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AOL Admits Data Breach Was Behind Spam Surge

       AOL email accounts may have been compromised, and all AOL users are strongly encouraged to change their passwords. The admission came a week after floods of spam were discovered seemingly coming from AOL email addresses. The spam was sent to contacts in AOL users' address books and contained links for diet pills and Android malware.At the time, AOL denied that the company's systems had been hacked into, and insisted that the spammers were spoofing, or forging AOL users email addresses, not actually accessing the accounts. The second assertion turned out to be true, but it didn’t mesh with the denial of a data breach

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Twitter Says Native Ads Will Be Available To All MoPub Publishers Tomorrow. 

MoPub is making native ads available to all of its publishers tomorrow! Today’s MoPub blog post quotes executives from a couple of those early partners, including Flipboard CTO Eric Feng. (That’s Flipboard in the images above.) While the news doesn’t apply directly to ads on Twitter, the acquisition of MoPub is a way for the company to extend its advertising reach beyond Twitter itself (where units like Promoted Tweets are themselves a form of native advertising.) 

Spring Break

What I did over spring break was hanging out with friends and family. I went to the mall with my mom and my Aunt. Watched movies with my little brothers/babysit. I had softball practice/games. Then, I went to my friends baseball games. I went to Starbucks like every other day with my friend.

                               

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Regulators To Facebook And WhatsApp: 'We're Watching You'

       The FTC is letting the deal go through, but said the two companies must honor their privacy commitments to consumers.  The FTC staff will continue to monitor the companies’ practices to ensure that Facebook and WhatsApp honor the promises they have made to those users. Both Facebook and WhatsApp have already said  they will safeguard the privacy of their users. Last month WhatsApp’s founder Jan Koum defended his company’s commitment to the privacy of its more than 480 million active users.  

          

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Facebook Messenger gets WiFi calling feature in update  

 An update to Facebook Messenger is rolling out to users right now, offering a few interesting tweaks you may want to take advantage of. This update also offers WiFi calling. That’s right, Facebook is now offering VoIP. The group chatting feature is pretty simple, in that it offers you the opportunity to create groups for a chat, then pin them to a separate page within the app. You can even quiet the chat for periods of time, which is useful for those noisy members who you just wish would stop.