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Facebook no longer showing results from Bing when searching on its site — Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) has stopped including results from Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Bing search engine on its social networking site.
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
AlwayOn's Tony Perkins to open a Menlo Park social club for “founders, CEOs, investors, and artists” called The Cuckoo's Nest in early 2015 — Will Silicon Valley go cuckoo for this new social club? — Silicon Valley's elite have a number of upscale places where they can mingle … | Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
How GCHQ used malware to penetrate Belgium's largest telecom and remain undetected for 2 years — The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium's Largest Telco — When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem.
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| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors — A former iTunes engineer testified in a federal antitrust case against Apple Friday that he worked on a project “intended to block 100% of non-iTunes clients” and “keep out third-party players” that competed with Apple's iPod.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Iran hackers may target U.S. energy, defense firms, FBI warns — (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned U.S. businesses to be on the alert for a sophisticated Iranian hacking operation whose targets include defense contractors, energy firms and educational institutions …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IsoHunt unofficially resurrects The Pirate Bay — Torrent site isoHunt appears to have unofficially resurrected The Pirate Bay at oldpiratebay.org. At first glance, The Old Pirate Bay seems to be just a commemorative site for The Pirate Bay, which went down this week after police raided its data center in Sweden.
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| Ken Hoetmer / Google Geo Developers Blog: |
Google to turn off Google Earth API on December 12, 2015 — Announcing deprecation of the Google Earth API — Over six years ago we introduced the Google Earth API, enabling developers to build rich 3D mapping applications in the browser, using JavaScript.
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
GCHQ releases Cryptoy, a free Android tablet app that teaches children “basic encryption techniques” — Which surveillance agency just released an encryption app for kids? Answer: GCHQ — Cryptoy Android app focuses on historic cryptography tools, despite chief's recent criticism … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Is Testing An Autoplay Feature That Streams Suggested Videos Automatically — YouTube, always on the lookout for ways to keep people watching more videos and staying on its site longer, is testing out a new feature that could prove to be a honeypot (or major annoyance!) for casual visitors … | Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
Verizon says Voice Cypher, its new encrypted voice call app, will include backdoors for law enforcement — Verizon's New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA — Verizon is the latest big company to enter the post-Snowden market for secure communication, and it's doing … | Jonathan Feist / Android Authority: |
Google Fit update includes 100 new activities that can be entered manually, offline step tracking for Android Wear — Google Fit supports 100 new activities with latest update — With Android 5.0.1 Lollipop and a mass of app updates rolling out this week, Google is also pushing out a new version of Google Fit.| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
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