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Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments, breached; attackers release 400GB of internal documents, source code, and emails — Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data — Firm made famous for helping governments spy on their citizens left exposed| Wall Street Journal: |
SEC investigating improper selling of private tech stocks including employee-owned shares — Regulators Probe Marketing of Hot Private Tech Shares — Trading of such shares has boomed in recent months — Securities regulators have launched a broad investigation into whether hedge funds …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Debuts Dedicated Mobile Apps For Its Dropbox Competitor, Cloud Drive — Amazon has quietly expanded its Cloud Drive service - a competitor to Dropbox, Google Drive and other online file hosting services - to mobile platforms, with the release of dedicated apps on iTunes, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft will finalize Windows 10 RTM build this week to send to OEMs ahead of July 29 launch — Microsoft to finalize Windows 10 this week — Microsoft is planning to finalize Windows 10 this week, ahead of its official launch later this month.
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BGR, PCWorld, CNET, Neowin, BetaNews, WinBeta, Pureinfotech, TechSpot, MSDN Blogs, Ubergizmo, Windows Central, The Tech Report, blog.chron.com and Tech Times
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Instagram is now storing photos in 1080x1080 resolution instead of 640x640, likely in preparation for a public upgrade soon — Instagram photos are now bigger — if you know where to look — Just over a week ago, I wrote plaintively about Instagram's archaic 640 x 640 resolution and the need …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Fone Arena, Wired.co.uk, Ubergizmo and Yahoo Tech
| Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Waze to test carpooling service in Israel; drivers limited to 2 rides a day, can charge for gas, car wear and tear, but not generate profit — Google Tests Carpooling Service for Commuters in Israel — Google has thrown its hat into the hotly contested ride-sharing ring …
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Tech.eu, USA Today, Reuters, Haaretz, Marketing Land, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, 9to5Google, Phandroid, VentureBeat, The Next Web and WebProNews. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Kevin Fitchard / Fortune: |
The economics of inflight Wi-Fi: why prices and speeds vary so widely — The crazy economics of inflight Wi-Fi — It's summer time, and that means millions of Americans will soon make their way to airports across the country. An amenity featured on more and more flights these days …
Tweets: @gigastacey and @kfitchard
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
A media platform based on blockchain will arrive soon, which unlike Reddit or Twitter can't be policed — The Decentral Authority — We've been big fans of Reddit since it was part of the first Y Combinator class ten years ago this summer. We've watched closely as it emerged as a community powered mostly by its users.
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| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg Business: |
Court overturns the second conviction of Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov charged with stealing high-frequency trading code — ‘Flash Boys’ Programmer in Goldman Case Prevails Second Time … A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer who took the firm's high-frequency trading code …
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| Xiomara Blanco / CNET: |
Dell Venue 10 7000 review: refined build quality, slick performance, make it one of the finest Android tablet-hybrids around — Dell Venue 10 7000 — The Dell Venue 10 7000 truly feels like a tablet-laptop hybrid. As a standalone tablet, its stylish build is elevated by an ergonomic quirk …
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CRN, Computerworld, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com and AnandTech
| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Why YouTube's recommendation algorithm began prioritizing watch time instead of views in 2012 — The ‘terrifying’ moment in 2012 when YouTube changed its entire philosophy — Although there wasn't any Roman-style backstabbing, YouTubers will remember the Ides of March 2012 as a traumatic day in the company's history.| The Intercept: |
New documents show XKEYSCORE, NSA's Google-like tool, collects more data than previously reported including web searches and router configuration information — XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications — Illustrations by Blue Delliquanti and David Axe for The Intercept
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Silicon Republic, TechSpot, CoinTelegraph.Com News, Business Insider, Engadget and CNET
Tweets: @the_intercept, @just_security, @ggreenwald, @emptywheel, @rj_gallagher and @attackerman
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