Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, dies at 74 from suspected heart attack
Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson dead at 74 — Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson. — Raymond Tomlinson, the godfather of email, died Saturday morning of a suspected heart attack. He was 74.
Apple SVP Craig Federighi: FBI wants to roll back safeguards that serve as a “critical line of defense against criminals”
Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us a step ahead of criminals — Craig Federighi is senior vice president of software engineering at Apple.
First known ransomware for Mac users arrives via infected Transmission BitTorrent client; Apple revokes developer certificate that enabled infected installs
Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend …
Apple loses Supreme Court appeal in ebook price-fixing case, must pay $450M
Apple Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in $450 Million E-Book Case — Apple Inc. must pay $450 million to end an antitrust suit after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a finding that the compa...
Uber, responding to customer service leak, says it received five rape claims and fewer than 170 sexual assault claims from December 2012 to August 2015
Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints — BuzzFeed News obtains internal data on rapes and sexual assaults lodged …
Sources: Commerce Department to place export restrictions on ZTE due to Iran sanctions violations, making it difficult for the firm to buy products from US
U.S. Commerce Department to place restrictions on China's ZTE — The U.S. Commerce Department is set to place export restrictions …
Experts: FBI could crack terrorist's iPhone without Apple's help, but wants to set a legal precedent that would give them access to phone data with a warrant
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How mutual funds value unicorns they invest in and what the recent write-downs mean
Unicorns Aren't So Beloved Anymore — The way a bubble works is, people get enthusiastic about a thing, so they buy a lot of it, and its price goes up. Then people realize the price is too high …
Roofstock, an online marketplace for buying and selling already leased single-tenant homes, raises $13.25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures
This Startup Wants to Help You Become an Absentee Landlord — There are a lot of startups that operate using the same fundamental principle …
BlackRock, Fidelity, T. Rowe, and Wellington funds own stakes in at least 40 unicorns, 13 of them now valued 28% below the original purchase price on average
Mutual Funds Sour on Startup Investments — Fidelity, BlackRock and other giants cut value of their stakes at faster pace, make fewer new investments
Spotify's new Fresh Finds playlists leverage hundreds of music blogs and review sites it crawls and its own early adopter users
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Mozilla tests the waters for Firefox OS IoT apps, including a Samantha-style virtual assistant
Back in December, Mozilla called it a day with its failed Firefox OS for mobile business, and said it would pivot the technology into a new Internet of Things strategy.
Medium plans publisher monetization within a month, considers paywalls and premium content
Popular long-form blogging platform Medium has given the biggest hint yet as to how and when it will let publishers monetize their content. — Medium founder Evan Williams — who also cofounded Twitte...
Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35M fine to settle US privacy probe for not disclosing its use of “supercookies” to users between 2012 and 2014
Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35 million fine to settle U.S. privacy probe — Verizon Communications Inc will pay a $1.35 million fine …
Facebook pulls plans to build a demand-side platform into its ad serving and measurement platform Atlas because of too many bots and bad quality ads in testing
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Anonymous former Weibo censor discusses off limit topics, sensitive words, and methodology
Yaqiu Wang / Committee to Protect Journalists : Tweets: @nktpnd Tweets: Ankit Panda / @nktpnd : “The Communist Party was terrified by Weibo, staring at it with fear and the determination to tame it” ...
China is building software to collate data on citizens' jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and more to predict terrorist acts
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Coinbase CEO: Core team is a systemic risk that can lead to Bitcoin collapse this year; switch to Bitcoin Classic now, then look for more scalable solutions
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Delivery Hero to exit China amid huge competition; 400 jobs affected
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
DARPA's upcoming $2M Cyber Grand Challenge wants teams to build AI-based hacking software that can exploit rival teams' vulnerabilities while fixing their own
Olivia Solon / Guardian :
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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 …
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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.