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Anne Toth / Slack:

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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Tweets: @waxpancake, @mattlanger, @marcinw, @nikcub, @doctorow, @colincornaby, @moneyries and @dcurtis

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.

More: Engadget, The Verge, TrustedReviews, Pocket-lint, Gamasutra, SlashGear, Polygon, PC Advisor, VR Focus, GeekSnack and Blue's News

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.

More: The Verge, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, PC World, Engadget, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, The Next Web, TweakTown News, GSMArena Blog, Geek.com, TrustedReviews and VentureBreak. Tweets: @hunterwalk

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 …

More: Insight-labs, The Verge, Graham Cluley, The Hill, Threatpost and Slashdot

Tweets: @githubstatus, @jeffmgould, @github and @lorenzofb

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+,” …

More: U.S. Securities …, TechPresident, New York Business Journal, Washington Post, CoinDesk, Reuters and Forbes

Tweets: @josephcohen, @blumenfeld, @howardlindzon, @berkie1 and @digiphile

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Paul McNamara / Network World:

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.”

More: PC Magazine, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, The Register and Slashdot. Tweets: @alicetruong. Thanks:@buzzblog

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.

More: Engadget, Android Police, Android Authority, PC World, GeekWire, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo and Fortune

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.

More: Johnson & Johnson, The Next Web, ZDNet, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, CNNMoney, New York Times, ABC News, TechCrunch, Engadget, Telegraph, VatorNews, Financial Times, Agence France-Presse, Modern Healthcare, BostonGlobe.com and Benzinga

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 …

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook's solar-powered Internet drone, dubbed Aquila, with a wingspan of a Boeing 737 to begin testing this summer — Facebook, Moving Ahead with Drone, Plans Test This Summer — Facebook plans to test a version of its solar-powered drone this summer, a step in its efforts …

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.

More: PC World, CNET, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Android Police, Franç, Ubergizmo, Electronista, BetaNews, Ausdroid, Engadget, Geek.com and The Next Web. Thanks:@harrisonweber

BBC:

Google loses appeal court bid to prevent UK Safari users from suing over circumvention of privacy settings — Safari users win right to sue Google over privacy — Google has delivered “notices of removal” to sites whose content is being removed from some searches

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