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Facebook tweaks News Feed to show more status updates from friends in lieu of liked stories, says post reach and referral traffic to publishers could decline — News Feed FYI: Balancing Content from Friends and Pages — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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Adobe Lightroom 6 arrives with facial recognition, HDR, improved editing tools, mobile apps — Adobe launches Lightroom 6 photo app update as rival Aperture bites the dust — Adobe has launched a major upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, its desktop photo management and editing app …
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Apple Offers Developers a Chance to Buy Apple Watch Sport With Guaranteed April 28 Delivery Date — Apple today began sending out emails to iOS developers, offering them a chance to purchase a 42mm Apple Watch Sport with a Blue Sport Band that has a guaranteed shipment date of April 28 …
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Amazon launches Amazon Destinations for booking short hotel getaways in select markets — Amazon Travel Launches New Brand, Amazon Destinations — Amazon's new and expanded hotel service is called Amazon Destinations and it is currently available on desktop and mobile.| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Failed Apple Rootpipe Fix Leaves Backdoor On All Macs, Researchers Claim — When Apple released the latest version of Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this month, it claimed to have fixed a significant flaw, a backdoor named Rootpipe, that had been resident on its computers since 2011.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp for iOS is updated with free VoIP calling, quick photo option, new sharing extension — WhatsApp Begins Rolling Out Its Voice-Calling Feature To iOS Users — Less than a month after WhatsApp introduced free voice calls to users of its Android app, so the Facebook-owned company … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Mediagazer introduces ads for media jobs, and Techmeme's job ads now extend to its mobile site — For nearly four years, Techmeme has offered space on our front page for companies to advertise that they're hiring, and link their job offerings. Unlike typical job boards … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: BlackBerry Is Buying File Security And DRM Startup WatchDox for up to $150M — Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has been on a mission to turn around its beleaguered handset business by focusing more on software, and it looks like it has taken a significant step in that direction, specifically around file security and DRM.| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Twitter begins automatically filtering notifications of abusive mentions, broadens violent threats policy, and introduces temporary account suspensions — Twitter to filter notifications for all accounts in effort to cut down on abuse — Social network moves to ban indirect threats …
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Aereo to settle broadcasters' copyright claims of more than $99M for $950K — Aereo Settles Broadcasters' Copyright Claims for $950,000 — Aereo Inc., the online-TV service brought down by a U.S. Supreme Court copyright ruling, agreed to pay Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and other broadcasters …
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FAQ: Google's mobile friendly algorithm update, rolling out today, explained — Mobilegeddon Checklist: How To Prepare For This Week's Google Mobile Friendly Update — The Google Mobile Friendly Update launches tomorrow, a day that many including ourselves here at Search Engine Land are calling “Mobilegeddon.”
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FBI, TSA warn airlines to watch for network tampering and intrusions on flights, a week after security researcher was detained for joke tweet — Feds Warn Airlines to Look Out for Passengers Hacking Jets — In response to reports last week that passenger Wi-Fi networks make some planes vulnerable …
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Over 1,500 iOS apps, including apps by Citrix, Alibaba, Rotten Tomatoes, still have HTTPS-crippling bug, weeks after it was first disclosed — 1,500 iOS apps have HTTPS-crippling bug. Is one of them on your device? — Apps downloaded two million times are vulnerable to trivial man-in-the-middle attacks.
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