Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts
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Apple Launches Quality Program for MacBook Pro Anti-Reflective Coating Issues
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Jacqueline Reses, chief development officer at Yahoo, leaving to join Square
Yahoo Executive Reses Said to Leave Company to Join Square — Reses recently shifted role to focus on Alibaba spinoff — CEO Mayer hired Reses in 2012 to lead corporate development
New York Times story on Amazon left out critical information, including that one named source resigned after internal investigation revealed fraud
What The New York Times Didn't Tell You — “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: true flagships with little-to-no compromise, all other Android devices are second class citizens
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: The true flagships of the Android ecosystem — With little-to-no compromise, these are now the smartphones to beat.
Researchers find 256 iOS apps using a third-party advertising SDK to collect users' personal info; Apple says it will ban them
Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users' personal info — Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says.
Yahoo's Marketing Partnership SVP Lisa Licht Also Departs
According to sources, besides development chief Jackie Reses, Yahoo also lost its SVP of marketing partnerships and platforms Lisa Licht last week. — Licht, who came to the Silicon Valley Internet g...
Xiaomi launches Android-powered Mi TV 3 with 60-inch 4K display for less than $800
Xiaomi, on Monday, unveiled the Mi TV 3, a 60-inch TV with 4K display at a price point of RMB 4,999 ($780). Much like the Mi TV 2 and previous generation television sets from the company …
Eric Schmidt talks running Google, scaling fast, managing chaos, hiring, Alphabet, more
CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt — Eric Emerson Schmidt was born in Washington, D.C. and spent his youth in its Northern Virginia suburbs. He was one of... en.wikipedia.org
Amazon PR chief publishes information about employment records of former employees in rebuke of New York Times piece
Jason Del Rey / Re/code : Tweets: @mikeisaac and @delrey Tweets: @mikeisaac : @DelRey is that even legal? i guess the legal team would have had to vet this. still, yeesh. Jason Del Rey / @delrey : Am...
Flipboard opens up its interest graph to let brands target ads by topics
Flipboard is further integrating technology from its acquisition of Zite and it's aimed at advertisers. Today the publishing platform company has opened up its data to enable marketers to better targ...
Microsemi Offers to Buy PMC-Sierra in $2.4 Billion Deal
Chad Bray / New York Times :
As Cubans come online for the first time, a look at foreign companies' efforts affecting connectivity, censorship policies, and the net's early impact
Havana's Hotspots — A midnight rain fell through the oak trees of Vedado, a neighborhood in Havana, onto the heads of a dozen people gathered outside a small hotel. Tweets: @vocommunism Tweets: Vict...
Sources: last year's cyberattacks on Polish stock exchange and German steel plant were tied to Russia's growing hacking campaign against US and NATO
Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia's Clash With NATO — German steel plant and Polish exchange said to be targeted Tweets: @andrew_s_bowen , @maxseddon , @alantonelson , @scottthurm and @ridt ...
LG Gram 14" review: good display, most portable laptop for its size, but awful battery life, flimsy build, no backlit keyboard, and screen wobbles as you type
Vlad Savov / The Verge : Tweets: @lachlikesathing Tweets: Lachlan / @lachlikesathing : “LG's industrial design is characterized by a great deal of effort and very little effect.” Ouch. http://www.the...
Law enforcement requesting suspects' DNA data from databases of Ancestry and 23andMe
Kashmir Hill / Fusion :
New pilot program opens up federal student loans to select coding boot camps and MOOCs
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed :
As it expands globally, Netflix faces increasing competition and demand for local-language programming
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Dell Chromebook 13 review: at $429, more expensive than most other Chromebooks, but great design, performance, and battery life make it worth it
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget :
On Carlota Perez's theory of technological revolutions, and what it could mean for the tech industry over the next ten years
Jerry Neumann / Reaction Wheel : Tweets: @semil and @cdixon Tweets: @semil : Great post on tech in the “deployment phase,” the ultimate network effect: http://reactionwheel.net/... (one basis for USV...
Sources: Stanford and Michael Bloomberg invest combined $100K in each startup that goes through Y Combinator as part of new seed funding terms
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @msquinn Tweets: Megan Quinn / @msquinn : Reading across posts: YC investment of $17k (pre2014), $120k (2014), $20k (today) nets ~7% of every co? Gen...
Twitter's decision to hide links in Moments is the latest sign that social giants want to be destinations, not portals to publishers' sites
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ralphrivera Tweets: Ralph Rivera / @ralphrivera : Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes Facebook and Twitter http://techcrunch.com...
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