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Slack confirms hackers accessed its user database in February, introduces two factor authentication — March 2015 Security Incident and the Launch of Two Factor Authentication — We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Valve to offer HTC Vive Developer Edition for free initially; sign-ups begin as soon as next week with kits shipping later in spring — Valve to offer HTC Vive Developer Edition for free — Developers “big or small” will be able to apply possibly as early as next week.
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Intel is in talks to buy programmable logic device maker Altera, which would be its largest acquisition ever given Altera's $10.4B market capitalization — Intel in Talks to Buy Altera — Intel is in talks to buy Altera Corp. in what would be Intel's largest purchase ever.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
YouTube is experimenting with 4K resolution, 60 FPS video on a limited selection of clips — YouTube Is Experimenting With Ultra High Def, Ultra Smooth Video Playback — Here Are The Examples — Just a few months back, YouTube bumped up the quality of the videos it hosts by allowing for gorgeous, 60 FPS video playback.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Baidu's Internet traffic was hijacked to DDoS GitHub and GreatFire in a move that required access to network infrastructure; GitHub DDoS attack continues — Did China Just Launch a Cyber Attack on GitHub? — Late Thursday night, the popular coding site GitHub announced that someone …
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| Kendall Almerico / Entrepreneur: |
SEC OKs rules letting technology startups raise up to $50M from unaccredited investors — SEC: Startups Can Now Raise $50 Million in ‘Mini IPO’ — The SEC on Wednesday approved game-changing final rules in the implementation of Title IV of the JOBS Act, known as “Regulation A+,” …
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Booth babes banned at RSA Conference as new guidelines prohibit overly revealing attire — RSA Conference bans ‘booth babes’ — In what may be a first for the technology industry, RSA Conference 2015 next month apparently will be bereft of a long-controversial trade-show attraction: “booth babes.”
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| Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal: |
Jonah Becker, HTC's head of design, resigns after less than a year, shortly after release of flagship One M9 — Jonah Becker, Designer Behind HTC's Flagship One M9, Is Leaving — Although revenues have stopped falling for now at Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, executive departures continue.
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with Johnson & Johnson to develop robots to assist surgeons, pending clearance from antitrust authorities — Google Moves to the Operating Room in Robotics Deal with J&J — Google's search for big new industries for its technology has led it to the operating room.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Salesforce cancels Indiana events to protest anti-gay law — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says he has canceled all his company's events in the state of Indiana after its governor signed into law a bill that makes it legal for individuals to use religious grounds as a defense when they are sued …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google quietly brings data compression feature to desktop Chrome with its Data Saver extension — Google quietly launches Data Saver extension for Chrome — Google has quietly released a Data Saver extension for Chrome, bringing the company's data compression feature to the desktop for the first time.
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PC World, CNET, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Franç, Android Police, Ubergizmo, Electronista, BetaNews, Ausdroid, Engadget, Geek.com and The Next Web. Thanks:@harrisonweber
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry reports surprise $28M Q4 profit, but revenue declines from $6.8B last year to $3.3B — BlackBerry turns Q4 profit, but revenue continues to crater — Summary:BlackBerry's turnaround remains a work in progress, but the company has more than enough capital to see it through.Sponsor Posts
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