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| Connie Yu / The Intercept: |
Government and Anthem data breaches pose indefinite threat of future harm as birthdate, full name, and SSN remain integral to identity in many systems — Data Theft Today Poses Indefinite Threat of “Future Harm” — Benjamin Nuss was one of the nearly 80 million people whose social security number …
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| New York Times: |
White House confirms hackers breached second computer system at OPM, says President is considering financial sanctions against attackers — White House Weighs Sanctions After Second Breach of a Computer System — WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday revealed that hackers had breached …
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Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface — News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Expands Prime With Goods Shipped Directly From Merchants — Amazon.com has quietly begun rolling out a program that could dramatically increase the number of items eligible for two-day shipping through its Prime membership. — The e-commerce giant is now listing items in Prime … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Oracle's sales of new licenses decline as more startups embrace open source database software — Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Souped-Up Free Software — Dan Wagner, the chief executive officer of U.K.-based mobile payments company Powa Technologies Ltd., poses a challenge for database giant Oracle Corp.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
a16z, USV invest $1M in OB1, company behind open decentralized marketplace protocol OpenBazaar, formerly DarkMarket, enabling Bitcoin transactions for any goods — Some of tech's biggest investors are funding a police-proof marketplace that lets you sell literally anything| Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: |
DJI announces developer focused, expandable Matrice M100 drone, object-avoidance system, SDK allowing integration with Oculus, Leap Motion and other devices — Pilots Could Fly DJI's New M100 Drone For Developers Using Oculus VR Goggles — Imagine piloting a drone by seeing where it's ing using … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Beats Electronics planned to introduce a WiFi speaker by the holidays in 2014, but effectively killed it post acquisition — Apple Music's Missing Link: How Beats Electronics Fumbled Its Sonos Killer (Exclusive) — Pop stars, live music, superlatives: The launch …
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| Shawn Knight / TechSpot: |
Google is taking additional steps to reduce Chrome's battery draw — Google recently implemented a new feature in Chrome that detects and shuts down any unnecessary Flash content on a web page. The intent was to free up some CPU cycles and ultimately, improve battery life on mobile devices and notebooks.| Ewen MacAskill / Guardian: |
Germany drops inquiry into claims NSA tapped Angela Merkel's phone — Prosecutors say they can find no actionable evidence to support claims German chancellor's mobile phone was tapped by US National Security Agency — German federal prosecutors have closed their investigation … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Amazon releases first transparency report, covering January 1-May 31: 813 subpoenas of which 66% were fully complied with, 0-249 national security requests — After years of silence, Amazon releases first transparency report — The cloud giant said it was never part of the government's PRISM surveillance program.
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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Google Play Offers Its First Free App Of The Week—A PBS App Tucked Away In The Family Section — Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets …
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