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Three years later, Facebook is bringing back its F8 developer conference to San Francisco on April 30 — At SXSW today, Parse co-founder and CEO Ilya Sukhar announced Facebook's F8 conference will be held this year on April 30 at the San Francisco Design Concourse.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Lyft Funding Official: Documents Filed for New $150 Million Round — Lyft, the ride-sharing app that is locked in an expensive competition with rival Uber, is at least part of the way to its next round of funding. — The company filed a document associated with a Series D round worth $150 million …
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AT&T Cuts Cost for Some Single-Line and Two-Line Plans — After cutting the cost of some family plans earlier this year, AT&T is providing lower-price options for customers with just one or two cellphone lines. — AT&T said Saturday it will now offer customers with one or two lines …
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Aereo's internet TV service in Denver and Salt Lake City shuts down today — Aereo's streams in Denver and Salt Lake City hung on for a while after the US District Court of Utah granted its opponents a preliminary injunction on February 20th, but today they're shutting off.| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Next week Medium is launching an iPhone app for reading but not writing posts — With Medium, Evan Williams Is Tackling the Future of Writing Online — As a founder of both Blogger and Twitter, Evan Williams helped change the way people write online. Now, with his latest start-up … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
HTTPS attack analyzes subtle differences in encrypted traffic to identify pages viewed — New attack on HTTPS crypto might reveal if you're pregnant or have cancer — As the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, HTTPS encryption has seen its share of attacks … | Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
SXSWi gets an international slant with presence from more countries and global-facing panels — Foreign Influx Gives Annual Tech Event an International Flavor — Going to the South by Southwest technology, music and film festival has long been about discovering the next big thing.
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Mozilla stops development of authentication system Persona, transfers project to community — Mozilla makes authentication system Persona Community Project — When Mozilla launched Persona under the name BrowserID back in 2012, it had big plans for the authentication service.
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Based on inconclusive evidence, Newsweek's Dorian Nakamoto story is theory, not fact — The Satoshi Paradox — Newsweek wanted a scoop for its relaunch cover story, and boy did it deliver: it uncovered the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin. Who then promptly came out and denied everything.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Austin Police Department Warns SXSW Attendees Not To Use Uber — Here's something you might not have noticed if you were partying it up at SXSW and using Uber to get around: Uber is not legal in Austin, and the police department wants you to know that. — In a post on the Austin government page … | Brian Fung / The Switch: |
Microsoft is using your data to target political ads on Xbox Live — Microsoft is trying to persuade politicians to take out targeted ads on Xbox Live, Skype, MSN and other company platforms as midterm elections begin heating up around the country. To plug the idea, Microsoft officials handed …
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| Caitlin McGarry / TechHive: |
SXSW starts out with spotlight on security, as Google's Schmidt sounds off on NSA — AUSTIN—Austin, Texas is in full-on party mode as South by Southwest kicks off Friday, but the normally lighthearted Interactive portion of the festival—best known for turning Twitter and Foursquare into stars …
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