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HP study: 250 security flaws found in just 10 of the most popular smart home devices — The Internet of Things Is the Hackers' New Playground — Excited about the promise of the shiny new Internet of Things? Good. Because hackers are too. Or at least they should be, according to a study by computing giant Hewlett-Packard.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Share of Twitter users who don't use the official site or app, and thus don't see ads, grows to 14% — Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads — Investors who drove up Twitter Inc. 's market value by more than $3 billion this week might want to read the fine print.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Amazon Wants Cheaper E-Books. But Should It Get to Enforce Prices? — In a short blog post meant to shed light on its contract dispute with the publisher Hachette, Amazon argued this week that its data proved that lower e-book prices were better for everyone in the market for books.
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Security researchers: Al-Qaeda changed encryption tech after Snowden leaks, prefers Android — How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 2) — Analysis Summary — Al-Qaeda (AQ) encryption product releases have continued since our May 8, 2014 post on the subject …
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LG Issues G Watch Update In Response To Complaints About Corrosion And Skin Irritation — Reports began circulating over the last couple of days about an OTA update making its way out to owners of the LG G Watch, bumping the build number from KMV78V to KMV78Y.
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In 2010 a French court convicted Mt. Gox owner Mark Karpeles for fraud in absentia, sentence was a year in jail — Why the head of Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange should be in jail — While Mt. Gox owner Mark Karpeles was growing what would become the world's largest Bitcoin exchange … | Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
43Tbps over a single fiber: World's fastest network would let you download a movie in 0.2 milliseconds — A research group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), which was the first to break the one-terabit barrier in 2009, has today managed to squeeze 43 terabits per second … | Wall Street Journal: |
New Twitter experiment provides definitions for some hashtags — Twitter Testing Easier-To-Use Hashtags — Twitter appears to be testing a feature that will better organize its chaotic world of hashtags. — The new feature, seen by The Wall Street Journal in the Twitter app for iOS …
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US Judge's ruling in Microsoft email case will further erode trust in US tech companies abroad — How one judge single-handedly killed trust in the US technology industry — Summary: Well that's certainly a phrase one US judge can nail on the casket of her career. — Some people volunteer at shelters.Thanks:@zackwhittaker
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Facebook hit with international class action privacy suit … An Austrian privacy activist has launched a wide-reaching class action suit against Facebook Ireland for breaching European data protection law. — Anyone outside of the US and Canada can join activist and law student Max Schrems' suit via … | Peter Heinrich / Amazon Developer Services: |
Amazon Appstore Expands to 41 New Countries and Territories, Including Egypt, Indonesia, Singapore, and Turkey — Now available in 41 additional international locations, the Amazon Appstore has expanded its global presence to 236 countries and territories. Publishing your Android app …
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PlayStation Now is a glimpse at the future of gaming — for a price — The technology works, but the business model doesn't — “Honey, can you turn off Netflix? I'm trying to play Twisted Metal.” — In my life, I never thought I'd utter those words.
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