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Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody, Blocking Access — Company executives made the revelation hours after the Department of Justice demanded in court that Apple create a way into Syed Farook's phone. — Managing Editor, BuzzFeed San Francisco — Andrew Burton / Getty Images
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
DoJ files motion to compel Apple to comply with an order to help the FBI access data on San Bernardino shooter's iPhone — DoJ files motion to compel Apple to comply with FBI order — DOJ files motion to compel Apple to assist FBI — CNBC's Eamon Javers reports the Department …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Executives Say New iPhones Also Vulnerable To ‘Back Door’ Requested By FBI — In a call with reporters today, Apple executives spoke in response to a motion the Justice Department filed today to force Apple to comply with a request from the FBI to provide access to the iPhone … | Eric Lichtblau / New York Times: |
Justice Department Calls Apple's Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’ — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department, impatient over its inability to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers, demanded Friday that a judge immediately order Apple to give it the technical tools to get inside the phone.
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| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg Business: |
House Judiciary Committee requests testimony from Apple officials, Energy and Commerce seeks testimony from Tim Cook and James Comey — Congress Seeks Apple Testimony Amid FBI Row Over Encryption — At least two House committees are planning hearings on issue — Apple is fighting a court order to help FBI unlock an iPhone
| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Inside Zenefits: fraternity-like atmoshphere, high-pressure sales culture, backend process reliant on manual work by inexperienced staff — How High-Flying Zenefits Fell To Earth — Parker Conrad, left, the Zenefits co-founder and former CEO. — The instructions that circulated through …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Yelp customer service employee publicly confronts CEO about low pay, is promptly fired — Yelp Customer Service Employee Protests Low Pay in Medium Post, Is Promptly Fired — Late on Friday afternoon, Talia Jane, a customer service employee for Yelp, penned a letter to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman … | Elspeth Reeve / New Republic: |
How Tumblr's teen comedy geniuses find fame, build audiences, outsmart ad networks, strike it rich, then lose it all, without adults ever noticing — That feeling when you hit a million followers, make more money than your mom, push a diet pill scheme, lose your blog, and turn 16.| Danny Yadron / Guardian: |
Interviews with Twitter novices reveal many feel frustrated and confused by product, intimidated by cliques — Twitter is struggling - probably because normal people don't know how to use it — Outside the media bubble, Twitter's processes and protocols can be confusing. yet its future depends …
Tweets: @dannysullivan and @digiphile
| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google to stop showing AdWords ads on right side of desktop search, will appear at top and bottom, with Product Listings Ads being only ads appearing on right — Confirmed: Google To Stop Showing Ads On Right Side Of Desktop Search Results Worldwide — A long-running test is now rolling … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
Leaked documents reveal Zenefits projected annual recurring revenue of $127M for 2015, but only topped $60M — Predicting the Future Is Hard, Especially at a Startup. Just Ask Zenefits — The HR software company missed projections in 2015 and faces even harder-to-reach goals in the years ahead.
Tweets: @roddrury
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Encrypted messaging service Ricochet, which uses Tor hidden services to avoid storing metadata, passes security audit by NCC Group — ‘Ricochet’, the Messenger That Beats Metadata, Passes Security Audit — Although users are now saturated with options on mobile and desktop for encrypted messaging …
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