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Sources: Jacqueline Reses, chief development officer at Yahoo, leaving to join Square — Yahoo Executive Reses Said to Leave Company to Join Square — Reses recently shifted role to focus on Alibaba spinoff — CEO Mayer hired Reses in 2012 to lead corporate development| 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 … | 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.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches Quality Program for MacBook Pro Anti-Reflective Coating Issues — Apple has issued an internal notice about a new Quality Program that addresses anti-reflective coating issues on MacBook and MacBook Pro models with Retina displays, as confirmed by multiple sources.
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New research suggests NSA may have cracked commonly used long prime numbers in 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman to decrypt connections on a large scale — How is NSA breaking so much crypto? — There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic.
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As Cubans come online for the first time, a look at foreign companies' efforts affecting connectivity, censorship policies, and the net's early impact — Havana's Hotspots — A midnight rain fell through the oak trees of Vedado, a neighborhood in Havana, onto the heads of a dozen people gathered outside a small hotel.
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Eric Schmidt talks running Google, scaling fast, managing chaos, hiring, Alphabet, more — CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt — Eric Emerson Schmidt was born in Washington, D.C. and spent his youth in its Northern Virginia suburbs. He was one of... en.wikipedia.org| Facebook: |
Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts — 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.| New York Times: |
As it expands globally, Netflix faces increasing competition and demand for local-language programming — Netflix Faces Challengers in Its Push to Expand Globally — At first glance, Miguel Díez Ferreira would seem to make an ideal customer for Netflix.| Jerry Neumann / Reaction Wheel: |
On Carlota Perez's theory of technological revolutions, and what it could mean for the tech industry over the next ten years — The Deployment Age — A couple of weeks ago James Gross, co-founder of Percolate, had me speak at their Transition conference.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
LG Gram 14" review: good display, most portable laptop for its size, but awful battery life, flimsy build, no backlit keyboard, and screen wobbles as you type — LG's Gram laptop is unbearably light — LG is one of the most innovative companies in the world, but you wouldn't know it by looking at its products.
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Law enforcement requesting suspects' DNA data from databases of Ancestry and 23andMe — Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA — When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic tests … Sponsor Posts
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