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Two people independently obtained SSL private keys with Heartbleed exploits, solving CloudFlare's challenge — The Heartbleed Challenge — So far, two people have independently solved the Heartbleed Challenge. The first was submitted at 4:22:01PST by Fedor Indutny (@indutny).
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Tweets: @jcoglan and @thomasfuchs
| The Boston Globe: |
Massachusetts governor unveils sweeping legislation to eliminate noncompetes for tech workers — Patrick looks to eliminate tech noncompete agreements — Governor Deval Patrick on Thursday will propose sweeping legislation to make it easier for workers in technology, life sciences …
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BostInno, Bijan Sabet, BetaBoston, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Feld Thoughts
Tweets: @cdixon, @hackerchick, @masseohed, @dittycheria and @danprimack
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet — Twitter is having no trouble signing up users. But some new research provides an update on the size of an ongoing problem: getting people to tweet. — A report from Twopcharts, a website that monitors Twitter account activity …
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Tweets: @mrjohncrowley, @wsjeurope, @wsj and @bgurley
| San Francisco Chronicle: |
Salesforce leasing half of planned 61-story Transbay Tower, tallest in SF after 2017 opening — Salesforce makes landmark deal to lease half of Transbay Tower — Salesforce.com will lease half of the planned Transbay Tower in a landmark real estate deal that puts San Francisco's largest …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft experiments with making Windows Live Tiles interactive — Summary: Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to allow Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox users able to interact directly with Live Tiles. — Microsoft researchers in Asia are experimenting with the usefulness …
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Amazon is wooing app developers for upcoming smartphone with money, Amazon Web Services, more — Amazon's Hard Sell: Gaining Developers for Its Coming Smartphones — As Amazon prepares for the launch of its first smartphones, the company faces a daunting task: Ensuring that the devices … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| Cam Simpson / Businessweek: |
Samsung facing more scrutiny in South Korea over its cancer-stricken semiconductor workers — Samsung's War at Home — Just inside his single-story home, built of concrete blocks and coated in turquoise paint, Hwang Sang-ki, a 58-year-old Korean taxi driver, sits on a floor mat.| Fulya Ozerkan / Agence France-Presse: |
Turkey PM threatens to ‘go after’ Twitter for tax evasion — Ankara (AFP) - Turkey's prime minister said Saturday he will “go after” Twitter, accusing the site of tax-evasion, after it was used to spread damaging leaks implicating his inner circle in corruption claims.
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Staples begins offering in-store 3D printing services in US, starting in LA and NY — Staples Wants to Bring 3D Printing to the Masses — Staples has been selling 3D printers for about a year. Now it wants to begin selling access to them. — The office supply retailer began offering … | Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
PayPal releases mobile payment app for the Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint reader — With the Samsung Galaxy S5 now available, PayPal is making good on its promise to use the handset's fingerprint reader. The company released mobile apps specifically for the Galaxy S5 and Samsung's latest wearables on Friday.
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PayPal Forward, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, SlashGear and SamMobile
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft OS chief Myerson talks turkey on transparency, cadence and cross platform — Summary: Microsoft Executive Vice President of operating systems Terry Myerson talks about Windows' value proposition for the a more cross-platform-committed Microsoft. — Microsoft Executive Vice President …
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News and Computerworld
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DreamWorks submitted a bid to Vevo's owners this week to buy part of the company — DreamWorks Animation Wants a Piece of Vevo, the Music Video Giant — DreamWorks Animation, which has been looking to expand its business beyond animated movies, is looking at Vevo, the online music video service.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
IDrive:
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