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Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows:
Microsoft announces Windows 10 will launch this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, partners with Xiaomi to test the OS on Mi 4 devices  —  Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages  —  Today at the renewed Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) …
Reuters:
Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Windows 10 even for PCs with non-genuine copies of Windows, to tackle piracy  —  Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10  —  (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market …
Fast Company:
Tim Cook on Apple's Future: Everything Can Change Except Values  —  Tim Cook: Steve felt that most people live in a small box.  They think they can't influence or change things a lot.  I think he would probably call that a limited life.  And more than anybody I've ever met, Steve never accepted that.
Fast Company:
Tim Cook talks about his friendship with Steve in an excerpt from “Becoming Steve Jobs”, available March 24
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Dark Web's top drug market, Evolution, vanishes overnight, in what appears to be a $12M scam  —  Dark Web's ‘Evolution Market’ Vanishes  —  The Evolution Market, an online black market that sells everything contraband — from marijuana, heroin and ecstasy to stolen identities …
Astro Teller / Backchannel:
Google X head Astro Teller on origin of Google X, Project Loon, Glass, self-driving cars, Project Wing, and failure  —  How to Make Moonshots  —  Astro Teller says that at Google[x], failure is indeed an option.  So is changing the world. … Closing keynote of South by Southwest
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
HTTPS-crippling FREAK exploit affects thousands of Android and iOS apps  —  Attackers can use FREAK to steal passwords for finance, shopping, or medical apps.  —  While almost all the attention paid to the HTTPS-crippling FREAK vulnerability has focused on browsers, consider this …
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
Darktrace, The Cyber Security Startup Backed By Mike Lynch, Raises Further $18M  —  Cyber security startup Darktrace, which is already backed by Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's Invoke Capital, has picked up $18 million in new funding, at a valuation of $80 million.
More: The Register, ZDNet and Reuters.  Thanks:@sohear
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
HTC will replace your One M9 in the US if it breaks or you want to switch carriers  —  ‘Because bad things happen to good smartphones.’  —  Every smartphone maker claims to support its devices after they've been bought, but today HTC asserts itself as the company that does it more comprehensively than anyone else.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Shuddle Raises $9.6M For Its Uber-Style Service For Kids And Seniors  —  As Uber continues to extend is well-funded tentacles into ever-more categories of transportation, a startup focusing on children and elderly people has raised some money of its own to compete.

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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

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WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

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