Episode 28 - Marquis Montgomery (Security Expert aka The Anti-Hacker)

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  Google Maps creator aims to change how we listen to music with new Weav platform

  TNW - Amanda Connolly

  Weav is an interactive music mixing platform that was announced today by UK-based startup Cute Little Apps. The app was created by Lars Rasmussen and Elomida Visviki. Rasmussen previously co-created Google Maps and Google Wave before going on to become Facebook’s Director of Engineering. Weav aims to …

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  Did this cybersecurity firm use a data breach for extortion?

  The Verge - By Russell Brandom

  Tiversa first noticed LabMD in July of 2008, doing a routine scan of companies on peer-to-peer networks. At the time, peer-to-peer services like Limewire and Kazaa were still massively popular, and they opened up a new way for data to leak. If a company had a peer-to-peer program on one of its …

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  New York Stock Exchange begins monitoring bitcoin value

  Engadget - Daniel Cooper

  Bitcoin's march toward legitimacy just took a hop, skip and jump with the news that the New York Stock Exchange is going to start monitoring its value. The NYSE Bitcoin Index (NYBXT) will keep a beady eye on how much the cryptocurrency is worth, relative to the US dollar, with the data being pulled …

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  Betaworks-Backed Scale Model Launches To Help Advertisers Target Twitter Communities

  TechCrunch - Jordan Crook

  Scale Model, the first company to launch out of betawork’s newest batch of hacker-in-residence projects, is trying to offer advertisers on Twitter a much more targeted experience than they’ve ever had. The service identifies communities on Twitter (based on interests) and listens to those …

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  May 20, 2015
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  Spotify's deal with Sony reveals the high costs of streaming music

  Engadget - Jon Fingas

  Labels and streaming music services have spent ages bickering over payments for streaming music, but it's never really been clear who was getting the short end of the stick... besides the artists, that is. We may have a better sense of things now that The Verge has leaked details of Sony Music …