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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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New York Daily News, The Next Web, BGR, Inquirer, USA Today, Fortune, AppleInsider, CSO, Forbes, 9to5Mac, Apple News aus Cupertino, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, CNET, Talking New Media, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, MacRumors, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Re/code, Mashable, Tech Times, 9to5Mac, The Register, The Verge, iMore, MAC" blog, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog and Gizmodo 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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| 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 … | 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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TechCrunch and Forbes
| 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| 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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The Mozilla Blog and The Stack
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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