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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
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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Palo Alto Networks Blog, MacRumors, Ars Technica, The Register, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, The Next Web, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, The Overspill, CNET, Insanely Great Mac, The Mac Security Blog, The Verge, TorrentFreak, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Tech Insider, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Engadget, MacNN, CSO, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and Ars Technica UK
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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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The Verge, TechRepublic, CNN, TechCrunch, The Register, International Business Times, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Yahoo Tech, SlashGear, Business Insider, The Hacker News, Gizmo Times, Fortune, BetaNews, The Daily Dot, Ubergizmo, Newsy, SiliconANGLE, ITWire.com, Quartz, Neowin, TechSpot, The Huffington Post and Engadget
Tweets: @vgcerf, @gmail, @betterweather, @dotmudge, @craigcalcaterra, @philiped, @katiehafner and @raju
| 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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The Register, Engadget, CNET, SlashGear, iMore, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Re/code, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, The Verge and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @reneritchie, @caseyliss and @jury
| Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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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Forbes and TechCrunch
| 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 …
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BuzzFeed, Uber Under the Hood, The Verge, BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Engadget
| 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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The Mozilla Blog and The Stack
| 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 … | Brian Armstrong: |
Coinbase CEO: Core team is a systemic risk that can lead to Bitcoin collapse this year; switch to Bitcoin Classic now, then look for more scalable solutions — What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable — Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee …
| Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Spotify's new Fresh Finds playlists leverage hundreds of music blogs and review sites it crawls and its own early adopter users — Spotify is using 50,000 anonymous hipsters to find your next favorite song — Spotify's personalized Discover Weekly playlist has won millions of fans … | Bloomberg Business: |
China is building software to collate data on citizens' jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and more to predict terrorist acts — China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime — Beijing wants to identify subversives before they strike. — Shai Oster — China's effort to flush out threats … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Amazon reverses course, says it is bringing back support for device encryption to tablets running Fire OS via a software update due this spring — Amazon reverses course on encryption for its Fire tablets — It's been only one day since — in the midst of a debate over encrypted devices … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Samsung has reduced jobs at Milk Music, likely to shut down service soon — Samsung Likely to Shutter Milk Music Service; Considering Tidal Deal (Exclusive) — Samsung is getting close to making a major announcement in the music space, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the plans.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
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BetaNews, hypebot, FACT Magazine, TalkAndroid.com, SlashGear, The Wrap, AndroidHeadlines.com and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@jank0
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