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How Ladar Levison and a convicted hacker aim to encrypt emails, including to and from fields, with Dark Mail — A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying — The internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying.
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| Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog: |
Sequoia Capital will likely earn more from investing in YC companies than YC — The Big Winner from Y Combinator's Success? Sequoia Capital — Yesterday, Y Combinator's president, Sam Altman, that the seed investment firm had funded 716 companies that were currently valued collectively at around $30 billion.| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Product Hunt Founder Explains Why The Hell He Joined Y Combinator — Industry obsessives talk about Product Hunt—a leaderboard that lets members vote on new apps, devices, and other assorted technologies—with a sense of gratefulness. Venture capitalists use its hand-picked daily list to find a diamond in the deluge.
Tweets: @nitashatiku and @hunterwalk
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Study: 31% of ebooks sold on Amazon are self-published; DRM harms sales at all price levels — July 2014 Author Earnings Report — It has been nearly half a year since we first pulled data for nearly every ranked ebook on Amazon.com's thousands of category bestseller lists.
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How a small team inside Google built Stories, a tool that organizes photos into narratives — How to Teach Google What a Story Is — Google wanted to solve a problem we can all understand. People take so, so many photographs and yet they actually do very little with them.| Kate Cox / Consumerist: |
From AT&T To Verizon: What The Web's Biggest Players Told The FCC About Net Neutrality — The FCC originally planned to stop taking comments about their net neutrality proposal on Tuesday. But after demand overwhelmed and crashed their antique IT system, they extended the deadline to 11:59 p.m. (EDT) tonight.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Mobile carriers have kept profits high, even after moving away from charging for voice minutes — Mobile Carriers Charging Differently, but Still Finding Plenty of Ways to Make Money — A few years ago, cellular companies charged for each call their customers made and gave most of them unlimited data.| Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
Buzzfeed now receives more traffic from Pinterest than from Twitter — Nailed It: Buzzfeed Cracks The Pinterest Code — Buzzfeed is one of of the fastest growing media companies ever, with a monthly audience of 150 million and counting, thanks chiefly to its unmatched understanding of what people will read or share on Facebook.| Andy Baio / Medium: |
How to fake flawless predictions for any sports event or election using social media — How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet — Spark conspiracies, incite riots, and predict the future with a confidence scam for the Twitter era — On Saturday, a Twitter account appeared … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New search engine Indexus indexes records from data breaches, mostly from sites young hackers frequent — Even Script Kids Have a Right to Be Forgotten — Indexeus, a new search engine that indexes user account information acquired from more than 100 recent data breaches, has caught many in the hacker underground off-guard.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Edward Snowden Plans to Work on Privacy Tech — NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he plans to work on technology to preserve personal data privacy and called on programmers to join his efforts. — Speaking via a Google Hangout at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in New York …
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Motherboard, Reuters, TechCrunch, BetaNews, ACLU, Washington Post, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Guardian. Tweets: @astepanovich
| WhyCry / VideoCardz.com: |
Report: Nvidia Shield Tablet ships July 29 in the US; $299 for 16GB Wi-Fi-only, $399 for 32GB with LTE, $59 for separate controller — NVIDIA extends SHIELD family with SHIELD tablet and wireless controller — Let's talk about SHIELD. — I'm a huge fan of SHIELD, it's such an amazing tv show.
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