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Apple's planned iOS 9 ‘Home’ app uses virtual rooms to manage HomeKit accessories — Apple's plan to manage upcoming HomeKit-compatible accessories could revolve around a new iOS app called “Home,” according to sources familiar with the app. Introduced at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Logjam vulnerability downgrades HTTPS encryption, affects tens of thousands of web and mail servers; browser fixes coming; NSA may have used it to crack VPNs — HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers — Diffie-Hellman downgrade weakness allows attackers to intercept encrypted data.
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Skyhigh Networks, The Logjam Attack, Help Net Security, Wall Street Journal, ITworld.com, CloudFlare, darkREADING, Computerworld, Darknet, HotHardware.com News, SC Magazine, V3.co.uk, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Malwarebytes Unpacked, The Geek Byte, The Register, Threatpost, PandoDaily, SecurityWeek, Electronista, bit-tech.net and The Next Web. Tweets: @matthew_d_green
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Uber poached 50 experts in vehicle autonomy from Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, a third of the lab's staff — Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars — This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers … | Pew Internet: |
Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure — Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to replace Helvetica Neue in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 with Apple Watch's San Francisco font — Apple plans to refresh iOS 9, OS X 10.11 using new Apple Watch font — Apple is currently planning to use the new system font developed for the Apple Watch to refresh the looks of iPads …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix To Roll Out A New, More Immersive Web Interface Starting In June — Netflix confirms today that it will roll out a new user interface on the web to all users worldwide beginning next month. A number of Netflix customers are already seeing the updated look-and-feel, however, according to various reports.
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership” — Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Spotify's new version adds podcasts, video, playlists tailored to user's day, and “Running” feature that matches BPM to pace, launching in US, UK, more, today — Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, And Activity-Based Playlists — Spotify has just unveiled the newest version …
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The Verge, Spotify Press, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, Re/code, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, mobihealthnews, TIME, Telegraph, AdExchanger, POPSUGAR, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, SocialTimes, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, BBC, iDownloadBlog.com, Yahoo Tech, LarrysWorld.com, Macworld, Engadget, Associated Press, CNET, Engadget and Globe and Mail
Tweets: @jsnell, @stevenbertoni, @mikeisaac, @caseynewton, @cernovich and @jonrussell
See also Mediagazer| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Flickr's image-recognition tech tagged photos of faces, including black people, with “ape” and “animal”, images of Dachau concentration camp as “jungle gym” — Flickr faces complaints over ‘offensive’ auto-tagging for photos| Xbox Wire: |
Xbox One over-the-air TV tuner now available in the US and Canada for $59.99 — Over-the-Air TV Tuner Available Now for Xbox One in the U.S. and Canada — Today, we're excited to deliver one of the most requested live TV features on Xbox Feedback to our fans.| Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Private bus startup Leap suspends service after the California Public Utilities Commission serves company with cease-and-desist order amid permit dispute — Leap Transit shut down by the state for operating illegally — The state has forced Leap Transit to halt operations for running its luxury bus line without a permit.| Charles Clover / Financial Times: |
Huawei launches Lite OS, an operating system for the Internet of Things — Huawei launches ‘internet of things’ operating system — Huawei, the Chinese telecoms group, has launched an operating system designed to work exclusively with internet connected objects — from cars to watches to toothbrushes …
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| Neha Dimri / Reuters: |
Shopify prices IPO at $17 per share, sells 7.7M class A shares raising about $131M, valuing the company at about $1.27B — Canadian software maker Shopify valued at $1.27 billion at IPO price — Canadian e-commerce software maker Shopify Inc (SHOP.N) (SH.TO) said its U.S. initial public offering …
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft looks to be building a new light-weight email app called Flow — Summary:Microsoft appears to be building an app for fast, light-weight, real-time conversations called Flow, which is likely to debut on iPhone, according to leaked information. — Microsoft seems to be developing …
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Neowin, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Windows Central, MobileSyrup.com, TIME, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, App Advice, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Patently Apple, iLounge, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, CNET, Mashable, BGR, ITworld.com and WinBeta
| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Lycos puts patents covering search engine tech, online ads, and games up for sale; plans to release new products incorporating IoT hardware in coming weeks — Internet search pioneer Lycos puts patents up for sale — Lycos, one of the Internet's original search engines … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis leaves to study at Stanford Graduate School of Business; Matthew Panzarino to continue as editor — TechCrunch's Top Editor Tsotsis Steps Down — Alexia Tsotsis will be stepping down from her high-profile job as co-editor of TechCrunch today.
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TechCrunch and Gawker. Tweets: @jonrussell, @joshconstine, @ryanlawler, @panzer, @martinsfp, @stevekovach, @fmanjoo and @caseynewton. See also Mediagazer
| Elizabeth Weise / USA Today: |
Birth dates, names, emails, and addresses of 1.1M DC-area customers of health insurer CareFirst potentially accessed in a June 2014 cyberattack — 1.1 million CareFirst members in D.C.-area potentially breached — As many as 1.1 million Washington D.C. BlueCross BlueShield members …
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ZDNet, Forbes, SecurityWeek, FierceHealthIT News, TIME, Reuters, Fortune, BuzzFeed, ABC News and SC Magazine
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