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Sources: FTC looking into claims Apple treats rival music streaming services in its app store illegally under antitrust law — FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store — U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment …
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Sam Altman announces Ellen Pao's resignation to Reddit, begins AMA — An old team at reddit — Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement. I'm delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is returning as CEO.
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See also Mediagazer| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Ellen Pao out as Reddit CEO, co-founder and original CEO Steve Huffman takes over immediately; Pao to remain as adviser to the board through end of 2015 — Pao Out as Reddit CEO; Co-Founder Huffman Takes Over — Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit's CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure …
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Behind the new Crypto War: governments and tech companies face off over encryption backdoors — The rise of the new Crypto War — James B. Comey, Jr., the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is afraid of the dark. — “The law hasn't kept pace with technology … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New study finds 90% of tech patent lawsuits in first half of 2015 were filed by patent trolls — Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high — Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.” — New patent statistics show that patent litigation …
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| Katherine Rushton / Daily Mail: |
Google has received over 281K right to be forgotten requests to remove 1.1M links, deleted 602K of them — More than 280,000 people ask Google for the right to be forgotten and request more than a MILLION pages are wiped from the search engine's results — The massive scale …
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| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Exploit for second Flash vulnerability found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expects to release a fix in the next week — Second Flash Player zero-day exploit found in Hacking Team's data — The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers.
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| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: |
How Marketplace Lite, a coders-for-hire team, salvaged healthcare.gov after the “tech surge” — The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America — Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition.
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| Amy Phillips / Pitchfork: |
Apple created music videos in-house with Drake, Pharrell, Eminem, and M.I.A. for Apple Music — M.I.A. Audiovisual Project “Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border” Coming to Apple Music — The launch of Apple Music hasn't only included a new radio station, social network, and streaming service.| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Apple signs lease on 300K-square-foot campus in north San Jose, former Atmel headquarters, marking first major entry into the city in decades — Exclusive: Apple signs major lease in north San Jose, marking first significant entry into city — It's not the “Spaceship.”
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| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Open Whisper Systems' founder Moxie Marlinspike, whose encryption software alarms governments unable to crack it — Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts — Dreadlocked programmer has spooked the FBI by creating a tool that police can't crack| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
First look: iOS 9 public beta is the update the iPad deserves — A smallish update for phones is a Mac-sized leap for tablets. — Up until now, Apple has kept beta versions of major iOS releases locked away behind its $99-a-year developer paywall. You didn't need to actually be a developer …
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