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GCHQ spied on WikiLeaks visitors; NSA discussed targeting WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay, and Anonymous — Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters — Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal …
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See also Mediagazer| FaryaabS / SamMobile: |
Samsung Galaxy S5 to have swipe-style fingerprint sensor in home button, support 8 fingerprints for app shortcuts, website logins — Explained: Samsung's implementation of the fingerprint sensor on the upcoming Galaxy S5 — Yes, you heard it right folks!
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ZDNet, Telegraph, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, Electronista, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, CNET, AndroidOS.in, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Android Central, The Hacker News, Ubergizmo, Android Community, The Droid Guy, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Android Beat, Phandroid, Geeky Gadgets, PhoneArena and AmongTech. Tweets: @lauraebcremer
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Here Comes the Candy Crush IPO! After a $1.9 Billion Year, King Gets Ready to Go Public — Candy Crush isn't just a crazily addictive time-waster: It's also a really, really big business. Now the company behind it wants to go public. King Digital Entertainment, the Irish publisher behind Candy Crush …
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| Bloomberg: |
Talks for including Netflix on Time Warner set-top boxes are on hold after Comcast deal announcement — Netflix Talks for Time Warner Cable Carriage Said to Slow — Netflix Inc. (NFLX)'s effort to secure a place for its video-subscription service on Time Warner Cable Inc. set-top boxes …
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DSLreports, Gizmodo, I4U News, SlashGear, Ars Technica and The Verge
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A profile of Deborah Liu, the woman behind Facebook's fast-growing mobile app install ads — Meet The Woman Behind One Of Facebook's Fastest-Growing And Most Lucrative New Businesses — Deborah Liu has nurtured the social network's Mobile App Install Ad product from concept to hundreds … | Phil Wahba / Reuters: |
First U.S. bitcoin ATMs to open soon in Seattle, Austin — (Reuters) - Robocoin said on Tuesday that later this month it will install the first automated teller machines in the United States that let users buy and sell bitcoin, the latest step into the mainstream for the digital currency.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iTunes Connect update brings modernized look, sales breakdowns by category, region and more — Sales data redacted. — Apple today updated the Sales and Trends section of iTunes Connect, giving developers more detailed information about the origin of their apps' sales as well as a modernized visual style.
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| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Exploit released for vulnerability targeted by Linksys router worm — Technical details about a vulnerability in Linksys routers that's being exploited by a new worm have been released Sunday along with a proof-of-concept exploit and a larger than earlier expected list of potentially vulnerable device models.| Lee Schlesinger / Computerworld: |
Only 3% of users access Google via IPv6 as IPv4 address scarcity still not an immediate crisis — Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis? — In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries.
| John Rath / Data Center Knowledge: |
Intel Launches Hadoop-Powered Big Data Platform — Intel has launched a Big Data platform atop its Hadoop distribution. — Expanding its investment in a growing a big data portfolio Intel (INTC) launched the Intel Data Platform, a software suite based on open source technologies designed … | Tom Krazit / Gigaom: |
Some day Silicon Valley will move north. Here's why it should settle in Oakland — Silicon Valley is both a metaphor for the entire tech industry and a real place that is (on a rare good day) an hour south of San Francisco. It's the longtime home to some of the world's most important …
Tweets: @tomkrazit
| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba & others sink $100M into Asia's language-learning service TutorGroup (exclusive) — Online education provider TutorGroup has closed a massive $100 million in second round funding from Asia-based investors. — VentureBeat has exclusively learned that online shopping juggernaut Alibaba … Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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