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April 10, 2014, 11:20 AM

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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, BBC, TUAW, The Daily Caller, ExtremeTech, AVC, iPhone Hacks, PayPal Forward and Office of Inadequate Security

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: The Verge, Guardian, InfoWorld, Softpedia News and SlashGear. 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: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BBC, Computerworld, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Business Insider, SecurityWeek, BloggingPro, Gotta Be Mobile, New York Times, Engadget, Security Watch, The Official Rackspace Blog, Lifehacker, Daily Dot and Business Insider. Tweets: @mathewi

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

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

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

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA

More: Wired and Nextgov. Tweets: @jsvine, @felixsalmon and @hunterschwarz

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, Forbes, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Reuters, The Verge, Pulse 2.0, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

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.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

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

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

Tweets: @jyarow and @kbaxter

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: Re/code, BGR, The Next Web, Fox News, Softpedia News, CNET and CrackBerry.com

Reuters:

BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments

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

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, TechSpot, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Android Community, AndroidHeadlines.com, Engadget, Droid Life, Phandroid and SlashGear

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, IBM, TechCrunch, NASDAQ.com, MediaPost and Forrester Blogs

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, TechPresident and Valleywag

Tweets: @nymag, @ashleymayer, @mims, @skimbrel, @caro, @parmy, @moorehn, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @hilarygreenbaum, @anildash and @nytfridge

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: Reuters, TechCrunch, Business Wire and StreetInsider.com

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 …

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

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, DSLreports, Free Press and Engadget

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: SocialTimes

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Mailbox's Auto-swipe feature intelligently predicts which messages to archive and snooze — Inbox hero: inside Mailbox's master plan to make email suck less — Mailbox introduced the world to snoozing messages for later. Now it's introducing a way to predict what you'll archive next

More: Computerworld, A List Apart, Macworld, It's a Gadget, Ubergizmo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, MacStories, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac and The Mac Observer

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Dropbox brings the popular Mailbox email app to Android and desktop

More: BetaNews, Android Central, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Pocketnow

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