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Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of systems protected by vulnerable versions of OpenSSL — The Heartbleed Bug — The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
‘Heartbleed’ bug undoes Web encryption, reveals Yahoo passwords — A flaw in software that's widely used to secure Web communications means that passwords and other highly sensitive data could be exposed. Some say they've already found hundreds of Yahoo passwords.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Critical crypto bug in OpenSSL opens two-thirds of the Web to eavesdropping — For a more detailed analysis of this catastrophic bug, see this update, which went live about 18 hours after Ars published this initial post. — Researchers have discovered an extremely critical defect …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Vox: |
The Heartbleed Bug, explained — There was big news in the computer security world yesterday when researchers announced a massive vulnerability in popular web encryption software called OpenSSL. Major online service providers are scrambling to address the problem. What happened?| David Bellona / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter web gets new timeline filtering options, new profile design features ‘pinned’ and ‘best tweets’ — Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile — Moment by moment, your Twitter profile shows the world who you are.
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Rather than diminish the web, mobile apps build on and diversify it, enabling new experiences — Rethinking What We Mean by ‘Mobile Web’ — Chris Dixon, in a piece titled “The Decline of the Mobile Web”, citing stats from ComScore and Flurry: … I think Dixon has it all wrong.
| Chris Dixon / chris dixon's blog: |
Mobile app dominance vs. web will hurt long-term innovation, likely make web a niche product — The decline of the mobile web — People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: — And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: — This is a worrisome trend for the web.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion Selling Business Software Sans Salespeople — Atlassian, an Australian maker of online collaboration tools for businesses, is gunning for the same market as fast-growing startup Box Inc. And like Box, Atlassian is also now one of the world's … | Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Google launches Glass at Work program for businesses, courts enterprise developers — At Google, Bid to Put Its Glasses To Work — SAN FRANCISCO — At the 500 Club bar in the heart of the Mission district here, patrons are banned from wearing Google Glass.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon A9′s VP of Search heads to Apple to fix up Maps search — Benoit Dupin, Vice President of Amazon A9′s Search Technology group, has left the high-profile search technology firm to take up a job with Apple. Dupin's profile from Amazon A9′s executive management website disappeared …
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| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel: |
Netflix Starts To Stream In 4K — Offers ‘House Of Cards’ Season Two, Selection Of Nature Documentaries In Ultra HD — Netflix confirmed Sunday that the second season of House of Cards and “some nature documentaries” are now available for streaming in the 4K/Ultra HD format.
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung Gear Fit updated with option to enable vertical display orientation — The Gear Fit is one of the prettiest and most stylish fitness tracker you will ever come across, with a beautiful AMOLED display the window into its functions and features. However, the Gear Fit had one tiny limitation …
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Hackers are breaching corporate networks increasingly via third-party devices and software — Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines — SAN FRANCISCO — They came in through the Chinese takeout menu. — Unable to breach the computer network at a big oil company … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Ballmer, Not Nadella, Gave The Go-Ahead To Ship Office For iPad, Which Has Racked Up 12M Downloads — Office for iPad has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company.
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| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: Samsung outspent Apple on US mobile phone ads by $12M in 2013, down from $68M in 2012 — Apple Closes U.S. Ad-Spending Gap With Samsung — Samsung is the still the king of the U.S. smartphone marketing race, but the Korean giant's rivals closed its huge lead with an advertising blitz in 2013.| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Obituary: Windows XP passes away, leaving behind millions of mourning supporters — Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.'s beloved seventh major operating system and arguably the company's most successful, was left to perish on Tuesday at its creators' hands. It was 12 years, seven months old.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Farewell, Farecast: Microsoft kills airfare price predictor, to the dismay of its creator — One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago this month … Thanks:@toddbishop
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Reddit Execs Ellen Pao and Jena Donlin Get Serious About the Site's Business (Q&A) — Reddit is one of the biggest sites on the Web. Now it just needs to start making it rain. — Since 2005, the online community message board and link-sharing site has risen from an esoteric bulletin board service …
Tweets: @laurahazardowen
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Galaxy S5 review: more a refinement than a significant upgrade, waterproofing the only new good feature — Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Watertight Yet Still Not Quite Right — A Water-Resistant Phone That Doesn't Make a Splash — Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler took …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Admits Users Are Confused About Privacy, Will Show More On-Screen Explanations — Facebook today offered reporters a deep dive on how it handles privacy and previewed some upcoming changes. The company revealed it does 80 trillion privacy checks per day on the backend to make sure data isn't wrongly exposed.
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