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April 12, 2014, 2:05 PM

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CloudFlare:
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).
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
Boris Jabes / Meldium:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon plans to announce a smartphone by the end of June, to ship by the end of September  —  Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone  —  Retailer Has Plans to Announce Phone in June, Begin Shipping By End of September  —  Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half …
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 …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sprint to offer carrier billing and free trials for Spotify service in planned partnership  —  Sprint and Spotify Plan to Partner Up  —  Sprint and Spotify are working to push the streaming music service out to the wireless carrier's customers.  —  A planned tie-up between the two companies …
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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