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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal New York Times story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads — The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a recent report on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos …
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Thanks:@taylor_soper. See also Mediagazer| Nick Ciubotariu / LinkedIn Pulse: |
An Amazonian's response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Disclaimer and proviso: “The postings on this site are my own and don't represent Amazon's position in any way whatsoever”. — Update: I really appreciate the notes of thanks this post has received, here and on other social media avenues.
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See also Mediagazer| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Photo of LG's Nexus 5 leaks online, after renders of both LG and Huawei Nexus devices surfaced over the weekend — This could be Google's new Nexus 5 smartphone, built by LG — We waved goodbye to the Nexus 5 when Google stopped selling its 2013 flagship Android smartphone earlier this year …
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| Mic Wright / The Next Web: |
Facebook Notes revamp set to battle Medium and Twitter — Facebook Notes has been one of the sprawling social network's least looked after features. It has sat there for years largely unloved and useless, like Facebook's appendix, serving no purpose yet apt to explode and spill its toxic contents everywhere.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM to build LinuxONE mainframes running Ubuntu Linux in partnership with Canonical; IBM joins Linux Foundation's new Open Mainframe Project — IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes — You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence …
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| Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic: |
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms — The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay — On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors … | M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Avoid being featured in the App Store at launch: your app will likely have issues and first-time users won't give you a second chance — Avoid the Feature — Early on, all those downloads are not your friend — It's right there, like a glittering lure in a dark sea. An email from Apple.| Grace Caffyn / CoinDesk: |
Former Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen, others launch Bitcoin XT fork amidst heated community discussions over how to avoid 1MB block “capacity cliff” — Bitcoin ‘Forked’ in Controversial Bid to Resolve Scalability Question — Two of bitcoin's best-known developers … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How distributed reflective DoS can amplify attacks while hiding the attacker's identity by exploiting weaknesses in the open BitTorrent protocol — How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites — uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze most susceptible to DoS abuse, researchers say.
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| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
New privilege escalation exploit discovered in OS X Yosemite, also affects just-released 10.10.5 — Just days after patching the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release, Apple's desktop operating system has been hit with yet another zero-day exploit that would allow …
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Rambus, known for its many patent infringement lawsuits against chip makers, plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time — Rambus Expands With Its Own Chip Brand — Rambus is announcing plans to sell chips under its own brand for the first time in its 25-year history.
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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