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British Airways notifies frequent flyers of possible breach of their accounts

India backs open source software for e-governance projects

GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks

FCC will vote next month on plan to share valuable 3.5GHz spectrum

Kleiner Perkins cleared of sex discrimination against Ellen Pao

Facebook reveals the logic behind its forced Messenger split

Tim Cook plans to donate all his money to charity

Tim Cook will reportedly give away the entirety of his fortune to various charities.

French self-driving car goes for a spin around Paris monument

USB Type-C peripherals are on the way, and storage devices are first up

5 freshly-funded cloud computing companies worth watching

Venture capitalists pour funds into cloud companies old and new, including Aryaka, Hedvig and BetterCloud

Scars on Mars: NASA finds landing blasts fade inconsistently

NASA wants to model the blast zone for future missions, study

Congress moves quickly on cyberthreat information sharing

Google Cloud Launcher deploys VM-based apps in a snap

Google offers a new service for launching packaged apps in VMs to Cloud Platform, by way of a partnership with Bitnami

Last-mile mobile optimization boosts app performance

It's often the last mile that slows a mobile device when browsing. One company reckons it's got the fix—a unique algorithmic method to accelerate the data.

Safari users in the UK can sue Google over alleged privacy violations

F8: Facebook launches open-source JavaScript library to speed mobile development

Open-source proponent Facebook wants more developers building more apps faster for both Android and iOS.

BlackBerry shocks with Q4 profit but CEO Chen can’t stop sales slide

GNOME 3.16 release brings great new apps, notifications

The most noteworthy new updates to GNOME.

DDoS attacks less frequent last year, more dangerous

The total number of distributed denial of service attacks declined steadily last year, but the size and complexity of the average attack increased

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, March 27

Startup takes the effort out of endpoint detection and response

Security service partners with other security vendors to flush out its platform

Vectra Networks ships a new sensor for its attack-detection gear

New appliance gathers more data for its analysis engine to digest

UN to appoint watchdog to focus on privacy in digital age

At Facebook, a sharpening focus on virtual reality

In Japan, smartphone apps time spring’s cherry blossoms

An SDN vulnerability forced OpenDaylight to focus on security

Cash, IT security threaten NASA Deep Space Network operation

NASA’s Inspector General critical of budget, IT security programs

Meltdown! New Periscope iPhone app live streams ice cream factory’s end

What's up with new Twitter iPhone video live streaming app Periscope

For $60, you can hack a connected car

A former Tesla intern is selling a completely open source tool to hack connected car systems.

Spartan forecast: Browser of choice for 1 in 7 Windows users within a year

Cheap mobile subscriptions the bait as Euro operators become more aggressive

Nigeria joins list of African countries threatening prison sentences for mobile operators

US lawmakers push for auctions of gov’t spectrum

RSA Conference bans ‘booth babes’

Amazon debuts bottomless storage plans for photos, data

Gold Apple Watch buyers will receive special treatment

If you have over $10,000 to spend on a gold Apple Watch, you'll be treated just a tad differently.

Cloud and Proud: Salesforce takes umbrage at Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedoms’ act

A controversial new law in Indiana could cost the state significant investment from Salesforce.

Many password strength meters are downright WEAK, researchers say

Dropbox gets a shout-out, though, for a worthy password checker

ZTE’s Nubia Z9 Max phablet packs a powerful camera

Facebook invites developers to monetize Messenger at F8 conference

Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new mantra at the company's F8 developer conference, and the company appears to be living up to it.

White House making it easier to get an L-1 visa

Federal action raises concerns with critics of temporary work programs

Will embedded OS and middleware help save Blackberry?

Sort of, according to the experts – though it depends on what your idea of “save” really means.

IoT could help give your local area its own power grid

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, March 16

About 25 US states oppose sale of RadioShack’s customer data

Facebook’s Like button can still easily be gamed

FTC says it did not go easy on Google in search probe

Egyptian company says rogue Google SSL certificates were a mistake

How Messenger chats factor into what you see in Facebook news feed

Facebook pushes Messenger as future of business communication

The company sees Business on Messenger replacing the telephone as people's go-to method for communicating with businesses