First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO
First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online — Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.
Stack Overflow user survey: 92% male, 41.8% self-taught, 54.5% use Javascript, 32.4% are full-stack web developers, 9.1% mobile developers
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 — Every year we run a survey. This year, more developers answered more questions than ever before.
Flir FX is a home security camera that also acts as an action camera and a car dash cam
The Flir FX is a security camera with bigger ambitions — Anyone who grew up in the 1980s probably knows of Bo Jackson. Unlike most professional athletes, Jackson played both baseball and football, ...
Social intelligence service DataSift says its Twitter firehose access expires August, bemoans impact on its customers and their customers, touts Facebook access
Twitter Ends its Partnership with DataSift - Firehose Access Expires on August 13, 2015 — For several months now …
Inside the battle over crypto backdoors as the White House prepares report for President Obama
As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security — For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue …
HBO Now streaming service faces first major stress test with Sunday's Game of Thrones premiere
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Yahoo leadership reorganization: Simon Khalaf promoted to SVP to oversee Tumblr and home page, David Karp no longer reports to Mayer, Adam Cahan runs video
Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, announced a major reorganization …
OS X 10.10.3 includes patch for critical backdoor flaw in admin framework, which is unlikely to be ported to earlier OS X versions
Apple Patches Critical Backdoor Flaw in OS X 10.10.3 — For months, Apple has been previewing the new Photos App, which has now officially landed …
Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business
Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business — In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …
Mini-review of Hisense's $149 ARM Chromebook: well-made for price, but screen is mediocre, short battery life compared to Intel Chromebooks
Mini-review: Hisense's ARM Chromebook actually isn't awful for $149 — The laptop doesn't cut corners that $199 Chromebooks aren't already cutting.
Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class
Roku 3 (2015) review: A fresh voice improves the best search in streaming — Competing against Apple, Amazon and Google isn't easy. Just ask Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and Yahoo.
Google joins Via Licensing's LTE patent pool which also includes HP, AT&T, and other telecom companies as members
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Advocacy group Privacy International creates fake companies to gain access to surveillance industry trade shows and expose the industry's surveillance powers
Meet the privacy activists who spy on the surveillance industry — LONDON- On the second floor of a narrow brick building …
Amazon will stream movies and TV shows in vivid HDR later this year
Chris Welch / The Verge :
BQ Aquaris E4.5, First Commercially Available Ubuntu Phone, Lands In Europe For 170 Euro
Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware Guide :
Nokia considers sale of HERE maps business, worth about $2.1B, to focus on networks division
Bloomberg Business :
As Flash usage wanes, Internet archivists struggle to preserve Flash websites
Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool — Navigating awful, 100 percent Flash-based sites is an experience many of us have had, and is unequivocally part of internet can...
Bitglass security researchers demonstrate how stolen personal data can traverse the Dark Web
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
SendGrid Account Breach Was Used to Attack Coinbase, a Bitcoin Exchange
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times :
Profile of Lynda Weinman, co-founder of e-learning site Lynda.com, which was recently acquired by LinkedIn
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @peterlattman and @scottmaustin Tweets: Peter Lattman / @peterlattman : Great look at 60-yr-old web design pioneer Lynda Weinman, who sold her company to LinkedIn for $1...
Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Critical Reviews From Google Maps
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Symantec exploring a sale of its Veritas data-storage and recovery business, could fetch more than $8B
Wall Street Journal :
Instacart Is Quietly Working With Third Parties To Outsource (Some Of) Its Deliveries
@instacart reportedly outsourcing some deliveries. More value in other parts of the on-demand stack? http://techcrunch.com/...
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.