The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone
The U.S. National Security Agency has the ability to snoop on nearly every communication sent from an Apple iPhone, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Germ...
YC's Paul Graham: The Complete Interview
Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham isn't your typical startup guru. For eight years he's been at the helm of what's now the industry's most prominent accelerator and a lightning rod for frustrations...
Netflix Knocks a Dollar Off Its SD Streaming Service for New Users
Netflix has cracked down on password sharing this year (the streaming service has a $12-per-month plan if you want to stream on four devices simultaneously), but it looks like there's a new tier to it...
Nokia wins German patent injunction against all HTC Android devices including the One series
The New Year's Eve fireworks kicked off a day early at the Munich I Regional Court, where Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann just handed Nokia a Germany-wide patent injunction against all HTC Android devices …
I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass
An anecdote: I wanted to wear Google Glass during the birth of our second child. My wife was extremely unreceptive to this idea when I suggested it. Angry, even. But as we got a bit closer to the d...
BlackBerry CEO: we're focused on enterprise services, messaging, growing QNX adoption
BlackBerry CEO: Here's our new strategy — By: John Chen, executive chair and CEO of BlackBerry — It's been easy for competitors to promote negative stories about BlackBerry, focusing on the busine...
73% Of U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top
Facebook may be currently facing question marks over how well it's faring with younger users, but among those over 18 in the U.S. it remains the social network king.
Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy
Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture. The company's Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantul...
The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away
Attendees at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this weekend got a surprising rundown of the NSA's surveillance capabilities, courtesy of security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum, who...
Vulnerabilities in SD cards allow arbitrary code execution, opening door to MITM attacks
On Hacking MicroSD Cards — Today at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory ...
The man behind NYT Magazine's gorgeous covers is headed to Apple
You may not know the name Arem Duplessis, but you've no doubt seen his work on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in the past 10 years. As design director at NYT Mag, he crafted some of the mos...
Eric Schmidt makes 2014 predictions, says mobile has won
While he's not busy writing instructions on how to lead a tech company or guides for switching from iPhone to Android, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has taken some time out to provide Bloomberg TV with...
Google exec Steve Grove says Google+ could become the YouTube of live video
Steve Grove: Google+ could do for live video, what YouTube did for recorded video — With over three years in the Google+ team, and heading its community partner scheme, Steve Grove's role is to make...
Apple Feud Deepens With Court-Appointed Monitor
A feud between Apple Inc. and a lawyer appointed by a federal court judge to monitor the company's e-book pricing reform became even more acrimonious Monday. — Michael Bromwich, the lawyer picked as...
How Worried Should We Be About the Alleged RSA-NSA Scheming?
A Reuters news story published a week ago raised disturbing questions about the relationship between the NSA and RSA Security (now a division of EMC), a prominent vendor of cryptographic technologies.