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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Some Lenovo notebooks shipped with man-in-the-middle Superfish adware that breaks HTTPS connections, affects Chrome and Internet Explorer — Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections — Superfish may make it trivial for attackers to spoof any HTTPS website.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Lenovo disabled Superfish in January, but the company says it has not found “evidence to substantiate security concerns” — Lenovo honestly thought you'd enjoy that Superfish HTTPS spyware — It wasn't about the money! — Imagine that you are a major global seller …
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| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car — In the last few weeks we've heard about a poaching war between Apple and Tesla, a couple hires by Apple from the auto industry, and a whole lot of speculation followed by reports that Apple has a team of hundreds working on an electric vehicle.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
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| The Intercept: |
How US and UK spies hacked into world's largest maker of SIM cards and stole encryption keys — How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle — AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world …
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Tweets: @ow, @the_intercept, @koenrh and @ggreenwald
| Taylor Kourim / Gmail Blog: |
Google Inbox comes to iPad and Android tablets, supports Firefox and Safari as well as Chrome — Inbox by Gmail: now in more places — It's always hard to know when it's time to share a new product, because there's always just a _few_ more things you want to do.
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Microsoft OneNote gets OCR support across all platforms and handwriting recognition on iPad — Handwriting in OneNote for iPad, and OCR Everywhere — People are more overwhelmed than ever by how much they need to remember on a daily basis. In fact, according to a 2013 survey commissioned … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Now 25 years old, what's next for Photoshop? An interview with Adobe's Stephen Nielson — Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Digit, a free savings account that monitors spending habits to automatically save users money, exits closed beta and is now open for US accounts — Digit is the automated savings plan we've been waiting for — Until recently, my savings consisted mostly of unexpected windfalls.| Eric Blattberg / Digiday: |
YouTube prohibits sponsored overlays to keep creators from cutting Google out of ad revenues — YouTube makes a move against brand-sponsored videos — YouTube is putting down the clamps on video creators who work directly with brands, nudging them instead to rely on Google's sales team for deals.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IFTTT Launches 3 “Do” Apps To Automate Photo Sharing, Tasks, Notes; Rebrands Main App “IF” — IFTTT made its name in the tech world with a platform for “Recipes” that people could use to automate online and mobile actions in and between different apps and services — developer mechanics, simplified.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pandora testing a message service that lets artists send audio messages to fans — Pandora to Let Music Artists Like Lenny Kravitz Send Audio Messages to Fans (Video) — Even Pandora wants in on the messaging boom. — The music streaming service is launching a pilot test this week … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile tops Q4 estimates with a profit of $101M, revenue rises 20% to $8.15B — T-Mobile swings to Q4 profit as customer growth zooms along — The wireless carrier expects the momentum to continue into 2015, with the estimated addition of 2.2 million to 3.2 million new customers who pay at the end of the month.
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The Register, Android Authority, Gigaom, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and GeekWire. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
YouTube sees 50% annual growth in views for the last three years, despite Facebook's focus on video — YouTube Says Growth Is Still Strong Despite Push From Facebook — YouTube's head of content says the video giant has seen 50% annual growth in views for the last three years … | Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago — News broke earlier this week about the NSA's “most sophisticated” malware yet: An undetectable backdoor that can filter information to and from a hard drive, using the underlying framework of the drive itself.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
US treasury to accept some payments through PayPal and Dwolla in small pilot on Pay.gov — The US Treasury will now accept PayPal — Sorry, your bitcoins are still no good here — Last year US government agencies collected a whopping $3.37 trillion in revenue.
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service, CNET, Digital Payments, TIME, Federal Computer Week and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@jslampe
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Expands Marketing Platform With Off-Site Ads And New Lead Targeting Tools — LinkedIn is launching an expanded version of its Marketing Solutions platform today. There are new products, an expansion beyond Linkedin Itself, and a broader vision for helping advertisers reach potential customers throughout the sales cycle.
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Marketing Solutions Blog, AdExchanger, Re/code, WebProNews and TechFrag
| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Samsung TVs aren't the only gadgets spying on you, list includes LG TV, Xbox Kinect, Amazon Echo, GM's Onstar and more — It's not just Samsung TVs — lots of other gadgets are spying on you — Earlier this month, Samsung was the target of a privacy dust-up due to a disturbing sentence … | Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
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