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February 19, 2015, 4:10 PM

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Some Lenovo notebooks shipped 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.

More: Errata Security, Marc's Security Ramblings, The Verge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Errata Security, The Verge, ZDNet, Guardian, PC Magazine, ITworld.com, The Register, The Daily Dot, PC World, ZDNet, GeekWire, SuperSite for Windows, Hackaday, Forbes, The Register, Telegraph, SiliconBeat, PandoDaily, TIME, Electronista, Engadget, Lifehacker, Business Insider, bit-tech.net, Windows Central, Security Affairs, The Daily Dot, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, The Independent, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TechWorm, SiliconANGLE, Geek.com, blog.chron.com, SecurityWeek, Web Browser, gHacks Technology News, The Tech Report, Gizmodo, DSLreports, Help Net Security, Inquirer, SlashGear, Windows Central, Neowin, TechSpot and TechCrunch

Tweets: @erratarob, @mattcutts, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @sarahjeong, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @supersat and @mattcutts

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Lenovo disabled Superfish in January, but the company says it has not found “evidence to substantiate security concerns” — Lenovo honestly thought you'd enjoy that Superfish HTTPS spyware — It wasn't about the money! — Imagine that you are a major global seller …

More: Lenovo Newsroom, The Next Web, Techdirt, BGR, Gigaom, Re/code, Digital Trends, A Few Thoughts … and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @sriramk, @dan_rowinski, @swiftonsecurity, @caseynewton, @jbrodkin, @sarahjeong and @benedictevans

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius says company is working on a tool to remove Superfish from PCs, claims they disabled tool because it “wasn't useful”

More: ExtremeTech, AppleInsider and Engadget. Tweets: @caseynewton. Thanks:@nateog

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car — In the last few weeks we've heard about a poaching war between Apple and Tesla, a couple hires by Apple from the auto industry, and a whole lot of speculation followed by reports that Apple has a team of hundreds working on an electric vehicle.

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, PC World, iMore, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, Vox, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and iLounge

Tweets: @markgurman and @tim

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit

More: Reuters, Law360, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, Associated Press, Wired, Ars Technica, US News, Gigaom, Fortune, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, BGR, The Next Web, USA Today, PandoDaily, Engadget, Yahoo Tech, MacRumors, iMore and MacDailyNews

The Intercept:

How US and UK spies hacked into world's largest maker of SIM cards and stole encryption keys — How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle — AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world …

More: The Verge, PC World, Gigaom, Gizmodo, The Next Web and SlashGear

Tweets: @e3i5, @ow, @the_intercept, @koenrh and @ggreenwald

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.

Office Blogs:

Microsoft OneNote gets OCR support across all platforms and handwriting recognition on iPad — Handwriting in OneNote for iPad, and OCR Everywhere — People are more overwhelmed than ever by how much they need to remember on a daily basis. In fact, according to a 2013 survey commissioned …

More: 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Verge, PC World, Cult of Mac, Geeky Gadgets, Neowin, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, FierceMobileIT News, Gigaom, SuperSite for Windows, The Next Web and The Fire Hose

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Now 25 years old, what's next for Photoshop? An interview with Adobe's Stephen Nielson — Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Digit, a free savings account that monitors spending habits to automatically save users money, exits closed beta and is now open for US accounts — Digit is the automated savings plan we've been waiting for — Until recently, my savings consisted mostly of unexpected windfalls.

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @anildash

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.

More: Marketing Land and The Overspill. Tweets: @joshelman. Thanks:@ericblattberg. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IFTTT Launches 3 “Do” Apps To Automate Photo Sharing, Tasks, Notes; Rebrands Main App “IF” — IFTTT made its name in the tech world with a platform for “Recipes” that people could use to automate online and mobile actions in and between different apps and services — developer mechanics, simplified.

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 …

More: The Daily Dot, Pandora Blog, PC World, Fortune, Bloomberg Business, hypebot, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation and SMBlog. Thanks:@mattbraga

Roger Cheng / CNET:

T-Mobile tops Q4 estimates with a profit of $101M, revenue rises 20% to $8.15B — T-Mobile swings to Q4 profit as customer growth zooms along — The wireless carrier expects the momentum to continue into 2015, with the estimated addition of 2.2 million to 3.2 million new customers who pay at the end of the month.

More: The Register, Android Authority, Gigaom, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and GeekWire. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

YouTube sees 50% annual growth in views for the last three years, despite Facebook's focus on 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 …

More: PC World and Re/code. See also Mediagazer

Ben Popper / The Verge:

US treasury to accept some payments through PayPal and Dwolla in small pilot on Pay.gov — The US Treasury will now accept PayPal — Sorry, your bitcoins are still no good here — Last year US government agencies collected a whopping $3.37 trillion in revenue.

More: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, CNET, Digital Payments, TIME, Federal Computer Week and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@jslampe

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 …

More: PandoDaily, TechSpot and DSLreports. Tweets: @dangillmor

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect

More: Pen Test Partners, ExtremeTech, BBC, The Register, BetaNews, Guardian, Tech Times, SlashGear, GSMArena Blog, Slashdot, DSLreports, SamMobile, Fox News and Gizmodo. Thanks:@bradchacos

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Expands Marketing Platform With Off-Site Ads And New Lead Targeting Tools — LinkedIn is launching an expanded version of its Marketing Solutions platform today. There are new products, an expansion beyond Linkedin Itself, and a broader vision for helping advertisers reach potential customers throughout the sales cycle.

More: Marketing Solutions Blog, AdExchanger, Re/code, WebProNews and TechFrag

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

IT monitoring company ScienceLogic raises $43M Series D led by Goldman Sachs — Goldman Sachs Leads $43 Million Investment in ScienceLogic … Moving software to the cloud, which many companies are now doing, can make their operations simpler and more efficient, but the cloud brings new headaches, too.

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, TechCrunch and Forbes

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Mobile Development Suite combines Flurry Analytics with ad and search tools for apps — New Yahoo Mobile Development Suite Seduces App Makers With Analytics, Search, Ads — Today at Yahoo's first mobile developer conference, the tech giant unveiled its new Yahoo Mobile Development Suite …

More: SiliconBeat, Yahoo, CNET, New York Times, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Marketing Land and Virtual-Strategy Magazine. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine

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