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Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL, on a scale of 1 to 10, it is an 11 — Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: … Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K of memory.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Sources: Apple not interested in acquiring Square, Jack Dorsey not keen on selling to Google — A Sale or IPO or More Funding? Here's What Might Be Next for Square. — Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Quora Raises $80M Led by Tiger Global, Now Valued at $900M — Q&A startup Quora, while not quite the buzzy Silicon Valley startup it was when it first started, has nonetheless joined the club of extremely richly valued startups raising money from East Coast hedge funds.
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Kabbage, A Loan Platform For Small Merchants, Gets $270M Credit Facility On ‘Dramatic’ Growth — Kabbage, a platform for online merchants to borrow working capital, is picking up some cabbage of its own: the startup has closed a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities …
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel closes Costa Rica operation, cuts 1,500 jobs — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel, struggling with a shrinking personal computer market, is shutting its assembly and test operation in Costa Rica and eliminating 1,500 jobs, a spokesman said on Tuesday. — The closure of the site …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Launches New $40 “Simple Starter” Plan With Unlimited Talk and Text and Half a Gig of Data — T-Mobile on Wednesday introduced a new entry-level $40-per-month plan that includes unlimited talk and text along with 500MB of high-speed data. — Unlike other T-Mobile plans … | 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.
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| Troy Wolverton / Mercury News: |
Startup Prodea offers operating system for the ‘smart’ home — Imagine a system that unlocks the doors and turns on the lights when your adolescent son arrives home and doesn't allow him to watch anything on the TV until after he watches an educational video and notifies you at your office when he's completed it.
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Report: Amazon tops Hulu and Apple to become third largest video streaming service after Netflix and YouTube — Amazon Rising - Amazon's Streaming Video Surpasses Hulu and Apple — “Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple's Damages Expert Makes Case for Why Company Is 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.| Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
India's Flipkart Nears $330M Myntra Deal, As Common Investors Push To Fight Amazon, eBay — India's biggest e-commerce company, Flipkart, is in the final stages of completing a merger deal with the country's fast growing online fashion retailer Myntra, in what could potentially create … | 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.
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| iFixit: |
Samsung Gear 2 Teardown — Ring ring! Ring ring! Your cell phone rings. You know you should answer it, but it's all the way in your pocket, and the thought of reaching down, pulling it out, tapping a button, reaching up to your ear, and talking just sounds plain exhausting. But never fear!
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Intel, SGI team up on proof-of-concept supercomputer using 3M's dielectric Novec coolant — Intel, 3M, SGI eye new data center coolant — Summary: 3M's Novec fluid combined with two-phase immersion cooling could shrink data center footprints and consume a lot less energy.| 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)
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