Techmeme: Goldman says Google has blocked email with leaked client data (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

July 3, 2014, 8:15 PM

Top News

Panorama:

Investigation of leaked source code reveals NSA tracks users of Tor website, calls visitors to Tails and Linux Journal sites “extremists” — NSA targets the privacy-conscious — The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany - in Berlin and Nuremberg - are under surveillance by the NSA.

More: Boing Boing, Schneier on Security, Linux Journal, The Verge, Ars Technica, RT, Gigaom, Ars Technica, The Hill, Wired, Techdirt, PandoDaily and The Register

Tweets: @ioerror, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @nsa_pr, @arrington, @botherder and @csoghoian

Richard Stiennon / securitycurrent:

Bruce Schneier and other security experts believe code leaks originate from an NSA leaker other than Snowden — Is there Another NSA Leaker? — This morning a partial analysis of the NSA's XKEYSCORE code was published in Germany. Jacob Applebaum, an evangelist for the The Onion Project (TOR), was one of the authors.

Tweets: @nikcub, @antderosa, @edfelten and @nirajc

comScore:

Android, Windows Phone market share unchanged from 3 months ago, iOS up 0.6%, BlackBerry down 0.6% — comScore Reports May 2014 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share — Smartphones Achieve 70 Percent Mobile Market Share — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, TechCrunch, WMPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Windows Phone Central, iMore and WinBeta

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Goldman says Google has blocked email with leaked client data — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) on Wednesday said Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has blocked access to an email containing confidential client data that a contractor sent to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake …

More: Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Electronista, SlashGear, Ars Technica, TIME, Mashable, VentureBeat, Daily Dot, Softpedia News, CNET and The Verge

Kellex / Droid Life:

Verizon Prepaid is Finally Getting 4G LTE, Likely on July 17 — According to sources of ours, Verizon prepaid is finally getting access to the carrier's massive 4G LTE network come July 17. As those of you in the prepaid game know, Verizon has lagged behind others in terms of prepaid data speeds …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Google, PhoneNews.com and SeekingAlpha.com

Joe Rossignol / 9to5Google:

EFF warns that Android might be broadcasting your location history, Google investigating possible changes — Last month, Apple quietly unveiled a new feature in iOS 8 that automatically scrambles an iOS device's MAC address when it is searching for Wi-Fi networks.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computerworld, The Register, The Next Web, Electronista, BGR, The Verge and Daily Dot

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Becomes A Local Party Discovery Tool With “Events For You” Redesign — Just because you weren't invited, doesn't mean Facebook can't help you crash the party. Facebook Events on the web got a slick visual overhaul today that includes a new “Events For You” tab that recommends gatherings …

Tweets: @joshconstine

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

miniLock: A free and open-source browser plugin to let anyone easily encrypt and decrypt files — The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything — Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email …

Mark Scott / New York Times:

London Transport Regulator Says Uber Can Legally Operate — LONDON - In the battle between Europe's taxi drivers and the ride-sharing service Uber, score one for Uber. — On Thursday, London's transport regulator said that Uber, the West Coast technology start-up that has faced protests …

More: Bloomberg, The Next Web, Businessweek, VentureBeat, Re/code, CNET, Engadget and PandoDaily. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Consumer privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center files complaint with the FTC over controversial Facebook study — Privacy watchdog files complaint over Facebook study — SAN FRANCISCO — A privacy watchdog group filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission …

More: New York Times, NationalJournal.com, The Hill and epic.org

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Charles River Ventures Raises $393 Million For Its 16th Fund — Charles River Ventures, the early stage venture capital firm that's jointly based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Silicon Valley, has raised $393 million for a new investment fund, according to documents filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More: VentureBeat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger Finally Gets An iPad Version — Three years after Facebook acquired Beluga and turned it into Messenger for smartphones, its dedicated chat app today got a version specially designed for iPad rather than just running as an enlarged iPhone app.

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.

Zoho:

3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

WebBrain:

WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast:

How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Big Technology Podcast:

Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Machine Gods:

OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI

The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.

Subscribe to Machine Gods.

The Upstarts Podcast:

The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.

Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.

Cheeky Pint:

Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence

Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.

Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.

Great Chat:

The case for AI optimism

A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.

Subscribe to Great Chat.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:15 PM ET, July 3, 2014.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.