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Hackers leak names and contact details of over 9K DHS staff, claim DOJ is next — Hackers leak DHS staff directory, claim DOJ is next — Staff directory contains details on over 9,000 employees — On Sunday, an account on Twitter posted a Department of Homeland Security staff directory with 9,355 names.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Instagram version 7.15 enables switching between up to five accounts on iOS and Android — Instagram launches account switching on iOS and Android — Facebook-owned Instagram today announced that starting this week, users will be able to switch accounts when using the app on Android and iOS.
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Instagram Blog, Engadget, MacRumors, Android Police, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Adweek, Refinery29, ZDNet, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, iMore, Motherboard, SocialTimes, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Tech Times, MobileSyrup.com and WebProNews. Tweets: @ttxao
| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
India bans zero-rated internet services, including Facebook's Free Basics, for infringing on the principles of net neutrality — India's Telecom Authorities Have Ruled Against Facebook's Controversial Free Internet Plan — “Who could possibly be against this?” Zuckerberg asked.
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Mark Zuckerberg, BBC, The Verge, World Wide Web Foundation, GeekWire, Washington Post, Slate, Breitbart, VentureBeat, Hindustan Times, Techdirt, BetaNews, Save the Internet, The Register, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, Times of India, Ars Technica UK, Tech in Asia, Fusion, TechCrunch, Engadget, BetaNews, Tech Times, SlashGear, Slate, Motherboard, The Register, Guardian, Wired.co.uk, Business Insider, Gizmodo and The Next Web
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
CBS Says Super Bowl 50 Broke Streaming Records With 3.96 Million Unique Viewers — CBS reported earlier this morning that its live stream of Super Bowl 50 broke all prior streaming records for the big game. Now the network has released numbers to back up that claim: according …
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Hashtags included in 45% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook or Twitter mentioned in only 5% of ads — Hashtags In Super Bowl Ads Dropped Slightly To 45% In 2016 — As with last year, social networks were rarely mentioned, with Twitter and Facebook tied in our count.
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Verizon enlists AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore possible bid for Yahoo assets — Verizon Said to Enlist AOL CEO Armstrong to Explore Yahoo Deal — No formal offer yet, but Verizon CEO favors ‘marrying’ assets — Armstrong's advance work builds on ties to Yahoo's CEO Mayer| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple open sources benchmarking suite for Swift — Apple today announced in a post on its Swift blog that it is open sourcing the Swift benchmark suite. This announcement comes two months after the company made the Swift programming language open source, allowing the developer community to have direct access to the platform.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Google to release Gear VR-like headset this year compatible with a broad range of smartphones, embed VR technology into Android OS — Google pushes further into world of virtual reality — Google is developing a new virtual-reality headset for smartphones, and adding extra support …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, BGR, eWeek, FierceWireless, Xconomy, CNET, Computerworld, SlashGear, Business Insider, PCWorld, PhonesReviews UK, ValueWalk, TouchArcade, Tubefilter, International Business Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, TechSpot, Phandroid, Neowin, Droid Life, Motherboard, Fone Arena, Android Beat, Daily Mail, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, Pocket-lint, High Scalability, Pocketnow, Silicon Republic, CNET, Road to VR, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, VRFocus, VentureBeat, Mashable and ZDNet. Tweets: @abatalion
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
The Pirate Bay, other torrent sites add support for Torrents Time plugin allowing you to stream movies and TV shows from your browser — The Pirate Bay now uses Torrents Time to let you stream all its movies and TV shows — On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
StubHub takes on Ticketmaster with new platform for both primary and secondary tickets — StubHub has announced big plans to infiltrate the primary ticketing market, as the eBay-owned company takes on the might of Ticketmaster in the lucrative live events realm.| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business: |
Wired to start offering ad-free version of its website for $3.99 a month from Feb 16, will block visitors using ad blockers — Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers — Readers can pay $3.99 for a four-week subscription to a version of its site without advertising.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Recruitment marketplace Hired raises $40M in a Series C round led by Lumia Capital, acquires Jobbop in Australia, Breaz in France, and Zlemma in US — Recruitment marketplace Hired nabs $40M, acquires 3 companies in U.S., France, and Australia — Hired, the jobs marketplace for techies … Sponsor Posts
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