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Russian gang holds 1.2B username/password combos, stolen from 420K vulnerable websites scanned via botnet, say security researchers — Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials — A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection …
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Firm That Exposed Breach Of ‘Billion Passwords’ Quickly Offered $120 Service To Find Out If You're Affected — The New York Times dropped the freakiest security story since Heartbleed Tuesday, warning people that a “Russian gang has amassed over a billion passwords.”| Bloomberg: |
China bans iPads and MacBooks from government use over security fears — China Said to Exclude Apple From Procurement List — China's government excluded Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads and MacBook laptops from the list of products that can be bought with public money because of security concerns …
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Samsung Agree to End Patent Suits Outside U.S. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) are starting to wind down their global patent battle. — The companies said in a joint statement today that they have agreed to drop all suits against each other in countries outside …
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| John Paczkowski / Re/code: |
Apple to hold iPhone event on Sept. 9 — Code/red: Apple to Hold iPhone Event on Sept. 9 — New iPhones to Suck All the Air Out of the Tech News Cycle on Sept. 9 Onstage at our inaugural Code conference earlier this summer, Apple SVP Eddy Cue described the company's fall product pipeline …
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Tweets: @macrumors and @fmanjoo
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint taps Brightstar CEO Claure as new CEO — Claure replaces Dan Hesse, who has served as CEO since December 2007. — Sprint on Wednesday named Marcelo Claure its new president and CEO, starting a new chapter for the embattled carrier. — Claure, who is the 43-year-old founder and CEO …
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Tweets: @emilychangtv, @dsilverman, @brkend and @shaliniwsj
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft's Q2 loss on Surface estimated at $363M, total since launch two years back $1.7B — Surface damage mounts at Microsoft as red ink reaches $1.7B — The tablet business has lost money each quarter, and each fiscal year — Microsoft continued to lose money on its Surface tablets throughout …
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| Evgeny Morozov / New York Times: |
Internet.org's project to connect the developing world is a gateway drug to Facebook — Facebook's Gateway Drug — SILICON VALLEY was once content to dominate the tech world. But recently, its leading companies have ventured deep into areas well outside its traditional bailiwick …
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Tweets: @markhurst, @evgenymorozov and @fredericjacobs
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia reveals 56 requests for user data in first transparency report; 50 links removed under Right to be Forgotten — Wikimedia Attacks Europe's Right To Be Forgotten Ruling As Threat To Its Mission — The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization behind Wikipedia … | Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Foursquare 8.0 review: the ultimate food-finder — The check-in is dead, but Foursquare is alive — It's almost 11. If I don't make a move soon, I'm going to hit the brunch rush and have to wait two hours for a decent breakfast. The problem is, I don't know what I want. I'm not in the mood for anything.
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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
With Operation Torpedo, FBI installs “drive-by” spyware on Tor web servers to identify visitors — Visit the Wrong Website, and the FBI Could End Up in Your Computer — Security experts call it a “drive-by download”: a hacker infiltrates a high-traffic website and then subverts …
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Timex Ironman One GPS+ smartwatch to debut this fall for $399 with AT&T cellular connectivity and a Qualcomm mobile OS — Timex enters smartwatch category. No phone needed. — NEW YORK — All the early smartwatches generating buzz (if not a lot of sales) come not from traditional watch brands …
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TechHive, Digital Trends, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch and Reuters. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Inside DARPA's Transformative Apps program, the military's own app ecosystem making smartphones battle-ready — Inside the Military's Secretive Smartphone Program — When I recently set out for the Pentagon's R&D department, I instead found myself in front of a downtrodden shopping mall in Arlington, Virginia.
Tweets: @darpa
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's HTML5 Web Designer Gets Animation Tools, Deeper AdWords And DoubleClick Integrations — Last September, Google launched Web Designer, a free tool for Mac, Windows and Linux that makes it easy for anybody to build interactive HTML5 sites and ads. Since its launch … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Dev Ittycheria To Be New CEO Of Database Unicorn MongoDB As Schireson Steps Down — Billion-dollar database company MongoDB has announced a new CEO, outsider Dev Ittycheria, after just one year with Max Schireson at the helm. A former software CEO turned investor, Ittycheria will become president … | Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Uber announces UberPool, a ride-sharing, cost-splitting experiment to begin Aug. 15 in SF — UberPool Lets You Split Uber Fares With Other Passengers Along The Same Route — In the ongoing war between Uber, Lyft, and all of the other me-too ride-sharing services, competitors are looking …
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Uber Blog, Business Insider, Gigaom, WebProNews, SlashGear, Engadget, Digital Trends, Mashable, The Verge, Electronista, CNET, iMore, The Next Web and GeekWire. Tweets: @swaaanson. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| BBC: |
Sony gives up on selling e-readers — Sony has given up selling its line of Reader devices for e-books after failing to find a big enough market. — “We do not have plans to develop a successor Reader model at this time,” the Japanese firm told the BBC. — The PRS-T3 was the last version …
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The Verge, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Digital Reader
| CNBC: |
Apple touts record App Store revenue, record number of customers making transactions in July — Apple says July was record-setting month for app store revenue — Apple's app store saw record-setting revenue numbers in July, the company told CNBC. The Cupertino-based company …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Felicis Raises New $96M Fund, Pledges To Always Vote Shares With Founders — Five to ten years ago, the notion of a super-angel, or an angel backed with a notable but still small-sized fund, was relatively new concept. — There were players like Aydin Senkut, Jeff Clavier and Dave McClure.| Gilad Lotan / Global Voices: |
Analysis: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter serve as siloed propaganda engines for Gaza news — Israel, Gaza, War & Data - The Art of Personalizing Propaganda — If you're rooting for Israel, you might have seen videos of rocket launches by Hamas adjacent to Shifa Hospital.
Tweets: @en_moutarde, @kia_mak, @ajc110, @imillenari, @abrahamjoseph and @corinnew
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cisco: new exploit kits, Java vulnerabilities, PoS attacks are most serious threats in 2014 — Exploit kit variety, point-of-sale attacks reign in 2014: Cisco — Summary: Cisco's security team says that exploit variety is gaining steam, and both the Internet of Things and point … Sponsor Posts
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