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Heartbleed:

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 …

More: existential type crisis, OpenSSL, NEWS.com.au, Tumblr Staff, The LastPass Blog, ZDNet, web.nvd.nist.gov, CloudFlare Blog, Tor, eWeek, ReadWrite, Heroku, US-CERT, The Register, Computerworld, Netcraft, Los Angeles Times, SSegurança, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Verge, Techdirt, SiliconANGLE, SC Magazine, PandoDaily, Agile Blog, SiliconBeat, Krebs on Security, Threatpost, Guardian, WP Engine, LinuxInsider, Fox-IT International blog, Giles Bowkett, Softpedia News, NextBigWhat, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, TechSpot, Forbes, Softpedia News, Twitter Status, VentureBreak, NGINX, The Tech Report, I4U News, Lifehacker, CoinReport, CoinDesk, PC Magazine, Daily Dot and Electronista

Tweets: @mattblaze, @neogeen, @ioerror, @calebgarling, @anildash, @iljawascoding, @asher_wolf, @eastdakota, @0xabad1dea, @ac3xx, @krisjelbring and @jruby

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:

Heartbleed: mundane coding error more devastating than fancy crypto attacks like BEAST, CRIME — Attack of the week: OpenSSL Heartbleed — Ouch. (Logo from heartbleed.com) — I start every lecture in my security class by asking the students to give us any interesting security …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ars Technica and SiliconANGLE

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?

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @wpwend42 and @dangillmor

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.

Tweets: @briankrebs

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Critical crypto bug in OpenSSL opens two-thirds of the Web to eavesdropping

More: GitHub, ZDNet and Naked Security

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.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

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.

More: Matt Mullenweg, Gigaom and inessential.com

Tweets: @joshuatopolsky and @carnage4life

Paul Mutton / Netcraft:

Survey says 6000+ websites still hosted on Windows XP, including 14 belonging to US government — Thousands of websites still hosted on Windows XP — Thousands of websites are still hosted on Windows XP computers, despite the operating system reaching the end of its extended support period today.

More: WinBeta, PC World and theWHIR.com

Mark Hachman / PC World:

Obituary: Windows XP passes away, leaving behind millions of mourning supporters

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 …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @scottmaustin

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Ballmer, Not Nadella, Gave The Go-Ahead To Ship Office For iPad, Which Has Racked Up 12M Downloads — Update: I'm hearing that while Ballmer did intend to ship Office for iPad, it was Nadella who picked the date. This makes the below comment technically true, but perhaps slightly confusing.

More: CITEworld, eWeek, PC Magazine, Macworld, GeekWire, ZDNet, 9to5Mac and WinBeta

Tweets: @monkbent and @tomwarren

Scotty Loveless / Overthought:

Apple Genius' iOS battery life guide: disable location and background refresh for Facebook, don't quit apps — The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain — Updated April 7, 2014: added Step 8 to the list. — Added Korean Translation (provided by Yoon Jiman)

More: NEWS.com.au, Computerworld, BGR, VentureBeat, The Next Web, bizjournals, iPhone in Canada Blog, Guardian, Softpedia News, Daily Dot, Softpedia News and Ubergizmo

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.

More: SiliconBeat, AllFacebook, Gigaom, Re/code, The Switch, VentureBeat and Inside Facebook

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.

More: Re/code, Fortune, Gigaom, StrictlyVC, Computerworld, VentureBeat, USA Today, TechSpot, Liliputing, PC World, SlashGear, Glass Almanac, The Technology Chronicles, CNET and Forbes. Tweets: @panzer

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Comcast preparing wireless service built on combination of Wi-Fi and leased cellular capacity — Comcast Quietly Preps Challenge to Wireless Carriers — Google isn't the only technology giant thinking of offering new mobile phone plans to unseat wireless giants.

More: The Verge, Gigaom, dailywireless.org and Business Insider

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

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple's Damages Expert Makes Case for Why Company Due $2.19 Billion From Samsung — An Apple-hired damages expert on Tuesday told the jury that the iPhone maker is owed $2.19 billion in damages for infringing five patents between August 2011 and the end of 2013.

More: The Verge, MacRumors, PC World, AppleInsider, Bloomberg and CNET

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 …

More: Daily Dot and Gizmodo. Tweets: @jasonsack and @nicoleperlroth

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.

More: MacRumors, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and Business Insider

Richard Byrne Reilly / VentureBeat:

U.S. Air Force is testing Google Glass & building apps for battlefield use (exclusive) — Above: Airforce test dummy wearing Google Glass — The U.S. Air Force's “BATMAN” research team at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is beta-testing Google Glass for possible use on the battlefield.

More: 9to5Google and Gigaom Research. Tweets: @tim. Thanks:@harrisonweber

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.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, HDTV News, The Verge, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Consumerist, InvestorPlace, PC Magazine, TechSpot, SlashGear, Gizmodo and VentureBeat

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 …

More: The Verge, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Gigaom, BGR, Softpedia News, Phandroid, Android Central and GSMArena Blog

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Gear Fit review: not as good as dedicated fitness trackers, weak battery life, notifications from Galaxy S5 work well

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal and Telegraph. Tweets: @wjrothman

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