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February 19, 2015, 1:45 PM

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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.
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 …
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.
Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:
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.
Office Blogs:
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 …
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 …
Lucian Constantin / PC World:
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.
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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 …
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.
Johnathan Nightingale / meandering wildly:
Mozilla's VP in charge of Firefox Johnathan Nightingale to step down at the end of March  —  Home for a Rest  —  Earlier today, I sent this note to the global mozilla employees list.  It was not an easy send button to push.  —  One of the many, many things Mozilla has taught me over the years is not to bury the lede, so here goes:
Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:
IT monitoring company ScienceLogic raises $43M Series D led by Goldman Sachs  —  Goldman Sachs Leads $43 Million Investment in ScienceLogic … Moving software to the cloud, which many companies are now doing, can make their operations simpler and more efficient, but the cloud brings new headaches, too.
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.
eMarketer and Newsroom Posts:
Mobile Game Revenues to Grow 16.5% in 2015, Surpassing $3 Billion  —  Gaming leads growth of $10 billion mobile content market as ebook and music downloads stagnate  —  US mobile game revenues—including both downloads and in-app purchases—will grow 16.5% this year to reach $3.04 billion, according to new figures from eMarketer.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Babar, malware that monitors web activity and logs keystrokes, is tied to French spy agency  —  Meet Babar, a New Malware Almost Certainly Created by France  —  The NSA, GCHQ, and their allies in the Five Eyes are not the only government agencies using malware for surveillance.

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