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RadiumOne's All-Male Board Is Now Deciding Whether (or Not) to Dump CEO Over Domestic Violence Conviction — According to numerous sources, the board of RadiumOne is deciding whether or not to remove CEO Gurbaskh Chahal from his job, after he was convicted of two misdemeanors for domestic violence and battery in a San Francisco court.
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Tweets: @fmanjoo and @danprimack
| Barbara van Schewick / Center for Internet and Society: |
The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care. — Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with anger and confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, “[r]egulators are proposing new rules …
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Gigaom, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, Hit & Run, Re/code, PC World, InfoWorld and Free Press Blog. Tweets: @ddayen
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback — One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google's project managers. All of them. — It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision.| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Rumor: ‘Ok Google Everywhere,’ Modular Actions, New Navigation Buttons Coming To Android — We've recently seen plenty of rumors related to Google's future plans for its Search app, from automatically remembering where you parked to reminding you of things when you're with another person …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Security researcher finds most hospital equipment hackable in study of about 100 facilities — Why It's Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment — When Scott Erven was given free reign to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Comixology removes in-app purchases to avoid paying fees to Apple — It's about to get a bit more difficult to buy comic books from a mobile device. Comixology is replacing its iOS app today with a new version that removes the ability to purchase comics. The new app is solely a comic book reader …
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comiXology Unbound, MacRumors, The Next Web and Bleeding Cool Comic Book …
Tweets: @reneritchie and @marcoarment
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Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence — Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data, declaring the demands overly broad and at odds with basic constitutional rights.
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Tweets: @trevortimm, @trevortimm, @csoghoian, @abrams and @counternotions
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Twitter tests ‘Significant engagement’ notifications in its iOS app — Twitter is testing a new feature called “Significant engagement” in its iOS app. The company describes these achievements as “Important or higher than usual engagement with your account or Tweets.”Thanks:@epro
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Inside DarkMarket, a prototype online black market that resists police seizure via decentralization — Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize — The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site's lucrative drug trade …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Former Apple engineer recalls early iPhone development, which resembled a startup — An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story — When Francisco Tolmasky was just 20 years old and started working for Apple, he took on a challenging task: to create a rich mobile web browser …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo ‘Complying’ With Copyright Law As The Company ‘Circumventing’ Copyright Law? — We mentioned this briefly in our writeup of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Aereo case, but I wanted to focus in on one particularly annoying issue that has come …
Tweets: @rsingel and @videograndpa
| Ron Nixon / New York Times: |
US built Twitter-like services for Cuba, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens more countries — U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics — WASHINGTON — The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program — Verizon in January filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's program that collects billions of Americans' call-detail records, but a surveillance court rejected it …
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