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How Ladar Levison and a convicted hacker aim to encrypt emails, including to and from fields, with Dark Mail — A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying — The internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying.
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Sequoia Capital will likely earn more from investing in YC companies than YC — The Big Winner from Y Combinator's Success? Sequoia Capital — Yesterday, Y Combinator's president, Sam Altman, that the seed investment firm had funded 716 companies that were currently valued collectively at around $30 billion.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New search engine indexes records from data breaches, mostly from sites young hackers frequent — Even Script Kids Have a Right to Be Forgotten — Indexeus, a new search engine that indexes user account information acquired from more than 100 recent data breaches, has caught many in the hacker underground off-guard.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Edward Snowden Plans to Work on Privacy Tech — NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he plans to work on technology to preserve personal data privacy and called on programmers to join his efforts. — Speaking via a Google Hangout at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in New York …
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Report: Nvidia Shield Tablet ships July 29 in the US; $299 for 16GB Wi-Fi-only, $399 for 32GB with LTE, $59 for separate controller — NVIDIA extends SHIELD family with SHIELD tablet and wireless controller — Let's talk about SHIELD. — I'm a huge fan of SHIELD, it's such an amazing tv show.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
How a small team inside Google built Stories, a tool that organizes photos into narratives — How to Teach Google What a Story Is — Google wanted to solve a problem we can all understand. People take so, so many photographs and yet they actually do very little with them.| Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: |
Buzzfeed now receives more traffic from Pinterest than from Twitter — Nailed It: Buzzfeed Cracks The Pinterest Code — Buzzfeed is one of of the fastest growing media companies ever, with a monthly audience of 150 million and counting, thanks chiefly to its unmatched understanding of what people will read or share on Facebook.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Even after denial, Bloomberg says Jay Carney in the running for Apple PR head — Last week, Re/code reported that former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has been “bandied about” in connection to filling Katie Cotton's role as Apple's Corporate Communications and PR chief:
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Sites like Travelocity pass full plaintext credit card numbers and IP addresses to DHS, which retains them for years — Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers — FOIA request turns up 9 years of records, including plaintext credit card numbers.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Kindle Unlimited: worth it if you buy 12+ books/year and find the limited catalogue appealing — Is Kindle Unlimited worth it? — Some things to think about before you sign up for Amazon's latest service. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) — Amazon.com introduced a new subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, on Friday.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay says unique visitors doubled since 2011 despite blockades in several countries — Pirate Bay Traffic Doubles Despite ISP Blockades — The Pirate Bay is without doubt one of the most censored websites on the Internet. — Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers …
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| Frank Konkel / GovExec.com: |
How the CIA's $600M deal with Amazon Web Services will enable 17 federal agencies to cooperate — How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence — National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia Trevor Paglen — The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest.
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