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February 19, 2015, 2:20 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.

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Tweets: @erratarob, @mattcutts, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @sarahjeong, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @supersat, @mattcutts, @spacekatgal, @dangillmor and @xor

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, Gigaom, Digital Trends, Re/code and PC World

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

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, BGR, Macworld, iMore, Business Insider, Vox, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com 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: Law360, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Gigaom, Associated Press, US News, The Verge, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, BGR, The Next Web, USA Today, PandoDaily, Yahoo Tech, Engadget, MacRumors, iMore, MacDailyNews, Ubergizmo and AppleInsider

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, CITEworld, Gigaom, FierceMobileIT News, SlashGear, The Fire Hose, Neowin, Cult of Mac, Geeky Gadgets, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, SuperSite for Windows and The Next Web

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 …

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: The Overspill and Tubefilter. Tweets: @joshelman. Thanks:@ericblattberg. See also Mediagazer

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: PC World, Pandora Blog, Fortune, Bloomberg Business, TechnoBuffalo, hypebot, Marketing Land, WebProNews, Business Insider, Digital Trends, SlashGear, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat and iMore

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 and TechCrunch. Tweets: @anildash

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

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: TechSpot and DSLreports. Tweets: @dangillmor

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

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

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

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, Re/code and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Inquirer, TechPresident, Network World, Electronista, dtg.org.uk, Financial Times and SlashGear

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

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:

More: Computerworld, The Mozilla Blog, TechSpot and CIO.com

Tweets: @johnath and @dalmaer

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: VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, TechCrunch and Forbes

eMarketer and Newsroom Posts:

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.

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.

More: Cyphort, The Register, Channel EYE, Slashdot and The Verge

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