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June 14, 2015, 11:45 PM

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Julie Bort / Business Insider:
How Facebook's Open Compute Project became a major force in data center hardware, with hundreds of companies, including HP, Foxconn, and Goldman Sachs on board  —  How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market  —  It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Startups look to compete with incumbents like Uber by focusing on niches like car-pooling and mass transit  —  New Ride Services Forge Own Specialized Paths  —  When Trae Vassallo's children hop in the car to head to their after-school sports practice in the San Francisco Bay Area several times a week …
Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat:
Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists of songs from past decades based on present-day preferences  —  Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists from the past  —  Spotify has soft-launched a new feature titled “Rewind.”
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Danielle Wiener-Bronner / Fusion:
Uber orders drivers to stay away from taxi protests in China, uses GPS to ensure they comply, threatens to cancel contracts if they don't  —  Uber is using GPS to punish drivers in China who get too close to protests  —  Uber is using their tracking devices to identify, and threaten …
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Chinese hackers have found a way to identify Tor and VPN users in the country by exploiting a vulnerability in server software used by popular Chinese portals  —  Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese hackers have found a way around widely used privacy technology …
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
After recent breaches, IRS promises to add additional security measures to protect against fraud and identity theft by early 2016  —  I.R.S. Adds New Safeguards to Thwart Identity Theft and Fraud  —  Reeling from an online attack that allowed criminals to steal personal information …
James Hookway / Wall Street Journal:
Vietnam's Internet penetration, enabled by smartphones, increased to 44% from 12% a decade ago, enabling a rapid growth of digital businesses  —  Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age  —  Smartphone use has dramatically increased Internet penetration and growth in online services
Facebook:
Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface  —  News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories  —  The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.

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