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Hackers claiming to be ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” seize US Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts — Someone Claiming to Be ISIS Says They Hacked CENTCOM, Leaks Docs Online — U.S. Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts just lit up in a bad way.
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Tweets: @wsj, @harrisj, @swiftonsecurity, @aminorjourney, @wsj, @darth, @gizmodo, @reuters, @mikeisaac, @thestalwart, @antderosa and @centcom
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Obama to propose federal legislation that would protect student privacy, require that companies disclose breaches that involve consumer data — Obama to Call for Laws Covering Data Hacking and Student Privacy — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will call for federal legislation intended …
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Tweets: @funnymonkey and @natashanyt
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Google stops providing security patches for pre-KitKat WebView, leaves 930M users vulnerable — Google No Longer Provides Patches for WebView Jelly Bean and Prior — Over the past year, independent researcher Rafay Baloch (of “Rafay's Hacking Articles") and Rapid7's Joe Vennix … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia-backed international restaurant discovery service Zomato buys IAC's Urbanspoon for $50M to $60M to enter US market — Restaurant Discovery Site Zomato Buys IAC's Urbanspoon, Enters The U.S. — Zomato, the restaurant discovery site backed by Sequoia, has bought Urbanspoon from IAC …
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Exclusive: Facebook, Xiaomi discussed possible investment in the Chinese smartphone maker - sources — (Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg and Xiaomi Inc CEO Lei Jun discussed a potential investment by Facebook in China's top smartphone maker ahead of its $1.1 billion fundraising last month … | David Yanofsky / Quartz: |
Instagram fixes privacy hole that exposed private photos posted from a public profile later changed to private — Your private Instagrams weren't as private as you thought they were — A privacy hole was publicly exposing an untold number of photographs Instagram users believed were private …
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Samsung announces 5.5-inch metal unibody Galaxy A7 with 8-core Exynos or Snapdragon CPUs, 13MP camera, dual-sim option — Samsung Packs An 8-Core Processor Into Its New 5.5-Inch Galaxy A7 Smartphone — Last year Samsung released an eight-core version of the Galaxy S5 …
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Microsoft will preview Windows 10 for phones, release beta version later this month — Microsoft prepares to preview Windows 10 for phones — Beta version expected by end of the month — Microsoft is preparing to preview its latest version of Windows Phone later this month.
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Spotify now has 60M users, 15M of whom are paying subscribers — Two months after Spotify revealed it had 50 million users and 12.5 million subscribers, the music-streaming behemoth has issued an updated set of figures for 2015. — The company says it now has 60 million active users …
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Spotify Blog, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, Gigaom, VatorNews, TechCrunch, Android Police, CNET, TIME, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Guardian, The Verge, The Next Web and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Chilling Effects, a site tracking DMCA removal requests, pulls its copyright removal notice pages from search engines — Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself — On an average day Google now processes more than a million takedown requests from copyright holders, and that's for its search engine alone.
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Search Engine Land and ResearchBuzz. Tweets: @fredbenenson, @mathewi, @mildmojo, @dangillmor, @xor, @xor and @declanm
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Capital One Acquires Budgeting App Level Money — Capital One has acquired San Francisco-based money management app, Level Money, the companies are announcing this morning. The app, which is focused on allowing consumers to keep track of their spendable cash and savings …
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http://blog.levelmoney.com/, Bank Innovation, Android Police and The Verge
Tweets: @howardlindzon and @thatdudef
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Following Microsoft's new Skype Translator, Google to announce major update to Translate app, add automatic transcription for popular languages — Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promise — The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel.
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Christian Science Monitor, CNET, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, Search Engine Land, TIME, InfoWorld, Inquirer, Telegraph, SlashGear, Android Beat, USA Today, PC World, memeburn, Phandroid, I4U News, Wired.co.uk, TechSpot, Mashable, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Electronista, Android Central, Neowin, Shiny Shiny, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and 9to5Google
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Apple suppliers TSMC, Foxconn announce record December revenues as iPhone sales soar — The iPhone's strong holiday sales helped two of Apple's biggest supply chain partners — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Hon Hai Precision Industry — post record monthly revenues in December … | Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
A newly declassified report reveals the FBI has broadened its surveillance program, retains copies of NSA-intercepted communications for analysis — F.B.I. Is Broadening Surveillance Role, Report Shows — WASHINGTON — Although the government's warrantless surveillance program is associated …
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Alibaba in talks to buy 30 to 40% stake in One97 Communications, owners of a popular Indian mobile commerce and payments platform Paytm, for $550M — China's Alibaba to buy $550 mln stake in One97 Communications - sources — (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) … Sponsor Posts
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