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Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure

android-developers.blo · 3 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lavabit abruptly shuts down

    5 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Woody Allen: What I've learned

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Open Source Google App Engine Clone

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure

    android-developers.blo · 3 outlets

  2. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

    microsoft.com · 1 outlets

  3. U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

    chicagotribune.com · 1 outlets

  4. Startup lessons

    defmacro.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. How to Convince Investors

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue

    blog.statuspage.io · 1 outlets

  3. A horrifying startup accelerator story

    davidgcohen.com · 2 outlets

  4. Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors?

    physics.stackexchange. · 1 outlets

  6. Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

    vanityfair.com · 1 outlets

  8. Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  9. The one HR benefit every startup should add

    42floors.com · 1 outlets

  10. Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market

    fool.com · 1 outlets

Sports 17 stories

  1. Let me tell you about a game I made with the sole intention of watching it die

    dominikjohann.tumblr.c · 1 outlets

  2. ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source

    reactos.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional

    oregonlive.com · 1 outlets

  2. In California, a Champion for Police Cameras

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions

    stuartkhall.com · 1 outlets

  4. Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

    lists.w3.org · 1 outlets

  5. German government warns Windows 8 is a security risk

    zeit.de · 2 outlets

  6. Babylon.js: JS framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL

    blogs.msdn.com · 1 outlets

Technology 619 stories

  1. Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested

    twitlonger.com · 3 outlets

  2. UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives

    pressfreedomfoundation · 2 outlets

  3. The NSA is Commandeering the Internet

    schneier.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Open Source Google App Engine Clone

    goread.io · 4 outlets

  2. SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  3. City of London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins

    qz.com · 2 outlets

  4. Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

  5. Lavabit abruptly shuts down

    theguardian.com · 10 outlets

  6. Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize

    salon.com · 2 outlets

  7. White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention

    m.bbc.co.uk · 5 outlets

  8. Go for System Administrators

    techweekeurope.co.uk · 3 outlets

  9. Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python

    textblob.readthedocs.o · 2 outlets

  2. NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

    gigaom.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser

    blog.grunseid.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor

    tridiv.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

    notezilla.io · 2 outlets

  4. Show HN: TextIt – Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world

    textit.in · 1 outlets

  5. Information Dashboard Design, 2nd Edition

    chartio.com · 1 outlets

  6. Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication

    wired.com · 2 outlets

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