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April 12, 2015, 5:00 PM

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO — First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online — Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:

HBO Now streaming service faces first major stress test with Sunday's Game of Thrones premiere

More: CNET. Tweets: @pkafka and @business

Stack Overflow:

Stack Overflow user survey: 92% male, 41.8% self-taught, 54.5% use Javascript, 32.4% are full-stack web developers, 9.1% mobile developers — Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 — Every year we run a survey. This year, more developers answered more questions than ever before.

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Tweets: @mjasay, @samthebrand, @anildash and @mims

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business — Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business — In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …

More: The Next Web, Gnip, Forbes and Search Engine Journal

Tweets: @stevesi, @mdmgeek, @jamesdcameron, @jstrauss, @jamesaneufeld, @panzer, @mikeisaac, @jstrauss, @biologypartners and @howardlindzon

Nick Halstead / DataSift:

Social intelligence service DataSift says its Twitter firehose access expires August, bemoans impact on its customers and their customers, touts Facebook access

More: Bothsides of the Table, New York Times, Re/code, The Register, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat and Beyond Search

Tweets: @msuster, @loic, @bhorowitz, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @nik, @fattypontoonski, @markzohar, @vivian, @jakeludington and @ruskin147

David Katzmaier / CNET:

Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class — Roku 3 (2015) review: A fresh voice improves the best search in streaming — Competing against Apple, Amazon and Google isn't easy. Just ask Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and Yahoo.

More: TechCrunch

Washington Post:

Inside the battle over crypto backdoors as the White House prepares report for President Obama — As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security — For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue …

More: Ars Technica, Slashdot, The Verge and Engadget

Tweets: @binitamshah, @csoghoian, @dangillmor, @xor, @xor and @trevortimm

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Galaxy S6 review: spectacular camera, Exynos beats Snapdragon 810, but TouchWiz and Material Design do not mesh, S-Voice ruins always-on voice support — Samsung Galaxy S6 review: It's what's on the outside that counts — A great camera and premium materials offset the loss of power-user features.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Mini-review of Hisense's $149 ARM Chromebook: well-made for price, but screen is mediocre, short battery life compared to Intel Chromebooks — Mini-review: Hisense's ARM Chromebook actually isn't awful for $149 — The laptop doesn't cut corners that $199 Chromebooks aren't already cutting.

More: TechCrunch

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Andreessen on factors slowing IPOs and tech M&A, higher private valuations, how tech investment remains tiny from macro POV, education and health startups, more — Brainstorming with Marc Andreessen — Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen is one of America's most active venture capitalists.

More: Breakingviews, Medium and Business Insider

Tweets: @saralerner and @semil

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Flir FX is a home security camera that also acts as an action camera and a car dash cam — The Flir FX is a security camera with bigger ambitions — Anyone who grew up in the 1980s probably knows of Bo Jackson. Unlike most professional athletes, Jackson played both baseball and football, managing to become an all-star in each.

More: Gizmodo, The Next Web, Popular Mechanics, App Advice, SlashGear, TechHive, Mashable and AndroidHeadlines.com

Leon Spencer / ZDNet:

DARPA's BRASS program aims to create software that can remain functional for over a century by adapting itself to changing computing environments — New DARPA project aims to do away with IT updates — Summary:DARPA is hoping to do away with software updates as it embarks on a new project …

More: SD Times

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Yahoo leadership reorganization: Simon Khalaf promoted to SVP to oversee Tumblr and home page, David Karp no longer reports to Mayer, Adam Cahan runs video — Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, announced a major reorganization …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Mercury News, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha and Fortune. See also Mediagazer

Daniel Rivero / Fusion:

Advocacy group Privacy International creates fake companies to gain access to surveillance industry trade shows and expose the industry's surveillance powers — Meet the privacy activists who spy on the surveillance industry — LONDON- On the second floor of a narrow brick building …

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