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First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO — First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online — Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business — Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business — In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …
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The Next Web, Gnip, Search Engine Journal and Forbes
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| Nick Halstead / DataSift: |
Social intelligence service DataSift says its Twitter firehose access expires August, bemoans impact on its customers and their customers, touts Facebook access — Twitter Ends its Partnership with DataSift - Firehose Access Expires on August 13, 2015 — For several months now …
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New York Times, Re/code, The Register, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat and Beyond Search
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| Washington Post: |
Inside the battle over crypto backdoors as the White House prepares report for President Obama — As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security — For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue …
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Slashdot and Engadget. Tweets: @csoghoian, @binitamshah, @dangillmor, @xor, @xor and @trevortimm
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class — Roku 3 (2015) review: A fresh voice improves the best search in streaming — Competing against Apple, Amazon and Google isn't easy. Just ask Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and Yahoo.
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Flir FX is a home security camera that also acts as an action camera and a car dash cam — The Flir FX is a security camera with bigger ambitions — Anyone who grew up in the 1980s probably knows of Bo Jackson. Unlike most professional athletes, Jackson played both baseball and football, managing to become an all-star in each.
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| Daniel Rivero / Fusion: |
Advocacy group Privacy International creates fake companies to gain access to surveillance industry trade shows and expose the industry's surveillance powers — Meet the privacy activists who spy on the surveillance industry — LONDON- On the second floor of a narrow brick building … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Yahoo leadership reorganization: Simon Khalaf promoted to SVP to oversee Tumblr and home page, David Karp no longer reports to Mayer, Adam Cahan runs video — Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, announced a major reorganization … | Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
OS X 10.10.3 includes patch for critical backdoor flaw in admin framework, which is unlikely to be ported to earlier OS X versions — Apple Patches Critical Backdoor Flaw in OS X 10.10.3 — For months, Apple has been previewing the new Photos App, which has now officially landed … | Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
As Flash usage wanes, Internet archivists struggle to preserve Flash websites — Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool — Navigating awful, 100 percent Flash-based sites is an experience many of us have had, and is unequivocally part of internet canon.
Tweets: @dalmaer
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Mini-review of Hisense's $149 ARM Chromebook: well-made for price, but screen is mediocre, short battery life compared to Intel Chromebooks — Mini-review: Hisense's ARM Chromebook actually isn't awful for $149 — The laptop doesn't cut corners that $199 Chromebooks aren't already cutting.
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Profile of Lynda Weinman, co-founder of e-learning site Lynda.com, which was recently acquired by LinkedIn — Lynda.com: A 60-Year-Old Earns Internet Glory — Lynda Weinman's popular e-learning site is acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion — At a time when some of the biggest deals …
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