Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.The San Francisco-based company announced the breach in a blog post published early Thursday night. Tumblr notified affected users in an email at approximately...
Chicago bluesman Magic Slim dead at 75
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Guitarist Magic Slim, a mainstay of the Chicago blues scene who followed in the footsteps of such greats as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, died on Thursday at age 75, his manager said.Slim, the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing his right pinky finger in a cotton gin accident at age 13. He died at a Philadelphia hospital where...
Governors Fall Away in G.O.P. Opposition to More Medicaid
Label: HealthUnder pressure from the health care industry and consumer advocates, seven Republican governors are cautiously moving to expand Medicaid, giving an unexpected boost to President Obama’s plan to insure some 30 million more Americans. The Supreme Court ruled last year that expanding Medicaid to include many more low-income people was an option under the new federal health care law, not a requirement,...
Sign of a Comeback: U.S. Carmakers Are Hiring
Label: BusinessTony Dejak/Associated PressJoseph R. Hinrichs, head of Ford's Americas region, with a two-liter EcoBoost engine at the Cleveland plant. DETROIT — A few years ago, American automakers cut tens of thousands of jobs and shut dozens of factories simply to survive. But since the recession ended and General Motors and Chrysler began to recover with the help of hefty government bailouts and bankruptcy...
The Queen's New Gambit: Chess as a Great American Spectator Sport
Label: Technology Julian Schuster first heard the rumor a year and a half ago. Susan Polgar, the legendary grand master known to journalists as “the Queen,” was unhappy in her current position as Texas Tech’s chess coach. She was feeling unappreciated. She had made this known to certain people in the tight-knit world of chess, and the news had traveled from one of these confidants, a foreign grand master living...
Michael Moore on “5 Broken Cameras” director’s LAX ordeal: It doesn’t compare to Palestinians’ “daily humiliation”
Label: LifestyleLOSD ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Michael Moore said that Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat‘s ordeal with immigration officials on Tuesday demonstrates that the United States is overly strict when it comes to greeting foreign visitors, particularly people of color.“If he’d been a white guy he wouldn’t have to go through that in our ‘post-racial’ America,” Moore, the Oscar-winning director...
In Reversal, Florida to Take Health Law’s Medicaid Expansion
Label: HealthMIAMI — Gov. Rick Scott of Florida reversed himself on Wednesday and announced that he would expand his state’s Medicaid program to cover the poor, becoming the latest — and, perhaps, most prominent — Republican critic of President Obama’s health care law to decide to put it into effect. It was an about-face for Mr. Scott, a former businessman who entered politics as a critic of Mr. Obama’s...
The Trade: A Revolving Door in Washington With Spin, but Less Visibility
Label: BusinessObsess all you’d like about President Obama’s nomination of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Who heads the agency is vital, but important fights in Washington are happening in quiet rooms, away from the media gaze.After a widely praised stint as a tough United States attorney, Ms. White spent the last decade serving so many large banks and investment houses that by the...
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At least 16 hurt in blast and fire at Kansas City restaurant
Label: World At least 16 people were hurt and a popular wine bar was destroyed by an apparent natural gas explosion and ensuing fire at an...
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