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March 23, 2015, 9:55 AM
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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
HTC One M9 review: great design, performance, and battery life, but camera disappoints  —  HTC One M9 review  —  Haven't we seen this before?  —  Déjà vu (noun): a feeling that one has seen or heard something before  —  I've spent the better part of the last two weeks with HTC's new One M9.
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Square Introduces Square Cash for Businesses, With a Low 1.5 Percent Processing Fee  —  Five years ago, Square introduced a sleek card reader to the small-business world that made it easy for everyone from taxi drivers to craft sellers to coffee shop owners to accept credit card payments for the first time.
Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
Former Twitter employee files class action lawsuit for gender discrimination, says company's hiring and promotion processes favor men  —  Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination  —  A former software engineer says the company's promotion process favors men
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Critics say CISA won't boost security, will allow private companies to share more user data with government  —  CISA Security Bill: An F for Security But an A+ for Spying  —  When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1 …
Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:
Advice for raising seed in a feeding frenzy: anticipate your A round, raise what you need, and hire VCs like employees  —  An Open Letter to YC Founders on Demo Day Eve  —  It's YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun.  It's frankly kinda tired.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
Google's Nexus Player officially hits the UK on March 26th for £80  —  Google successfully invaded living rooms everywhere with its simple and cheap Chromecast dongle, and late last year announced its next product bound to the big screen: the Nexus Player.
Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:
Review of Dell's latest Linux laptop, the M3800 Developer Edition: quality build, but poor battery life, 4K scaling issues, high $1500 base price  —  Dell's Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges  —  4k scaling issues keep it from being perfect—but, hey, it's for developers, right?
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Researchers uncover method to hack BIOS firmware, subvert secure operating systems like Tails  —  Hacking BIOS Chips Isn't Just the NSA's Domain Anymore  —  The ability to hack the BIOS chip at the heart of every computer is no longer reserved for the NSA and other three-letter agencies.
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
How Life360 prevailed in court after its CEO sent “Dear Piece of S**t” letter to AGIS, a company suing them for patent infringement  —  How Life360 won its patent war  —  Jury saw CEO's “Dear piece of s**t” letter to his “patent troll”—and understood.
Financial Times:
Universal pushes Spotify to add limits to its free tier during licensing negotiations  —  Universal takes on Spotify freemium model  —  The “freemium” model used by Spotify to amass 60m users and 15m paying subscribers around the world is facing a new challenge just months …
David Ruddock / Android Police:
New “On-Body Detection” Smart Lock Mode In Android Seems To Be Hitting Some Devices  —  If a tipster's screenshots are to be believed (and I think in this case, they are to be believed), Google is testing and / or rolling out a new smart lock mode called on-body detection.

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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA's board adopts a resolution to formally resist Paramount's WBD deal unless “enforceable safeguards” are established against a drop in production

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
The Atlantic files to dismiss FBI Director Kash Patel's $250M defamation suit, calling it “politically motivated”, and seeks DOJ records to uphold its reporting

Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Former FCC commissioners, lawyers, and advisers issue a filing saying the FCC's ABC early license renewal proceeding is “unprecedented” and a “grave violation”

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