Sources: Jawbone has stopped making UP fitness trackers, sold the remaining inventory to a reseller at a discount to raise cash
Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.
Nick Denton challenges Peter Thiel to a public debate in open letter, says decade-long campaign by Thiel is out of proportion, asks about ultimate intent
Nick Denton / Gawker :
Investigation into SWIFT breach expands to 12 more banks; Symantec corroborates BAE's report that hackers used code similar to North Korean Sony hack
Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack. — The investigation into the attempted $1 billion electronic heist …
Sources: the Feinstein-Burr encryption bill has lost support in Congress, likely won't be introduced this year
After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a “back door” …
Sources: Jawbone is trying to sell its wireless speaker business, will focus on health and wearables
Fitness tracker maker Jawbone has put its speaker business up for sale, according to multiple sources. — The company has been pitching potential buyers for its Jambox wireless speaker business …
FBI raids home of security researcher who discovered unencrypted sensitive health data of 22K dental patients on an unsecured public FTP server
Someone alerts you to exposed, unencrypted patient information on your FTP server. Is the correct response to thank them profusely or try to have them charged as a criminal hacker?
Researchers report vulnerabilities in Ethereum-based “VC fund” The DAO, letting attackers freeze or steal cryptocurrency
A group of computer scientists released a paper on Friday describing a number of security vulnerabilities in a novel cryptocurrency crowdfunding project that has raised more than $100 million.
Some Silicon Valley luminaries, including Vinod Khosla and Jessica Livingston, express approval for Peter Thiel's tactics against Gawker
SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley's stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response …
Pew: 62% of US adults get news on social media; 66% of Facebook, 23% of Instagram, 21% of YouTube, 19% of LinkedIn users get news there
A majority of U.S. adults - 62% - get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center …
ZTE plans to open 20 flagship stores in China and one each in Germany, Russia, and Mexico to drive sales of its smartphones and other consumer devices
ZTE Corp., China's second-largest maker of networking gear, plans to open 23 flagship stores by the end of this year to drive sales of its smartphones and consumer devices.
Musical.ly, with 10M DAUs and 70M registered users, is adding a streaming service called live.ly, is rumored to be raising $100M
Unless you live with a teenager, you've probably never heard of Musical.ly. — If you do, then you've probably already appeared in one of your kid's music videos.
Sources: Xbox compatible VR game slated for 2017 launch by a well-known European studio
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica :
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords
MySpace was hacked. LeakedSource has obtained … AJ Dellinger / The Daily Dot : MySpace may have been hacked and never told its users about it Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Million ...
Google app on iOS gets faster load times, AMP articles in search, keyboard shortcuts, more
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Sen. Wyden: this year's annual intelligence authorization, just passed in Senate committee and not yet public, allows FBI warrantless access to email records
The Intercept :
Facebook plans to officially kill its video ad exchange LiveRail
Kurt Wagner / Recode :
French finance minister rules out Google tax deal, more firms could be targeted
France will “go all the way” to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Mi...
Reddit partners with VigLink to rewrite links to merchants on Reddit into affiliate links starting June 3
Reddit is launching a new way to make money. — Starting on June 3, the site is going to use a popular strategy called affiliate linking to get a small cut of purchases that happen …
ZTE launches 5.5-inch Google Daydream-ready Axon 7 for $450 alongside its first VR headset
Evan Blass / VentureBeat :
Google-Oracle verdict: good in that it allows for the re-implementation of APIs in different software, but fair-use was the wrong judicial vehicle
Mike Masnick / Techdirt :
Genius' web annotator tool exposed sites on genius.it to XSS attacks by ignoring CSP policy
Vijith Assar / The Verge :
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