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First known ransomware for Mac users arrives via infected Transmission BitTorrent client; Apple revokes developer certificate that enabled infected installs — Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend …
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| Craig Federighi / Washington Post: |
Apple SVP Craig Federighi: FBI wants to roll back safeguards that serve as a “critical line of defense against criminals” — Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us a step ahead of criminals — Craig Federighi is senior vice president of software engineering at Apple.
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| Sydney Morning Herald: |
Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, dies at 74 from suspected heart attack — Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson dead at 74 — Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson. — Raymond Tomlinson, the godfather of email, died Saturday morning of a suspected heart attack. He was 74.
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple loses Supreme Court appeal in ebook price-fixing case, must pay $450M — Apple Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in $450 Million E-Book Case — Apple Inc. must pay $450 million to end an antitrust suit after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a finding that the company orchestrated …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Uber, responding to customer service leak, says it received five rape claims and fewer than 170 sexual assault claims from December 2012 to August 2015 — Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints — BuzzFeed News obtains internal data on rapes and sexual assaults lodged … | Matt Levine / BloombergView.com: |
How mutual funds value unicorns they invest in and what the recent write-downs mean — Unicorns Aren't So Beloved Anymore — The way a bubble works is, people get enthusiastic about a thing, so they buy a lot of it, and its price goes up. Then people realize the price is too high …
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BlackRock, Fidelity, T. Rowe, and Wellington funds own stakes in at least 40 unicorns, 13 of them now valued 28% below the original purchase price on average — Mutual Funds Sour on Startup Investments — Fidelity, BlackRock and other giants cut value of their stakes at faster pace, make fewer new investments| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Medium plans publisher monetization within a month, considers paywalls and premium content — Popular long-form blogging platform Medium has given the biggest hint yet as to how and when it will let publishers monetize their content. — Medium founder Evan Williams — who also cofounded Twitter … | Reuters: |
Sources: Commerce Department to place export restrictions on ZTE due to Iran sanctions violations, making it difficult for the firm to buy products from US — U.S. Commerce Department to place restrictions on China's ZTE — The U.S. Commerce Department is set to place export restrictions … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla tests the waters for Firefox OS IoT apps, including a Samantha-style virtual assistant — Back in December, Mozilla called it a day with its failed Firefox OS for mobile business, and said it would pivot the technology into a new Internet of Things strategy.
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| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
Roofstock, an online marketplace for buying and selling already leased single-tenant homes, raises $13.25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — This Startup Wants to Help You Become an Absentee Landlord — There are a lot of startups that operate using the same fundamental principle … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35M fine to settle US privacy probe for not disclosing its use of “supercookies” to users between 2012 and 2014 — Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35 million fine to settle U.S. privacy probe — Verizon Communications Inc will pay a $1.35 million fine …
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