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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Automattic, in move away from PHP, launches new, open sourced admin interface for WordPress.com built on Node.js and React, releases Mac OS X app — WordPress.com Gets a New Face and Joins the JavaScript Age — The popular blogging site WordPress.com unveiled a new admin interface today …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with easily cloneable root certificates — Root certificate debacle that hit Lenovo now visits the House of Dell. — In a move eerily similar to the Superfish debacle that visited Lenovo in February, Dell is shipping computers that come preinstalled …
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| Laura P. Thomas / Direct2Dell: |
Dell posts instructions to remove unsafe eDellRoot certificate, will provide software update that removes it automatically today — Response to Concerns Regarding eDellroot Certificate — Today we became aware that a certificate (eDellRoot), installed by our Dell Foundation Services application …
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Android Studio 2.0 with Instant Run, faster Android emulator, and new GPU profiler — At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android emulator, and a new GPU profiler.| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Square starts shipping its chip card reader with Apple Pay support; Samsung Pay now supports Chase cards — Square rolls out readers to accept Apple Pay — NEW YORK — Square is rolling out new mobile payment readers to 100 local businesses around the country, allowing such merchants …
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squareup.com, Samsung Tomorrow, Visa Europe, MacRumors, The Verge, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Macworld, MacRumors, Engadget, bizjournals, iMore, SlashGear, Engadget, The Next Web, Droid Life, SiliconBeat, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, Phandroid, InvestorPlace, O'Grady's PowerPage, Apple World Today, 9to5Mac, Android Police, Android Authority, Pocketnow, Android Beat, Tech Times, The Verge, SamMobile and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Snapchat launches Story Explorer to let users view multiple perspectives of moments in Live Stories, starting in New York and Los Angeles — Inside Snapchat's newest feature: Story Explorer — Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel grabs his iPhone, opens his Venice company's app and taps an icon for “Los Angeles.”
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See also Mediagazer| Amanda Hess / Slate: |
Sony employees on the hack, one year later — What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee as the unprecedented cyberattack tore the company apart. — Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of Sony Pictures Entertainment.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple to launch Apple Pay in China by February, has inked deals with country's big four state-run banks to support the platform — Apple Pay to Launch in China by February, Sources Say — Apple struck deals recently with China's big four state-run banks, paving the way for Apple Pay's entry
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9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Business Insider, AppleInsider, CNET, iMore, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, TrustedReviews, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Reuters and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @cnbcnow
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Compare for mortgages in partnership with Zillow and LendingTree, available only in California for now — Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool In California, More States Coming Soon — Google is now a licensed mortgage broker in California.| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
FAA drone task force recommends registration for pilots, not individual drones — If the FAA accepts the task force recommendations, registration will be mandatory prior to the operation of any UAS weighing more than half a pound.
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New York Times, Motherboard, Computerworld, faa.gov, Geeky Gadgets, eWeek, USA Today, ITworld.com, AppleInsider, Washington Post, GeekWire, Forbes, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, FierceMobileIT News, Insurance Journal, Engadget and Tech Times. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness
| Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land: |
Google received 15.7M copyright related URL takedown requests over one week in November, almost double from 8.2M last year — Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month — The number of URL copyright removal requests sent to Google continues to climb at a rapid rate.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
AWS launches EC2 Dedicated Hosts to let users run many instances on each server — Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest public cloud infrastructure provider, today announced the availability of a new service called EC2 Dedicated Hosts. The feature can help companies run the software …
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AWS Official Blog and The Register
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