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| Steve Ragan / CSO Online: |
Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments, breached; attackers release 400GB of internal documents, source code, and emails — Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data — Firm made famous for helping governments spy on their citizens left exposed
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| The Intercept: |
New documents show XKEYSCORE, NSA's Google-like tool, collects more data than previously reported including web searches and router configuration information — XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications — Illustrations by Blue Delliquanti and David Axe for The Intercept
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| Ari Rabinovitch / Reuters: |
Google's Waze to start carpooling pilot program in Israel — Google-owned online mapping company Waze is launching a carpooling pilot program in Israel where commuters pay fellow drivers a small fee for a ride to and from work. — The new application, called RideWith …
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The Next Web, Tech.eu and Haaretz
| Wall Street Journal: |
SEC investigating improper selling of private tech stocks including employee-owned shares — Regulators Probe Marketing of Hot Private Tech Shares — Trading of such shares has boomed in recent months — Securities regulators have launched a broad investigation into whether hedge funds … | Fred Wilson / AVC: |
A media platform based on blockchain will arrive soon, which unlike Reddit or Twitter can't be policed — The Decentral Authority — We've been big fans of Reddit since it was part of the first Y Combinator class ten years ago this summer. We've watched closely as it emerged as a community powered mostly by its users.
| Kevin Fitchard / Fortune: |
The economics of inflight Wi-Fi: why prices and speeds vary so widely — The crazy economics of inflight Wi-Fi — It's summer time, and that means millions of Americans will soon make their way to airports across the country. An amenity featured on more and more flights these days …
Tweets: @gigastacey and @kfitchard
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Pay expected to go live in the U.K. on July 14th, £20+ transactions starting this fall — Apple appears to be planning to enable its Apple Pay iPhone mobile payments service in the United Kingdom on July 14th, according to sources at multiple retailers.| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Why YouTube's recommendation algorithm began prioritizing watch time instead of views in 2012 — The ‘terrifying’ moment in 2012 when YouTube changed its entire philosophy — Although there wasn't any Roman-style backstabbing, YouTubers will remember the Ides of March 2012 as a traumatic day in the company's history.| Ricardo Bilton / Digiday: |
Microsoft's ad business withered because it tried to beat Google in search, overspent on aQuantive, and had warring factions in its organization — Autopsy: Why Microsoft's ad business withered — On Tuesday, Microsoft said that it was handing over its ad sales business to AOL …
Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Christopher White / Neowin: |
History of the original Xbox: a last minute switch from AMD to Intel, Red Ring of Death, more — The history of Xbox as told by the leaders of the company — There's no question that the Xbox has a sordid past. From the Duke controller to the RRoD, things haven't always gone smoothly for Microsoft's gaming console.
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IGN, GamePolitics blogs, WinBeta, TechnoBuffalo, destructoid and Ars Technica UK
| Nolan Lawson / Read the Tea Leaves: |
Apple is falling behind other browser makers in implementing web standards in Safari — Safari is the new IE — Last weekend I attended EdgeConf, a conference populated by many of the leading lights in the web industry. It featured panel talks and breakout sessions with a focus …
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Read the Tea Leaves, Kenneth Auchenberg, Six Colors and iMore
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| Annie Lowrey / New York Magazine: |
Lyft can survive as #2 by differentiating from Uber on user experience and staying focused just on ride-sharing — Can Lyft pull an Avis? — John Zimmer is one of the two founders of the ride-sharing service Lyft, and on a hazy spring afternoon, he was standing on the top …
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