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April 11, 2014, 1:30 PM

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Facebook:
Facebook cleans up News Feed spam by cracking down on Like-baiting, repeated content, and spammy links  —  News Feed FYI: Cleaning Up News Feed Spam  —  The goal of News Feed is to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time so they don't miss the stories that are important and relevant to them.
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Facebook says no to like-bait and viral content — but what if that's what users really want?  —  Facebook has been trying for some time now to clean up or improve the News Feed by removing things it defines as “low quality,” and it announced another effort along those lines on Thursday …
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Nick Sullivan / CloudFlare Blog:
Cloudflare's extensive testing with Heartbleed unsuccessful in retrieving private SSL key data  —  Answering the Critical Question: Can You Get Private SSL Keys Using Heartbleed?  —  The widely-used open source library OpenSSL revealed on Monday it had a major bug, now known as “heartbleed”.
Leo Kelion / BBC:
US government warns of Heartbleed bug danger  —  The US government suggests users should change the passwords of patched online services  —  The US government has warned that it believes hackers are trying to make use of the Heartbleed bug.  —  The Department of Homeland Security advised …
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
Microsoft and Sony invest in Intellectual Ventures' latest acquisition fund, Apple and Intel decline  —  Exclusive: Microsoft, Apple diverge on bankrolling big patent buyer  —  (Reuters) - Patent buyer Intellectual Ventures has persuaded Microsoft and Sony to invest in its latest acquisition fund …
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Exclusive: Apple vs. Samsung docs reveal Galaxy Tab was a flop and Samsung knew it  —  Top secret sales data revealed during the Apple vs. Samsung trial this week shows that Samsung knew that the Galaxy Tab sales figures (and overall Android tablet sales) it and various market research groups …
Michael Ducker / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter.com brings interactive real-time notifications for replies, retweets, favorites, and DMs  —  Stay connected with notifications on twitter.com  —  When it comes to your interactions on Twitter, it should be easy for you to stay connected to what's relevant.
Samsung Tomorrow:
Samsung Brings Galaxy S5 and New Gear Devices to Global Market  —  Summary:  —  ·The new Galaxy S5 and the Samsung Gear devices - Samsung Gear 2, Samsung Gear 2 Neo, and Samsung Gear Fit - are ready to hit the market in 125 countries in Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America, and most of Asia.
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Amazon Web Services launches R3 instances  —  Summary: It's been a busy time for the cloud giant, which is finding itself fighting off competitors increasingly these days.  —  Amazon Web Services announced the availability of R3 instances, the next generation of the tech giant's cornerstone …
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Chrome beta for Android makes it easy to send web video to Chromecast  —  You no longer have to engage in some hidden setting gymnastics just to send web videos from Chrome for Android to your Chromecast.  Google has rolled out a Chrome 35 beta that lets you deliver “some” clips from the browser to a Chromecast-equipped TV.
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Reddit Starts Listing Trending Subreddits To Get More Users Into Its Smaller Communities  —  Subreddits are, perhaps, reddit's biggest strength.  Introduced in 2008, they're a huge part of the reason why the site rose to popularity, and why that popularity has yet to taper off.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
YouTube Hurts Music Album Sales, Research Finds  —  In recent years many academics have researched the link between Internet piracy and the revenues of the major music labels, with varying results.  Some have concluded that there is no adverse impact of piracy on sales, others argue that there's a moderate negative relation.
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
RIAA sues Megaupload over copyright infringement  —  Kim Dotcom living large in happier times.  —  Photograph by Handout  —  Just three days after the Motion Picture Association of America brought a civil lawsuit against Megaupload, the Recording Industry Association of America has jumped in with its own case.
Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn now shows you jobs open at your own company  —  Your next dream job could be at your current company.  —  It sounds counterintuitive, but LinkedIn aims to make employees more aware of new opportunities within their companies.  It's rolling out a feature it calls Internal Job Recommendations …
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