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Facebook tweaks News Feed to show more status updates from friends in lieu of liked stories, says post reach and referral traffic to publishers could decline — News Feed FYI: Balancing Content from Friends and Pages — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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Adobe Lightroom 6 arrives with facial recognition, HDR, improved editing tools, mobile apps — Adobe launches Lightroom 6 photo app update as rival Aperture bites the dust — Adobe has launched a major upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, its desktop photo management and editing app …
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| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Amazon launches Amazon Destinations for booking short hotel getaways in select markets — Amazon Travel Launches New Brand, Amazon Destinations — Amazon's new and expanded hotel service is called Amazon Destinations and it is currently available on desktop and mobile.| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Failed Apple Rootpipe Fix Leaves Backdoor On All Macs, Researchers Claim — When Apple released the latest version of Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this month, it claimed to have fixed a significant flaw, a backdoor named Rootpipe, that had been resident on its computers since 2011.| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Mediagazer introduces ads for media jobs, and Techmeme's job ads now extend to its mobile site — For nearly four years, Techmeme has offered space on our front page for companies to advertise that they're hiring, and link their job offerings. Unlike typical job boards … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: BlackBerry Is Buying File Security And DRM Startup WatchDox for up to $150M — Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has been on a mission to turn around its beleaguered handset business by focusing more on software, and it looks like it has taken a significant step in that direction, specifically around file security and DRM.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
FAQ: Google's mobile friendly algorithm update, rolling out today, explained — Mobilegeddon Checklist: How To Prepare For This Week's Google Mobile Friendly Update — The Google Mobile Friendly Update launches tomorrow, a day that many including ourselves here at Search Engine Land are calling “Mobilegeddon.”
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| Erik Larson / Bloomberg Business: |
Aereo to settle broadcasters' copyright claims of more than $99M for $950K — Aereo Settles Broadcasters' Copyright Claims for $950,000 — Aereo Inc., the online-TV service brought down by a U.S. Supreme Court copyright ruling, agreed to pay Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and other broadcasters …
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The Verge, Plagiarism Today, Consumerist and SlashGear
| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Twitter begins automatically filtering notifications of abusive mentions, broadens violent threats policy, and introduces temporary account suspensions — Twitter to filter notifications for all accounts in effort to cut down on abuse — Social network moves to ban indirect threats …
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The Twitter Blog, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Washington Post, VentureBeat, New York Times, Re/code, BBC and Mashable. Tweets: @mikeelgan
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Over 1,500 iOS apps, including apps by Citrix, Alibaba, Rotten Tomatoes, still have HTTPS-crippling bug, weeks after it was first disclosed — 1,500 iOS apps have HTTPS-crippling bug. Is one of them on your device? — Apps downloaded two million times are vulnerable to trivial man-in-the-middle attacks.
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SourceDNA, Digital Trends, Computerworld, PandoDaily, MacNN, Cult of Mac, TechSpot, App Advice, AppleInsider, BGR, Help Net Security, FierceMobileIT News, MacRumors, iLounge, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and We Live Security. Tweets: @threatintel
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Offers Developers a Chance to Buy Apple Watch Sport With Guaranteed April 28 Delivery Date — Apple today began sending out emails to iOS developers, offering them a chance to purchase a 42mm Apple Watch Sport with a Blue Sport Band that has a guaranteed shipment date of April 28 …
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9to5Mac, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog and The Verge
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp for iOS is updated with free VoIP calling, quick photo option, new sharing extension — WhatsApp Begins Rolling Out Its Voice-Calling Feature To iOS Users — Less than a month after WhatsApp introduced free voice calls to users of its Android app, so the Facebook-owned company … Sponsor Posts
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