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Court Prods FCC In Unexpected Direction In Last Week’s Verizon Ruling

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By Andy Oram A court ruling this past Tuesday on FCC “network neutrality” regulation closes and opens a few paths in a three-way chess game that has been going on for years between the US District...

The Reason Personality Tests Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind

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Please tell me the web personality quiz is NOT making a comeback. Maybe the popularity of these quizzes never even declined. After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in. I...

Gun-Toting At The IRS

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The IRS wields enormous power, but should agents be armed too? With all of the controversy facing the IRS and the tax system these days, it can seem doubly scary to contemplate tax collectors being...

Tech industry: Obama’s NSA reforms ‘insufficient’

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Tech industry group calls Obama's NSA speech 'thoughtful, but insufficient' SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama's speech on U.S....
    






Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk

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By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






Did Target Malware Teen Take A Piece Of The Pie?

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Security firm IntelCrawler has released evidence supporting the identity of the programmer behind the BlackPOS malware that infected Target and other major U.S. retailers as the 17-year-old Russian...
    






Yahoo’s COO de Castro Hit Two Of The Three Main Causes Of Executive Onboarding Failure

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It’s not a surprise that Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has fired COO Henrique De Castro. Yes. He was her first big hire. Yes. It is going to cost Yahoo crazy amounts of money to pay him off. But he does...
    






Aisha Tyler is a very Interesting Personality

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She will not allow her childhood days spent in poverty to return. Aisha Tyler is a dedicated soul who performs her job as a thespian to the hilt. Recently, she gave away a bit of information...