Obama to propose federal legislation that would protect student privacy, require that companies disclose breaches that involve consumer data
Obama to Call for Laws Covering Data Hacking and Student Privacy — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will call for federal legislation intended …
Samsung announces 5.5-inch metal unibody Galaxy A7 with 8-core Exynos or Snapdragon CPUs, 13MP camera, dual-sim option
Samsung Packs An 8-Core Processor Into Its New 5.5-Inch Galaxy A7 Smartphone — Last year Samsung released an eight-core version of the Galaxy S5 …
Google stops providing security patches for pre-KitKat WebView, leaves 930M users vulnerable
Google No Longer Provides Patches for WebView Jelly Bean and Prior — Over the past year, independent researcher Rafay Baloch (of “Rafay's Hacking Articles") and Rapid7's Joe Vennix …
Following Microsoft's new Skype Translator, Google to announce major update to Translate app, add automatic transcription for popular languages
Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promise — The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel.
Pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones leaves The New Yorker to join Genius as an executive editor focusing on annotation of lyrics
Pop Music Critic Leaves The New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Start-Up — Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker …
Chilling Effects, a site tracking DMCA removal requests, pulls its copyright removal notice pages from search engines
Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself — On an average day Google now processes more than a million takedown requests from copyright holders, and that's for its search engine alone.
Microsoft will preview Windows 10 for phones, release beta version later this month
Microsoft prepares to preview Windows 10 for phones — Beta version expected by end of the month — Microsoft is preparing to preview its latest version of Windows Phone later this month.
Instagram fixes privacy hole that exposed private photos posted from a public profile later changed to private
Your private Instagrams weren't as private as you thought they were — A privacy hole was publicly exposing an untold number of photographs Instagram users believed were private …
EU ministers propose coordinating with ISPs to monitor and report content that incites terror
EU response to free speech killings? More internet censorship — Papers with ‘I am Charlie’ displayed are left near candles at a vigil in front of the French Embassy following the terrorist attack …
Apple suppliers TSMC, Foxconn announce record December revenues as iPhone sales soar
The iPhone's strong holiday sales helped two of Apple's biggest supply chain partners — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Hon Hai Precision Industry — post record monthly revenues in December...
Exclusive: Facebook, Xiaomi discussed possible investment in the Chinese smartphone maker - sources
(Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg and Xiaomi Inc CEO Lei Jun discussed a potential investment by Facebook in China's top smartphone maker ahead of its $1.1 billion fundraising last month …
Capital One Acquires Budgeting App Level Money
Capital One has acquired San Francisco-based money management app, Level Money, the companies are announcing this morning. The app, which is focused on allowing consumers to keep track of their spend...
Spotify now has 60M users, 15M of whom are paying subscribers
We had an amazing 2014 at Spotify and owe … Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Spotify Now Has 15M Paying Users, 60M Overall Active Subscribers Victor Luckerson / TIME : Spotify Now Has 60 Million Users Zac...
Another leap second will arrive in June, threatening the stability of UNIX and Linux systems
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Cable lobby says Google Fiber doesn't need Title II to get pole access
The top cable lobby group says Google is blowing smoke when it comes to Title II and pole attachment rights. — Google told the Federal Communications Commission that reclassifying broadband provider...
Microsoft chastises Google for disclosing Windows 8.1 security hole prior to patch
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GameStop eludes Blockbuster's fate for now by selling physical vouchers for DLC, maintaining fat margins on used games
Joshua Brustein / Businessweek :
Founder of Grouper, now Crackle, tells the story of the company from founding to sale to Sony
Josh Felser / Re/code : Tweets: @joshmedia Tweets: Josh Felser / @joshmedia : In my 1st ever guest post, thx to @pkafka, hope you will enjoy reading the story of @Crackle, where I was cofounder http:...
Hands-on with Naenara Browser, North Korea's bizarre Firefox variant for its official Red Star OS
Robert Hansen / WhiteHat Security Blog :
For Dave McClure's New 500 Startups Fund, U.S. Institutions Shy Away
,” says @davemcclure http://blogs.wsj.com/...
Leaked Palantir document reveals uses and key clients, including several government agencies
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Flywheel, Asia's GrabTaxi, and India's OlaCabs consider taxi alliance to compete with Uber
Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @semil . Thanks: @mat Tweets: @semil : Uber could be so big, global ridesharing apps ponder an alliance: http://www.buzzfeed.com/... (h/t @JDcarlu - Reminds me of ...
With a broad range of products united by software, Xiaomi sells an ecosystem, not just phones
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Source: neither Twitter nor its board have considered replacing Costolo, despite rumors that Adam Bain may become CEO
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch : Tweets: @pmarca Tweets: Marc Andreessen / @pmarca : “Dick Costolo can come to Aol, Tim Armstrong can go to Yahoo, and Marissa Mayer can go to Twitter.” Yep. http://techc...
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