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April 12, 2014, 9:35 PM

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:

Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — Stepping into a heated debate within the nation's intelligence agencies, President Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should — in most circumstances …

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Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

Private crypto keys are accessible to Heartbleed hackers, new data shows — Contrary to previous suspicions, it is possible for hackers exploiting the catastrophic vulnerability dubbed Heartbleed to extract a private encryption keys from vulnerable websites, Web services firm Cloudflare reported Saturday.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Neowin, Re/code, Engadget, CloudFlare Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, Digital Trends and Softpedia News

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IC ON THE RECORD:

NSA and Federal government claim that they were not aware of Heartbleed vulnerability before April 2014 — Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the “Heartbleed bug” flaw and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence — April 11, 2014

More: Guardian, News and Media, Softpedia News, NBC News, CloudFlare, Los Angeles Times, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Daily Dot

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Paul Mutton / Netcraft:

Only 30K of the 500K+ SSL certificates affected by the Heartbleed bug have been reissued to date

More: Softpedia News. Tweets: @latentexistence and @netcraft

Boris Jabes / Meldium:

Agents that fetch URLs are vulnerable to “reverse” Heartbleed exploits, warns Meldium dev team

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Tweets: @jcoglan and @thomasfuchs

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.

More: VentureBeat, Reuters, TurkishPress.com, International Business Times, DW.DE, MWC News and presstv.ir

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 …

More: BostInno, Bijan Sabet, BetaBoston, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Feld Thoughts

Tweets: @cdixon, @hackerchick, @dittycheria, @masseohed and @danprimack

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google's Android VP of engineering testifies for Samsung, says iPhone features weren't copied — Google exec: We never copied iPhone features for Android — Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google VP of engineering for Android, takes the stand for Samsung in its patent infringement trial against Apple.

More: Re/code, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, TechRadar.com, New York Times, AndroidHeadlines.com, App Advice, Wall Street Journal, Mercury News, AppleInsider and PC World

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple rests its case against Samsung after calling it a copycat yet again

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, Re/code, ZDNet and AppleInsider

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 …

More: PC World, Business Insider, Forbes, Gigaom, Mashable, Digital Trends, Business 2 Community, TechSpot, InvestorPlace and Consumerist

Tweets: @mrjohncrowley, @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 …

More: TechCrunch, Thomson IR, PC World, Bloomberg, Pulse 2.0, Los Angeles Times, Softpedia News and bizjournals

Hunter Walk:

Gil Penchina interviewed on plans for his leaderboard-topping $3.3M AngelList syndicate — Gil Penchina's Army: How AngelList's Largest Syndicate Plans to Lead A Rounds, Hire An Associate & Keep VCs Honest — Gil Penchina doesn't appear in TechCrunch or Valleywag often. He tweets infrequently.

Tweets: @chrisfralic and @hunterwalk

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.

More: Ars Technica and The Verge. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

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 …

More: I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge, PC World and Windows Phone Central

Re/code:

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 …

More: TechSpot, Phones Review, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, SeekingAlpha.com, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, Gigaom Research, App Advice, Softpedia News and Wall Street Journal

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