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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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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 …
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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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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PC World, The Verge, PandoDaily, Business Insider and Consumerist
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
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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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 … | New York Times: |
Pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones leaves The New Yorker to join Genius as an executive editor focusing on annotation of lyrics — Pop Music Critic Leaves The New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Start-Up — Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker …
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The Huffington Post, The Verge, PandoDaily, Gawker, TechCrunch, Refinery29 and New York Magazine
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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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GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Next Web, The Economic Times, Business Standard and Mashable. Thanks:@jonrussell
| 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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PC World, Computerworld, The Verge and Gizmodo
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