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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 …
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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.| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Heartbleed bug puts the chaotic nature of the Internet under the magnifying glass — A major flaw revealed this week in widely used encryption software has highlighted one of the enduring — and terrifying — realities of the Internet: It is inherently chaotic, built by multitudes and continuously tweaked …
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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.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Dropbox unveils Carousel for organizing your photos and videos — Dropbox today announced Carousel, a product to store and manage your photos and videos. It incorporates features from Snapjoy, a photo startup that Dropbox acquired in December 2012. The launch of Carousel represents a bid …
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The Dropbox Blog, InfoWorld, ITworld.com, Wall Street Journal, Android Beat, gHacks Technology News, MacStories, Mashable, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, Gizmodo, ReadWrite and Carousel
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| 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 …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacRumors, Business Insider, BGR, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, Forbes, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Phones Review, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks and Fortune
Tweets: @markgurman, @arnoldkim, @reneritchie, @arnoldkim and @markgurman
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps — Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to an extreme new level today. It's starting to notify users they'll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android …
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, BGR, Inquirer, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, NEWS.com.au, Business Insider, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Re/code, Coolsmartphone, Digital Trends, memeburn, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, Reuters, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Inside Facebook, Mashable, SlashGear, AllFacebook, TechHive, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, Windows Phone Central, ReadWrite and Engadget. Tweets: @hamburger. Thanks:@joshconstine
| 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.
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ZDNet, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
| 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 …
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Valleywag. Tweets: @nymag, @ashleymayer, @mims, @skimbrel, @caro, @parmy, @moorehn, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @hilarygreenbaum, @anildash and @nytfridge
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BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday, as the technology company looks to expand its corporate reach with investments, acquisitions and partnerships.
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| 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.
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VentureBeat, DSLreports, Free Press and Engadget
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Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud Services Get A Privacy Thumbs Up From Europe's Data Protection Authorities — Microsoft is no stranger to the chilling effects of European regulation, facing fines for some of its own practices and seeing rivals like Google get off the hook more lightly.| 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.| Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google is testing new UI and features for Google Calendar — Much in the same way that Google is currently testing features out for Gmail, we are now seeing updated UI and new features for the Google Calendar Android app. — Like many other companies, Google tests a lot of their software internally …
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