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January 27, 2015, 4:15 PM

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Jinen Kamdar / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter starts rolling out group Direct Messaging, 30-second video capture and sharing — Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera — A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon, and today we're excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience.

Dennis Kish / Google Fiber Blog:

Google confirms Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham — Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham — It's been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm.

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Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Snapchat launches ad-supported Discover feature to show off videos and stories — Snapchat has launched “Discover,” a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by outside publishers, and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 software update w/ stability improvements, reduces space required to update — Apple released the iOS 8.1.3 software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users today. The update is available over-the-air through the Software Update section of the Settings app.

More: Official Apple Support, Gigaom, GeekWire, Ars Technica, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Verge, BGR, Business Insider, AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile and Electronista. Tweets: @dcseifert

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple Pay coming to 200,000 vending machines, kiosks, paid parking & other self-serve locations — While individual retailers have been announcing support for Apple Pay as more NFC terminals enable the service, it's still hit and miss on vending machines and other self-serve, unattended hardware.

More: Gigaom, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, investor.usatech.com, Business Wire, TIME, VentureBeat, iMore, SlashGear, TUAW, Ubergizmo, WebProNews and O'Grady's PowerPage

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with fixes for security and WiFi issues, adds support for iCloud Drive in Time Machine — Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 With Security Fixes, iCloud Drive Browsing Options in Time Machine — Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 …

More: 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Engadget, Macworld, GeekWire, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW and Digital Trends

Costin Raiu / Securelist:

Researchers say Qwerty keylogger used by Five Eyes governments and Regin malware are developed by the same entity, or by entities working closely together — Comparing the Regin module 50251 and the “Qwerty” keylogger — On January 17 2015, Spiegel.de published an extensive article based on documents obtained from Edward Snowden.

More: Spiegel Online, Threatpost, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, Globe and Mail, Geek.com, Network World, Telegraph and ITworld.com

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Canalys: Apple shipped the most smartphones in China during Q4 2014 — For the first time, Apple has beaten local smartphones vendors in China. During Q4 2014, the company's iPhone line nabbed first place by units shipped in the Chinese smartphone market.

More: Canalys Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, CNET, BGR, Macworld, iMore, 9to5Mac and TechCrunch

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Highly critical “Ghost” allowing code execution affects most Linux systems — New bug haunting Linux could spark “a lot of collateral damage on the Internet.” — An extremely critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distributions gives attackers the ability to execute malicious code …

More: Openwall, ma.ttias.be, ZDNet, The Laws of Vulnerabilities, WP Engine, 5π - fish's blog, Threatpost and Slashdot

Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press:

Cut off from Internet, Cuban youth link more than 9K computers to create private network — Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban — HAVANA (AP) — Cut off from the Internet, young Cubans have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network …

More: HP Next, IEEE Spectrum, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Slashdot and Geek News Central. Tweets: @bskorup

Jacob Rossi / Smashing Magazine:

How Microsoft created EdgeHTML, the rendering engine powering the Spartan browser — Inside Microsoft's New Rendering Engine For The “Project Spartan” — Last week, Microsoft made its biggest announcement for the web since it first introduced Internet Explorer in 1995: a new browser, codenamed “Project Spartan31.”

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @stevesi

Richard Leider / YouTube Engineering …:

YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video instead of Flash — YouTube now defaults to HTML5 — Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube's early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery.

More: The Next Web, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Android Central

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo to Spin Off Rest of Alibaba Stake as Expected — Yahoo said it would spin off the rest of its stake in China's Alibaba Group today. It said the transaction will result in two independent public companies:

More: Tech Trader Daily, Re/code and Bloomberg

Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

EFF's Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance — We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. — The entity that's conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world's communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law.

More: SiliconBeat, Inquirer and Slashdot

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

F.T.C. Calls for Strong Data and Privacy Protection With Connected Devices — As consumers increasingly adopt devices that can collect information and transmit it to the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday called on technology companies that sell those products …

More: Federal Trade Commission, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, eWeek, PC World, Re/code, The Verge, Android Authority, Ars Technica and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @natashanyt

Bloomberg:

France seeks to sanction web companies as hate-speech accomplices if they host extremist messages — France Seeks to Sanction Web Companies for Posts Pushing Terror — The French government is stepping up the pressure on Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Facebook Inc. (FB) to help in the struggle against terrorist groups.

More: The Verge, Techdirt, VentureBeat and SiliconBeat

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