NYT Editorial Board: NSA's “back doors and special access routes are a terrible idea”
Close the N.S.A.'s Back Doors — In 2006, a federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, helped build an international encryption system to help countries and industries fend o...
Why You Need To Pay Attention To General Solicitation
On Monday, the legal framework for startup fundraising will change. Because of the JOBS Act, you will be able to publicly announce that you're raising. This is not crowdfunding — you still have to r...
Setting the Record Straight on False Accusations
As you may have read recently, a class action lawsuit was filed against LinkedIn last week. The lawsuit alleges that we “break into” the email accounts of our members who choose to upload their email...
PayPal Nears Deal for Braintree Payments
EBay's PayPal is near a deal to buy Braintree Payments Solutions, according to people familiar with the discussions, potentially thrusting the online payments pioneer into the center of the burgeoning...
Apple TV 6.0 update pulled after reports of bricking and networking issues
Devices on Apple TV 5.3 are now “up to date” (thanks, @iPadMatt!) — After Apple TV 6.0 was released on Friday with iTunes Radio and other enhancements, there were many reports of botched updates tha...
FAA likely to relax rules on electronic devices effective sometime next year
F.A.A. Nears New Rules on Devices — The rules on when to turn off electronic devices on airplanes have long been a sour, and sometimes contentious, point for travelers. But faced with a surge of el...
Police in New York Really Want You to Download iOS 7
The New York Police Department has more of a relationship with Apple's iPhone than merely performing crowd control at and around Apple stores on iPhone launch days like yesterday. — A new iPhone mod...
Update to Gawker's Kinja platform allows readers to summarize and discuss anything on the web
Disruptions: Gawker Wants to Encourage More Voices Online, but With Less Yelling — There are corners of the Internet that contain some of the most slimy and vitriolic stuff you could imagine …
An overview of Bing's “Page Zero” results, which appear even before you finish typing
Page Zero: A Deep Dive — At Bing, our central mission is to help you spend less time searching and more time getting things done. To that end, we are in a constant state …
A look at Mass Relevance, a startup TV networks rely on to surface pithy tweets
The secret company behind Twitter's TV takeover — Mass Relevance puts Twitter in front of television audiences, boosting the social network's public profile and altering its perception as a place fo...