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Ashley Madison's data breach could have profound consequences for users and will likely be catastrophic for the company — The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump — Massive data breaches have become so routine as to become background noise.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Internal Ashley Madison documents found in hackers' data dump, confirms at least some of the data is real — Ashley Madison hack is not only real, it's worse than we thought — Intimate data for more then 30 million accounts, keys to Windows domain published.
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Tweets: @siralexmurphy and @jasonthomas
| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Ashley Madison's $19 ‘Full Delete’ Option Made The Company Millions — The hacked cheating site sold peace of mind to tens of thousands of users. — Ashley Madison, the hacked affairs site, made nearly $2 million dollars off of its so-called “Full Delete” function in 2014, according to private company documentation leaked yesterday.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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See also Mediagazer| Sam Biddle / Gawker: |
Snapchat lost $128M and generated only $3M in revenue between January and November of 2014, according to leaked financials — Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year — In 2013, teenage attention-pit Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook, which is only not an insane …
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| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Report: BlackBerry Venice Android slider to launch on all four major US carriers in November — Return of the keyboard: BlackBerry Venice with Android expected in November — With all four U.S carriers rumored to carry the sliding keyboard phone, it surely would have to run Android.
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| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Intel Skylake CPU details revealed: These faster, more power-efficient chips can even drive three 4K monitors — Skylake-based laptops should offer a nice boost over today's Broadwell laptops, and here's why. — After weeks of teasing us, Intel finally lifted the kilt to show us details of its 6th generation CPU.| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Meet Ring, the connected door bell company that just scored Richard Branson as an investor — Jamie Siminoff, CEO of Ring, a maker of a video doorbell, is proof that a missed connection isn't the worst thing that can happen to an entrepreneur. — Fourteen years ago he met Richard Branson … | Amin Vahdat / Google Research Blog: |
How Google's networking infrastructure has evolved over ten years and five generations to deliver more than 1 petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth — Pulling Back the Curtain on Google's Network Infrastructure — Pursuing Google's mission of organizing the world's information …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Alex Rampell, co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay which was acquired by Visa this year, joins Andreessen Horowitz as general partner — With an Eye on Fintech, Andreessen Horowitz Adds a New General Partner — The leaders of Andreessen Horowitz believe that experience is the best teacher.
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn is launching a new app called ‘Lookup’ to help you quickly find and text coworkers — After failing to buy $50 billion Salesforce, Microsoft has suddenly become its hottest competitor — In April, LinkedIn got some interesting data about the way people used its service.| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Lightning strikes Google Compute Engine data center in Belgium; services disrupted and 0.000001% of data lost — Lightning in Belgium Disrupts Google Cloud Services — Not even the mighty Google data centers are immune from acts of god it turns out. — A series of successive lightning strikes … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Is Opening A YouTube Production Studio In Mumbai, India — There's good news for aspiring YouTube stars in India after Google announced its first YouTube Space for the country. Located in Mumbai, the production facility — the second of its kind in Asia — will be hosted …
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Official Google India Blog, SlashGear, USA Today, International Business Times and Tech Times. Thanks:@dadhiloba. See also Mediagazer
| Cam Bunton / 9to5Mac: |
KGI: Apple 12.9-inch iPad Pro to feature optional Force Touch compatible stylus, 2015 shipments in the 4-5.5M range — According to respected and generally reliable analyst Ming Chi-Kuo from KGI Securities, Apple's long-awaited 12.9-inch iPad Pro will feature Force Touch stylus support …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Vaio will begin selling Z Canvas PCs in Microsoft Stores in US from October, prices start at $2,199 — Remember Vaio Computers? They're Making a Comeback — Vaio, Sony's former unprofitable PC business, is attempting a comeback. Vaio Corp. plans to start selling laptops …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp launches a desktop web app for iPhone users, can work in conjunction with mobile to mirror real-time conversations — WhatsApp's web client now works for iPhone users too — WhatsApp's web client is finally arriving for iOS users, eight months after it first arrived for Android.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases third Windows Server 2016 preview, adding support for Windows Containers, which are part of the Docker open source project — Microsoft to deliver third Windows Server 2016 preview with Windows Container support — Microsoft is making available Windows Server 2016 Preview 3 … | TechCrunch: |
The 50 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1 — Hardware took the spotlight at today's Y Combinator Demo Day, reflecting a major shift of the accelerator beyond the cliche mobile app startup. Out of the 50 companies from the Summer 2015 batch that demoed on the record today, 20 featured hardware.
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