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Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle Superfish adware that breaks HTTPS connections, affects Chrome and Internet Explorer — Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections — Superfish may make it trivial for attackers to spoof any HTTPS website.
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| Taylor Kourim / Gmail Blog: |
Google Inbox comes to iPad and Android tablets, supports Firefox and Safari as well as Chrome — Inbox by Gmail: now in more places — It's always hard to know when it's time to share a new product, because there's always just a _few_ more things you want to do.
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| Eric Blattberg / Digiday: |
YouTube prohibits sponsored overlays to keep creators from cutting Google out of ad revenues — YouTube makes a move against brand-sponsored videos — YouTube is putting down the clamps on video creators who work directly with brands, nudging them instead to rely on Google's sales team for deals.| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Samsung TVs aren't the only gadgets spying on you, list includes LG TV, Xbox Kinect, Amazon Echo, GM's Onstar and more — It's not just Samsung TVs — lots of other gadgets are spying on you — Earlier this month, Samsung was the target of a privacy dust-up due to a disturbing sentence … | Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pandora testing a message service that lets artists send audio messages to fans — Pandora to Let Music Artists Like Lenny Kravitz Send Audio Messages to Fans (Video) — Even Pandora wants in on the messaging boom. — The music streaming service is launching a pilot test this week … | Johnathan Nightingale / meandering wildly: |
Mozilla's VP in charge of Firefox Johnathan Nightingale to step down at the end of March — Home for a Rest — Earlier today, I sent this note to the global mozilla employees list. It was not an easy send button to push. — One of the many, many things Mozilla has taught me over the years is not to bury the lede, so here goes:
| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago — News broke earlier this week about the NSA's “most sophisticated” malware yet: An undetectable backdoor that can filter information to and from a hard drive, using the underlying framework of the drive itself.Thanks:@mattbraga
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore pleads guilty to hacking, ID theft — Moore, once deemed the “most hated man on the Internet,” ran IsAnyoneUp.com. — On Wednesday, Hunter Moore, 28, the notorious founder and operator of revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com pleaded guilty [PDF] …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit — Apple has poached five key engineers from A123 Systems to work in a new battery division at the Cupertino technology company, with some hires possibly going as far back as June, a new report claims.
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| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica: |
UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility — A world-class country should have world-class Internet access. — A new report, published by the upper house of UK parliament—the House of Lords—has called for Internet access to be reclassified as a public utility.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Babar, malware that monitors web activity and logs keystrokes, is tied to French spy agency — Meet Babar, a New Malware Almost Certainly Created by France — The NSA, GCHQ, and their allies in the Five Eyes are not the only government agencies using malware for surveillance.
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Mobile Game Revenues to Grow 16.5% in 2015, Surpassing $3 Billion — Gaming leads growth of $10 billion mobile content market as ebook and music downloads stagnate — US mobile game revenues—including both downloads and in-app purchases—will grow 16.5% this year to reach $3.04 billion, according to new figures from eMarketer.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist — It's finally official: The White House has named DJ Patil its first ever Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy. — Yes, that's a mouthful. Even as an acronym, Patil's new title is ten letters long: CDCaDCTODT.
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| Serenity Caldwell / iMore: |
Astropad is a $50 sketching app that mirrors a Mac display on an iPad at a high frame rate with functionality similar to a Wacom tablet — Astropad brings the Cintiq experience to your iPad — The iPad's made great progress in the sketching world, but it's still been hampered …
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| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
YouTube sees 50% annual growth in views for the last three years, despite Facebook push in video — YouTube Says Growth Is Still Strong Despite Push From Facebook — YouTube's head of content says the video giant has seen 50% annual growth in views for the last three years and that there's plenty … | Thomas Zambito / New Jersey Online: |
Accused Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman pleads not guilty in US on charges related to hacking case that siphoned 160M+ credit card numbers — Russian national pleads not guilty in international hacking scheme — Multimillion-dollar worldwide hacking scheme revealed| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Ray Super Remote is a $199 touchscreen remote that can recommend content, easily switch inputs — Ray Wants to Change Your TV Experience, With a Touchscreen Remote Control (Video) — As more set-top boxes, game consoles and sticks that stream Web video crowd the main television set in the home …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Entertainment firm Whalerock creates online and app-based channels for celebrities to reach fans directly with paid and free programming — Coming Soon: Celebrity Web Networks From the Media Company Whalerock — SANTA MONICA, Calif. — An under-the-radar media company here called Whalerock … | Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
DeSoto, SF's oldest taxi firm, ditches 82-year old name for Flywheel, as part of co-marketing agreement with e-hailing app company — DeSoto, S.F.'s oldest taxi firm, rebrands itself as Flywheel — San Francisco's oldest taxi company is changing the name it has held since the 1930s … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Sony will spin off its audio and video business as it searches for profitablity — The ‘One Sony’ rallying cry sounds increasingly hollow — When Kazuo Hirai took over as CEO of Sony back in 2012, he laid out a vision for the company that would reorganize its sprawling business into “One Sony.”
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