Topping 150M Users, Instagram Promises Ads Within The Next Year

“Instagram Director of Business Operations Emily White told the Wall Street Journal that Instagram will begin selling ads within the next year. Are users ready?”

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Galaxy Note 3 Will Debut New Radio Power Management System, Uses 20% Less Power And 30% Less Heat Than Existing Tech

“A great thing about new flagship phones is that they usually come packed to the brim with new technologies we can get excited about. The Galaxy Note 3, announced a few days ago, is no exception.”

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NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry

“Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data.”

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California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates

“Do you worry that the widespread use of plate-scanning cameras might be used in ways that violate your privacy ? Now you can ratchet your worry level up a bit: Ars Technica reports that “This week, the California State Senate approved a bill that would create the nation’s first electronic license”

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Most Tor Keys May Be Vulnerable To NSA Cracking

Ars Technica reports that security researcher Rob Graham of Errata Security, after analyzing nearly 23,000 Tor connections through an exit node that Graham controls, believes that the encryption used by a majority of Tor users could be vulnerable to NSA decryption: “About 76 per”

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Yahoo Says U.S. Looked At Only .01% Of People’s Data, But That’s Way More Than You Think

“Yahoo just released its first transparency report, and despite what the company wants you to believe, the U.S. government is looking at a lot of people’s data. In the report released Friday, Yahoo says that the U.S.”

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