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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
Australis in Firefox on Linux, Mac, and Windows A very exciting set of changes is landing in Firefox Nightly. We’ve been calling the project Australis, but, simply, it’s the next ...
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How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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37signals Works Remotely [video]
We talk a lot about working remotely. Over 70% of our employees work remotely. They work out of homes, coffee shops, and co-working spaces. They play music, garden, and spend time with their families. We dig working remotely so much we wrote a book about it. Meet some of the fantastic pe…
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A new breed of Chrome Apps
Editor's note: Today marks the 5th birthday of Chrome, a project we started to push the web platform forward. From a humble beginning of s...
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Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues
Encryption is one of the most important ways to safeguard data from prying eyes. But what happens when those prying belong to the government? Can they force you to break your own encryption and provide them with the information they want? In a new amicus brief, we explain that the Fifth Amendment...
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What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call
Mixlr is a London-based startup founded in 2010 to make broadcasting live audio easy and social.... Read More ›
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VLC 2.1.0
Legal | Report Trademark Abuse VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license.
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Update from the CEO
Sundar Pichai will lead Android, in addition to his existing work with Chrome and Apps.
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Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking
Spotify supports unicode usernames which we are a bit proud of (not many services allow you to have ☃, the unicode snowman, as a username). However, it has also been a reliable source of pain over the years. This is the story of one time when it bit us pretty badly and how we spent Easter dealing with it.
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EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment
This Fourth of July, EFF will be demonstrating our commitment to your Constitutional right of privacy from government surveillance by displaying the text of the Fourth Amendment on our website. This demonstration is a visual symbol of our opposition to the illegal and unconstitutional surveillance...
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Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones
First Open Web Devices Powered by Firefox OS Make Smartphones More Accessible; Regional announcements coming soon Mountain View, Calif. – July 1, 2013 – Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to ...
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PyPy 2.0 Released
We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.0. This is a stable release that brings a swath of bugfixes, small performance improvements and compatibil...
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Scientists discover second code hiding in DNA
Finding a second code hiding in the genome casts new light on how changes to DNA impact health and disease.
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Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking
Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of every passing car, recording their plate numbers, times, and locations. At first the captured plate data was used just to…
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Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
We now know that the NSA is collecting location information en masse. As we’ve long said, location data is an extremely powerful set of information about people.
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Wireshark is switching to Qt
Today I released the next development version of Wireshark, 1.11.0. This marks a major change in the direction of the project. We’re switching our user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. Both libraries make it easy for developers write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot…
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Bradley Manning’s Statement
Yesterday Bradley explained how and more importantly, why, he shared classified documents with WikiLeaks. Rush transcript by Alexa O'Brien.
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Trello celebrates One Million Users
Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.
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