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Mashable:

The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now — An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day …

More: Graham Cluley, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Help Net Security, Forbes, BBC, Guardian, TUAW, AVC, Lifehacker, The Daily Caller, PayPal Forward, ExtremeTech, The Register, iPhone Hacks, Office of Inadequate Security and The Awl

Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:

Man who introduced serious ‘Heartbleed’ security flaw denies he inserted it deliberately — Researchers have disclosed a serious vulnerability in standard web encryption software OpenSSL. — The German software developer who introduced a security flaw into an encryption protocol used …

More: Guardian, ReadWrite, The Technology Chronicles, The Verge, InfoWorld, Daily Dot, SlashGear and Softpedia News. Tweets: @mathewi

Amber Gott / The LastPass Blog:

LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed — Yesterday we informed our community of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug. In our blog post, we explained how this security issue impacted our service and what our users should know about the situation.

More: Forbes, PC Magazine, BBC, Computerworld, Electronic Frontier Foundation, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, SecurityWeek, BloggingPro, Gotta Be Mobile, New York Times and Engadget. Tweets: @mathewi

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Heartbleed bug puts the chaotic nature of the Internet under the magnifying glass

More: New York Times, New Yorker, Mojang, The Switch, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

Tweets: @puellavulnerata and @rondeibert

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA

More: Wired and Nextgov

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

KGI forecast: iWatch at multiple price points, two iPhone models, 12" high resolution MacBook Air, 12.9" iPad Pro, more — Apple's 2014 Product Roadmap: New iWatch, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MacBooks Coming — Apple is set to release a slew of new products during the third quarter …

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:

EBay Settles Board Fight With Icahn — It began as the biggest hedge fund fight of the year, but is ending with a quiet truce. — EBay announced on Thursday that it had reached a settlement with the billionaire Carl C. Icahn, putting an end to an often bitter feud between the two sides.

More: Re/code, PandoDaily, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Forbes, Reuters, The Verge, Pulse 2.0 and Bloomberg

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Project Ara's Module Developers Kit released, provides guidelines for module manufacturers — Here are some of the crazy phones you can build with Google's Project Ara — Google is starting to show developers what they need to do to create swappable parts for its upcoming modular smartphones, currently called Project Ara.

More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Google ATAP, Electronista, TechSpot, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Android Community, AndroidHeadlines.com and Engadget

John Chen / Inside BlackBerry:

BlackBerry is Not Leaving the Handset Market: John Chen clarifies — John Chen clarifies a recent Reuters article and reiterates that BlackBerry is Not Leaving the Handset Market — Yesterday, Reuters published an article that said I would consider selling our Devices business.

More: AppleInsider, Re/code, The Next Web, BGR, ZDNet, Fox News, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News and CNET

Reuters:

BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments

More: Guardian, Computerworld, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Inquirer, ctvnews.ca, The Register, TechSpot, TheStreet.com, SlashGear, Electronista, CrackBerry.com, MobileBurn.com, Engadget and I4U News

iFixit:

Samsung Galaxy S5 Teardown — Every so often, our Earth-bound teardown team gazes skyward. Today, we look to take the Samsung Galaxy S5 to pieces. Will this device be immortalized among the stars of repairability—or will it plummet to the ground like a blazing meteorite?

More: Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, Inquirer, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, Phones Review, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, Gotta Be Mobile and Android Central

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Customer service giant Zendesk plans to raise $150M in IPO — Zendesk, maker of customer service software, just announced its plans to go public and raise as much as $150 million. — The news, revealed in a standard S-1 form, follows IPO interest from numerous tech heavyweights, including Box and Dropbox.

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, Business Wire and StreetInsider.com

Fahmida Y. Rashid / SecurityWeek:

Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier — BOSTON - SOURCE CONFERENCE - Data is a natural consequence of computing, and as search tools get better, it shifts the balance of power towards mass collection and surveillance, renowned security expert Bruce Schneier …

More: Softpedia News, CRN and Threatpost. Thanks:@wiredmike

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

IBM snatches up Silverpop as marketing automation landgrab continues — IBM is buying Silverpop, an Atlanta-based marketing automation software provider, in the latest example of maneuvering by major IT vendors to capture more marketing IT spend. — The idea behind this deal …

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, IBM, NASDAQ.com, MediaPost and Forrester Blogs

Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

IAB: $43 Billion In 2013 Digital Ad Revenue, Mobile Doubles — The IAB has just released its annual report on US digital advertising. The trade association said that Q4 2013 revenues hit $12.1 billion and full year revenues were $42.8 billion, beating broadcast TV (though not TV in total) for the first time.

More: IAB, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and Mashable

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

The story of a female employee who shared on Secret that she was left out when Google acquired her 5-person startup — The Secret Shame of an Unacquired Tech Worker — Last week, amid the overwrought start-up angst and sexual escapades that clutter the anonymous messaging app Secret …

More: Business Insider and TechPresident. Tweets: @ireneau, @brianbergstein, @nymag, @ashleymayer, @skimbrel, @kevinroose, @nytfridge, @kevinroose, @moorehn, @hilarygreenbaum, @mims, @caro, @parmy and @anildash

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Lending Startup Fundbox Raises $17.5M From Khosla To Help SMBs Improve Cash Flow — Fundbox, a startup that helps SMBs improve cash flow from clients, has raised $17.5 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures with SV Angel, Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup; Tom Glocer …

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, GeekTime, Wall Street Journal, Finextra Research news, Payments News, Forbes, Mashable, Pulse 2.0 and PandoDaily. Thanks:@drs650

Derek Kessler / Android Central:

T-Mobile offers up LTE tablets for the price of Wi-Fi models, free data through 2014 — Yesterday T-Mobile introduced a new Simple Starter plan that could get you in the cellular door at $40/month, and today they're shaking things up again by reducing the price of their cellular-enabled tablets …

More: iMore, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Re/code, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile, PhoneDog.com, Bidness Etc, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo and TmoNews

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Jony Ive shakes up Apple's software design group, iPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing — Following friction between top Apple Human Interface Vice President Greg Christie and Senior Vice President Jony Ive, Apple's hardware and software design is being dramatically shaken up, according to sources familiar with the matter.

More: TechCrunch, USA Today, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, Geeky Gadgets, TechSpot, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Silicon Republic, MacNN, Guardian, The Guardian, Softpedia News, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, Inquirer, Reuters, Re/code, TUAW, PC World and The Register. Thanks:@ajorama

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Jony Ive Expands Role in Software Design; Apple Confirms Greg Christie's Retirement

More: Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @jyarow and @kbaxter

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

CNN Digital Studios launching bite-sized video news series for viewing and sharing on Twitter — Why CNN Is Launching A News Show Built For Twitter — As every media company from Yahoo to Microsoft to Crackle looks to up the amount of original Web video it produces, here comes CNN.

More: Daily Dot and SocialTimes

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Franken: Comcast called Time Warner Cable a competitor until they wanted to merge — Comcast has repeatedly said the biggest reason US regulators should approve its $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC) is that the two companies do not compete against each other.

More: VentureBeat and Fortune

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Analyzing Comcast's argument for taking over Time Warner Cable

More: DSLreports, Softpedia News and corporate.comcast.com. See also Mediagazer

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