GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies
Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a...
Frustrated by popular fast following rip-offs like 2048, creators of Threes tout advantages of their 14-month development process
The Rip-offs & Making Our Original Game — It's been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny.
Sequoia Capital profiled as a feisty, decisive, luxury-eschewing band of outsiders
Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory — When Doug Leone arrived in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in 1968, the 11-year-old Italian immigrant didn't have a clue.
BBM Now At 85M Monthly Active Users, 113M Registered Users, 500,000 Channels
The BlackBerry that's in the process of reinventing itself is an increasingly cross-platform creature — retrenching to serving its enterprise core by seeking to help them manage the bring-your-own-dev...
Google claims Turkey intercepts their DNS
Summary: Apparently in order to enforce a government ban on certain services, Turkish ISPs are intercepting access of Google's public DNS service. — Google is claiming that ISPs in Turkey are interc...
Facebook designer defends scaled-back News Feed redesign, noting low-res monitors are too common for big photos
Whatever's Best For The People, That's What We Do — Earlier today, Dustin Curtis wrote a post about the recent Facebook desktop redesign.
Paul Graham steps away from Hacker News, handing control to five Y Combinator staffers
Meet the People Taking over Hacker News — I did several different things while I was working on Hacker News, and these will now be taken over by different people. — Kevin Hale (HN id kevin) will b...
BeHere app uses iBeacons to automatically take attendance as students enter the classroom
A new app called BeHere aimed at teachers uses Apple's new Bluetooth LE iBeacon technology to recognize students and automatically take attendance as they enter a classroom.
Drones vs. balloons: Zuckerberg explains why wings are better for the internet than helium
When Facebook and Internet.org revealed their intentions on Thursday to connect the developing world through aerial drones and satellites, the plans drew the inevitable comparisons to Google's Project...
Google researchers: 21 of world's top 25 news orgs targeted by hackers, likely state-sponsored
Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers — (Reuters) - Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks …
Cable's Next Big Threat: Loss of Ad Dollars To YouTube, AOL
It turns out that cord-cutting isn't the only threat facing cable channels. — Several of the big ad-supported online video outlets, including Google's YouTube, AOL and others, plan this upfront seas...