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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 …
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Iranian hackers in February remotely accessed and wiped thousands of servers to punish Sands Casino CEO for incendiary comments — Iranian Hackers Hit Sheldon Adelson's Sands Casino in Las Vegas — Most gamblers were still asleep, and the gondoliers had yet to pole their way down the ersatz canal … | 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.
Tweets: @shashj, @the_intercept and @rj_gallagher
| 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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IsoHunt Blog, Tech Times, TorrentFreak, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, GamePolitics blogs and SlashGear
| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
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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PC Magazine, Mashable, TechCrunch, TIME, The Register, Tech Times, Gizmodo, ZDNet, The Next Web, Neowin, Seeking Alpha, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, CIO.com, WinBeta, Electronista, GeekWire, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Beyond Search and Windows Phone Central. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Tinder Competitor Hinge Scores $12M To Bring Its Friends-Of-Friends Dating App Abroad — If you want to hook up or judge people for fun, there's Tinder. But if you want to meet someone you could start a relationship with, Hinge is the app for you. Now in 28 cities across the States …
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Forbes, Medium, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Wired, TIME and The Register
| 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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PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Maps Mania, The Register, 9to5Google, The Next Web and Android Central
| 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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Tech Times, Electronista, Gizmodo and Engadget
| 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 … | 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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Engadget, SuperSite for Windows, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, App Advice, MacRumors, MacNN, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and iMore
Tweets: @dangillmor and @jeffelder
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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