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Matthew Keys sentenced to 24 months under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for his role in 2010 LA Times hack, must surrender to custody June 15, plans appeal — Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced to Two Years for Hacking — This story has been updated throughout with further information from the sentencing.
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Facebook hires Regina Dugan, head of Google's ATAP and former DARPA chief, to lead new Building 8 R&D group that has budget of hundreds of millions of dollars — Google's ATAP Head Regina Dugan Joins Facebook To Start DARPA-Inspired Team — Regina Dugan, the high profile former head of DARPA …
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GoPro poaches top Apple designer Daniel Coster to be VP of design; GoPro shares jump over 18% — GoPro Poached a Top Apple Designer and Shares Are Soaring — Shares of GoPro gpro popped nearly 16% in afternoon trading Wednesday after a report said the troubled camera maker had poached a member of Apple's aapl elite design group.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Android N Developer Preview 2 with new 3D rendering API, launcher shortcuts, and Emoji Unicode 9 — Google today launched the second release of the Android N developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Tony Fadell defends Nest in all-hands meeting after bad press, reports no slowdown in sales growth, claims culture is improving, adds that no company is perfect — Nest CEO Tony Fadell went to Google's all-hands meeting to defend Nest. Here's what he said.| Neeraj Choubey / Facebook Code: |
Facebook announces new terrestrial connectivity systems, Terragraph and Project ARIES, to bring Internet to underserved urban and rural areas, respectively — Introducing Facebook's new terrestrial connectivity systems — Terragraph and Project ARIES — Facebook believes that people …
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Facebook demos personalised avatars for Oculus users based on a 3D scan, VR selfies taken while “visiting” a 360 degree photo — Oculus demos a VR selfie stick — Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly, look like yourself, and even take a photo while you're there, and today it demoed how at F8.| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Stewart Butterfield says Slack is working on threaded messages, hopes to update service with the feature by next quarter — Mossberg: Slack beats email, but still needs to get better — Not long ago, discussions of the modern workplace were colored by complaints about the tyranny of email.
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Cruise founder Kyle Vogt files complaint in Superior Court against early collaborator making ownership claim ahead of $1B GM sale — Legal battle erupts over $1B Cruise Automation sale to General Motors — There is apparently a dark cloud hovering around the jackpot $1 billion sale of Cruise Automation to General Motors last month.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Obama appoints former NSA director Keith Alexander, Uber CSO, MasterCard CEO, and Corporate VP of Microsoft Research to cybersecurity panel — Obama appoints execs from MasterCard, Uber, and Microsoft to cybersecurity panel — The White House today released a list of names President Barack Obama …
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Microsoft, Samsung commit to supporting Facebook's React Native app development framework for Windows 10 and Tizen platforms, respectively — Facebook's React Native gets backing from Microsoft and Samsung — React Native was originally developed by Facebook to allow its developers to take React …
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Amazon announces $290 Kindle Oasis, its thinnest Kindle to date, which comes with leather case that extends battery life; pre-orders open today, ships April 27 — Amazon's Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it's ever made — Amazon's philosophy with the Kindle line has been consistent …
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