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Anonymous Obama administration sources say US will retaliate against China for OPM hack and is weighing options that include breaching the Great Firewall — U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China's Hacking — The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China …
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Microsoft Said to Invest About $100 Million in Startup Uber — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to invest about $100 million in Uber Technologies Inc. at a valuation of approximately $50 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said. — The deal was finalized earlier on Friday …
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Sources: Uber closed round of nearly $1B with Microsoft participating, valuing the company at over $50B and bringing total funding to more than $5B — Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion — Ride-sharing app, which just closed a funding round, reaches mark faster than Facebook
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Japanese Police Arrest Mark Karpelès of Collapsed Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox — Official says police allege he manipulated the company's computer system to inflate its assets — TOKYO—Japanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpelès, the head of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox …
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Former DNI Mike McConnell, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, and Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn back strong encryption in op-ed — Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown — Clarification: Due to a production error, a version of this column was temporarily posted prematurely …
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Hackers find vulnerabilities in Industrial Ethernet Switches used in hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants — How hackers can take over nuclear power plants — The world's most important facilities—think massive hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants—are vulnerable to devastating cyberattacks.| New York Times: |
Xiaoice, Microsoft's Chinese chatbot, has a sense of humor, good listening skills, and 20M registered users — For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program — She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her …
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Trevor O'Brien, the Product Lead Running All Twitter Apps, Is Departing — Another key product exec is leaving Twitter. — Trevor O'Brien, who joined Twitter a year and a half ago from YouTube and oversees product for Twitter's iOS and Android apps, is departing the company, according to multiple sources.| Heather Somerville / Mercury News: |
Lyft forgoes global expansion in favor of U.S. market domination — SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft has walked back years of promises about a global expansion, and instead the car-booking company is doubling down on the U.S. market, hoping to beat its biggest foe here at home.
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Yahoo Will Acquire Fashion Startup Polyvore — Yahoo just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire style-focused community Polyvore. — In a blog post about the deal, Yahoo's senior vice president of publisher products Simon Khalaf highlighted “Polyvore's expertise … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
4th Amendment Lives: Court Tells US Government Get A Warrant If It Wants Mobile Phone Location Info — A potentially big ruling came out of the courtroom of Judge Lucy Koh yesterday, in which she affirmed a magistrate judge's decision to tell the government to get a warrant if it wants …
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Frontback announces they will not shut down, after signing an agreement with a new partner — Frontback, the once-hot startup that rejected a $40 million Twitter acquisition, is back from the dead — The selfie app Frontback has found a new partner and narrowly avoided shutting down.Sponsor Posts
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