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Facebook to begin alerting users when it suspects their accounts are targets of state-sponsored attacks — Notifications for targeted attacks — The security of people's accounts is paramount at Facebook, which is why we constantly monitor for potentially malicious activity and offer many options to proactively secure your account.
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| Dean Baquet / Medium: |
NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet responds to Jay Carney's post, says that the former Amazon employee he said left over allegations of fraud disputes the claim — Dean Baquet Responds To Jay Carney's Medium Post — In response to your posting on Medium this morning, I want to reiterate …
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New York Times story on Amazon left out critical information, including that one named source resigned after internal investigation revealed fraud — What The New York Times Didn't Tell You — “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
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FBI and other federal agencies are investigating a teen who claims to have hacked CIA director's AOL account, which contained work-related documents — Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account — Hillary Rodham Clinton's email scandal didn't stop the head of the CIA from using …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber branded mapping cars collecting 3D images of streets to improve routing technology in driver app and enable more accurate ETAs — Uber Has Mapping Cars Now, Too — Don't be surprised if you see an Uber-branded car outfitted with a human-size 3D camera driving around your neighborhood.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find 256 iOS apps using a third-party advertising SDK to collect users' personal info; Apple says it will ban them — Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users' personal info — Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: true flagships with little-to-no compromise, all other Android devices are second class citizens — Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: The true flagships of the Android ecosystem — With little-to-no compromise, these are now the smartphones to beat.
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The massive 27-inch Lenovo Yoga Home tablet is a tabletop PC with a 1920x1080 native resolution, three-hour battery life, starting at $1499 available in October — The massive 27-inch Lenovo Yoga Home tablet brings back the tabletop PC — This big all-in-one doubles as a futuristic touchscreen tabletop perfect for sharing.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Goes After Microsoft And IBM By Making Google Apps For Work Free While Customers Still Under Competitor's Contract — To acquire more Google Apps for Work customers, Google just announced a new promotion that's a huge shot across Microsoft's bow. The company says that it will give … | Chris Yeh / Medium: |
Eric Schmidt talks running Google, scaling fast, managing chaos, hiring, Alphabet, more — CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt — Q: You had a substantive career before Google, both at Sun and Novell. What did you learn that helped at Google. — A: I went to visit my old boss at Xerox PARC, Bob Taylor.
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
US Department of Transportation says drones purchased will need to be registered with US government, will create taskforce to explore which aircraft are exempt — Got a drone? You'll have to register it with the US government — “Registering unmanned aircraft will help build a culture of accountability.”| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo's Marketing Partnership SVP Lisa Licht Also Departs — According to sources, besides development chief Jackie Reses, Yahoo also lost its SVP of marketing partnerships and platforms Lisa Licht last week. — Licht, who came to the Silicon Valley Internet giant in 2012 from Hasbro …
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Navigation App Waze Gets A Huge Redesign - Now Less Cluttered, But Still Needs Improvement — The Google-owned navigation app Waze has a number of standout features - its ability to alert you to traffic conditions and speed traps, and re-route you around traffic jams, for example …
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