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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.
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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”.
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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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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Appeals court reverses hacker/troll “weev” conviction and sentence — A federal appeals court Friday reversed and vacated the conviction and sentence of hacker and Internet troll Andrew “weev” Auernheimer. — The case against Auernheimer, who has often been in solitary confinement …
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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Alibaba to acquire AutoNavi in $1.5 billion deal — Summary: The Chinese e-commerce powerhouse already had a 28 percent stake in the mobile-map developer, and has been seeking a full acquisition in order to fold the technology into its platform. — The battle for e-commerce supremacy …
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| 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.
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Google Chrome Releases, Fortune, Gigaom, SlashGear, Liliputing, Phandroid and Android Central
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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.
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| 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.
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Business Insider and hypebot
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Facebook report shows where and how often it blocked illegal content — Facebook's plan isn't a secret: Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world, be it through the website proper or a buzzy, expensive mobile messaging app. Breaking down communication barriers also means some of the company's millions … | 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.
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Techdirt, TorrentFreak, Guardian, Softpedia News, Music Ally and Inquirer. See also Mediagazer
| 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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Talent Blog, Wall Street Journal, Business 2 Community, Forbes, ZDNet and WebProNews
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Microsoft OS chief Myerson on the future of ‘One Windows’ — Summary: The head of Microsoft's unified operating system group, Terry Myerson, shares more details on Microsoft's one Windows vision in a Q&A with ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley. — Microsoft's Executive Vice President of operating systems, Terry Myerson, has a lot on his plate.
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