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Second “celebgate” hacker pleads guilty to phishing 300+ Gmail and iCloud accounts, faces 5 years; neither hacker was charged with distributing stolen content — A hacker has pleaded guilty for his role in the “Celebgate” breach of 2014. Edward Majerczyk faces up to five years … | Choi Chi-yuk / South China Morning Post: |
China's internet censor says online media cannot gather news from social media without approval or publish news without verification — Cyberspace Administration's move comes days after Xu Lin, formerly deputy head of the body, takes on top role — China's powerful internet censorship body …
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Amazon's urban “Biosphere” buildings on track to open in 2018 as the company heads toward controlling 15% of Seattle's office space — Walk down Seventh Avenue in downtown Seattle and you can't miss them: three gigantic spheres resembling melted-together Milk Duds rising …
Tweets: @mercenaryjack, @abrkn, @iseff, @gokartlabs and @technology
| Dave Neal / v3.co.uk: |
Researchers find Chinese ad firm has infected 85M Android devices with malware, generating $300K a month in fraudulent ad revenue — China crisis for Android users — An Android-based malware campaign masterminded from China has snared as many as 85 million Android devices and is making …
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Check Point Blog, Motherboard, SiliconANGLE, IT-Online and Infosecurity Magazine. Tweets: @josephfcox
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FCC auction sets $86.4B price for TV spectrum, exceeding estimates and raising concerns that wireless providers may balk at the cost, extending auction's length — FCC releases payment pledge to TV station owners in auction — Airwaves sale now turns to bids from wireless companies
| Jason Shueh / Government Technology News: |
Gov IT vendors air grievances to Congress about White House's 18F and USDS over opacity, recommend pausing 18F's integration into new gov modernization efforts — Tech lobbying groups are looking for more transparency from 18F, the group working to increase competition and decrease the costs of high-profile tech projects.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
comScore: 38% of US smartphone users ages 25 to 34 are on Snapchat, 14% for those 35 and older, versus 5% and 2% respectively three years ago — An estimated 14% of U.S. smartphone users 35 or older are on messaging app — Paris Zeikos says he noticed a surprising trend on Snapchat.
Tweets: @alexanderpeh
| Bozhidar Bozhanov: |
Bulgaria passes law requiring all custom software written for government to be open-source — Less than two years after my presentation titled “Open source for the government”, and almost exactly one year after I became advisor to the deputy prime minister of Bulgaria … | BBC: |
IAC sells Q&A-based social network Ask.fm to asset management firm Noosphere — The Q&A-based social network Ask.fm is under new ownership, less than two years after it last changed hands. — IAC - the owner of the dating app Tinder - has sold the business to Noosphere, an asset management firm that specialises in tech.| Adam Westlake / SlashGear: |
Google adds built-in Cast option to Chrome 51 for desktop — One of the most handy features of Google's Cast television dongle is how easy it is to broadcast your Chrome browser tab onto a bigger screen. That is, as long as you have the browser extension installed.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher uses exploits to extract disk encryption keys from Android devices with Qualcomm chips; publicly-available attack code works on unpatched devices — Unlike Apple's iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques. — Privacy advocates take note …
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Network World, SecurityWeek, BGR, Engadget, Wired, ZDNet, Neowin, The Register, AndroidHeadlines.com, The Hill, Digital Journal, SC Magazine UK, Bits, Please!, Softpedia News, The Register, SlashGear, Tech Times and AppleInsider
Tweets: @gmillard, @doyouqa, @janole, @fsecure, @lowellheddings and @arstechnica
| Zack Bloom / Eager: |
How CSS originated out of the early-90s browser wars and several competing stylesheet language proposals — When HTML was announced by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How given HTML tags were rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user's preferences.
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