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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Apple Finally Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data — All of those questions, messages, and stern commands that people have been whispering to Siri are stored on Apple servers for up to two years, Wired can now report. — Yesterday, we raised concerns about some fuzzy disclosures in Siri's privacy policy.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Julian Assange's secret chat with Google's chairman — Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. — Eric Schmidt met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in secret in 2011, according to the transcript … | WikiLeaks: |
Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt — On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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IBM in Talks to Sell Part of Its Server Unit to Lenovo — International Business Machines Corp. is looking to part ways with the servers that have powered much of the Internet. — The company is in advanced discussions to sell its so-called x86 server business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IBM's potential x86 server sale to Lenovo highlights oncoming train — Summary: IBM famously unloaded its PC business to Lenovo well before the post PC era hit. Is Big Blue bailing on commodity servers before the floor falls out? — IBM is reportedly talking to Lenovo about selling …
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| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
China's Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store — KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. — Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a no-jailbreak-needed alternative …
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| Stuart Thomas / memeburn: |
Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack — Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. — Anyone who did manage to access the site meanwhile was greeted with a warning stating that: “Site availability is being impacted by a malicious DDoS attack.| Dan Whitcomb / Reuters: |
LulzSec hacker receives year in prison for Sony breach — A hacker who pleaded guilty last year to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was sentenced on Thursday in Los Angeles to a year in prison, followed by home detention, federal prosecutors said.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Osito for iPhone: can this minimalist Google Now clone make a splash before the real thing? — There is no shortage of Google Now clones for iPhone, but none of them successfully emulate Google's concise and tasteful representation of data. Tempo focuses too much on being a “smart” calendar …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date — Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows. — On April 18, Microsoft didn't share the one number …
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| Alex Hern / New Statesman: |
Reddit, Boston and the missing student — When crowdsourcing goes wrong. — The FBI's two suspect photos. … On 16 March, Sunil Tripathi, a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, went missing, leaving behind a cryptic note. His whereabouts are still unknown …
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Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2013 Results — Google Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. “We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14.0 billion in revenue, up 31% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
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| Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online: |
Now, With No Further Ado, We Present ... the Digital Public Library of America! — Three questions with the project's executive director — Benjamin Sewall Blake jumping, ca. 1888. Francis Blake, photographer. (Massachusetts Historical Society) — Two-and-a-half years ago …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Where's Twitter Music For Android? Why Today's Tech Companies Are Still Going iOS First — Where is Twitter Music for Android? With today's launch of Twitter's new music discovery platform, the company has again made a move to sideline the install base of around half of the U.S.'s smartphone audience … | Paul Foy / Associated Press: |
Google Buying $39M Fiber Service In Utah For $1 — Google Inc. will pay $1 for a municipal fiber-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo. The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google leak hints at an Android game center with multiplayer, chat, lobbies, leaderboards, and achievements — Google appears to be preparing the launch of a game center for Android with an unknown name. It looks like the new hub will sport a slew of features, including multiplayer support …
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Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweets — Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter in May. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying … Sponsor Posts
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