmark was no longer giving valid results as of Android 5.0.
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PC Magazine, TechSpot, Android Beat, Electronista, Digital Trends, Droid Life, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, BGR and Android Authority
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