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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame — Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks - it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Over 100M records from Russian social media site VK, with unencrypted passwords, full names, emails, and phone numbers, on sale by hacker named Peace for 1BTC — Accounts for over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being traded on the digital underground.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cortana arrives on Xbox One for preview members — Microsoft is releasing a new Xbox One update for its preview members today, and it includes access to Cortana for the first time. While Microsoft had originally planned to introduce Cortana for Xbox One last year, the company delayed … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
After acquisition by Google, Nest got “virtually unlimited budget”, quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now — Nest quadrupled its employees, launched no new products, and caused constant bad PR.
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| Jack Smith IV / Mic: |
Jacob Appelbaum, Digital Rights Activist, Leaves Tor Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations — On Thursday, the Tor Project quietly announced the departure of leading digital rights activist Jacob Appelbaum from its board. At first, they didn't say why — now, we know.
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| Mike Freeman / Los Angeles Times: |
American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity — An American Airlines jet sits at the gate at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press) — ViaSat Inc. will provide satellite-powered Wi-Fi …
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| Antonio García Martínez / Vanity Fair: |
Ex-Facebook employee reflects on company's culture and how Mark Zuckerberg responded to the launch of Google+ by enforcing a company “lockdown” — In Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect.
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| Joshua Chambers / GovInsider: |
UK's Government Digital Service decided apps were too expensive to build and maintain, went with responsive websites; Treasury says $8.2B was saved over 4 years — “That sounds horrendous,” says Ben Terrett, the former head of design at the UK Government Digital Service.
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| Josh Horwitz / Quartz: |
Startups can't explain what they do because they're addicted to meaningless jargon — Internet startup culture has evolved and matured over the past five years, and there's no better example of this than the RISE conference happening this week in Hong Kong.| Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press: |
Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts — TVER, Russia (AP) — Anastasia Bubeyeva shows a screenshot on her computer of a picture of a toothpaste tube with the words: “Squeeze Russia out of yourself!” For sharing this picture on a social media site with his 12 friends … | Rita Katz / Motherboard: |
Someone is distributing fake versions of ISIS Android apps, prompting infiltration fears among terror group's supporters — When they say, “There's an app for everything,” terror propaganda is no exception. In the past six months, the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, or Daesh) and its news agency …
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| Reuters: |
France is seeking €356M from Priceline's Booking.com for unpaid taxes between 2003 and 2012, SEC filing shows — French tax authorities are seeking 356 million euros ($397.37 million) in unpaid taxes from Booking.com, a unit of Priceline Group (PCLN.O), the latest multinational …
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