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Apple Employees: Hackers Have Offered Us $23,000 For Our Login Info

An Apple worker in Ireland told Business Insider that hackers often contact employees in an attempt to bribe them for information.

Apple employees say they’ve been offered thousands of dollars by hackers who wish to obtain their login information, according to Business Insider. An Apple employee who works out of Ireland said hackers regularly contact workers in an attempt to bribe them for company information.

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Can This App Rewire Podcasts For The Future?

Anchor, freshly infused with VC cash, is rethinking how audio is created and shared. Is the age of participatory podcasts upon us?

For a media format that’s allegedly undergoing a renaissance, spoken audio is pretty stale. Unlike the hypertext of the web, every second of content in a podcast or other piece of online audio is locked firmly inside the waveforms and timestamps of a medium that hasn’t changed all that much since NPR first started posting its shows on what we once called “the Net.”

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What We Hope To Learn During Twitter’s Q4 Earnings Report

As Twitter reports its fourth-quarter financial results, we’re keeping an eye on these issues.

Twitter is set to report its fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and guidance from the company’s executives can’t come soon enough. The social network’s stock has plummeted in recent weeks amid stagnant user growth, controversial product changes, high-level staff departures, and concerns over how the company is addressing harassment and terrorist propaganda.

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Here’s How Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan Could Affect You

The president’s plan to upgrade cybersecurity isn’t just a bunch of task forces and blue ribbon panels. It could actually have an impact.

Today the White House dropped a massive Cybersecurity National Action Plan that aims to upgrade online security and privacy for the government, corporations, and regular citizens. The plan includes an executive order to create a Federal Privacy Council, a job description for the new title of Chief Information Security Officer, and requests $19 billion in extra funding. The president’s plan pulls tech companies into the federal policy process, with some of the biggest—including Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, RSA, and Twitter—already voicing support.

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Can You Get Fired For Having Postpartum Depression?

Postpartum depression can hit as many as one out of five new mothers up to a year after giving birth. Yet some still get fired.

Depression. Anxiety. Bipolar disorder. OCD. These mental illnesses are not often thought of in the same context as a new baby. The latter is more likely to be linked with smiles and celebration. But recent research shows that these disorders or a combination of some can develop in as many as one in five women in the year after giving birth.

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The 15-Second Films Taking Instagram By Storm

Why Instagram was the creative medium of choice for the filmmakers behind Shield 5.

Shield 5 is a captivating new thriller that follows a wrongfully accused man on the run, desperate to clear his name. It has a lot in common with shows like Homeland and 24, except for one tiny thing: Each episode is only 15 seconds long.

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