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Here's where things get really bad: Virtually everyone who shopped on LaCie's website in the last year is at risk.

The company informed members of the 70-person hardware team -- part of its larger, technology-focused Digital Sport division comprised of about 200 people -- of the job cuts Thursday. About 30 employees reside at Nike's Hong Kong offices, with the remainder of the team at Nike's Beaverton, Ore., headquarters.

“The Nike+ FuelBand SE remains an important part of our business,” the company said in a statement emailed to Re/code. “We will continue to improve the Nike+ FuelBand App, launch new METALUXE colors, and we will sell and support the Nike+ FuelBand SE for the foreseeable future.”

Since Microsoft wants to ensure that customers benefit from the best support and servicing experience and to coordinate and simplify servicing across both Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 RT and Windows 8.1, this update will be considered a new servicing/support baseline. What this means is those users who have elected to install updates manually will have 30 days to install Windows 8.1 Update on Windows 8.1 devices; after this 30-day window - and beginning with the May Patch Tuesday, Windows 8.1 user's devices without the update installed will no longer receive security updates.

According to Digitimes, who is citing anonymous sources, it appears that Google is looking to launch this tablet in Q3. Which sounds about right, let me explain. Google I/O is June 25-26. And Q2 ends on June 30th. Which means we could see the Nexus 8 announced at Google I/O and then released about a week later. Digitimes also reports that Google is moving to a 8-inch tablet and having HTC build it instead of ASUS. Which many of us have been asking for HTC to build another Nexus as many of us love their build, but would love to see stock Android on their devices, hence a Nexus.

We've come a long way since API level 1, and looking back we found that some apps would scatter their files across external storage. If an app was uninstalled, these files would be orphaned, and users had to manually scavenge through all these files to free up disk space. This was a bad user experience, and something we wanted to avoid repeating. So when we added APIs for secondary external storage devices in KitKat, we carefully limited write access to directories belonging to the running app. This gives us the best of both worlds: apps can take advantage of the extra storage space, and users have better visibility into and control over how apps are using their storage space. (These package-specific directories are surfaced to apps through Context.getExternalFilesDirs(), etc.)

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a civil case filed against the two-year-old private firm by ABC, CBS, NBC and other major broadcasters alleging that Aereo is no different from cable and satellite firms that are required to pay hefty fees to rebroadcast their shows.

Here’s all you need to do: Go to this page (Note: For now, it looks like you’ll need to do this on a desktop browser, not your phone) Scroll to the bottom Hit the tiny ‘Get it now’ button If you’re not already logged in, it’ll ask you to do so

For the past three years, Comcast's Senior VP of Governmental Affairs has been Meredith Baker. Baker's last job was the Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, where she signed off on the controversial NBCUniversal sale to Comcast in 2009. Now we know that Baker, the former FCC Commissioner and a public official, was around to help make sure net neutrality died so Internet costs could soar, and that Time Warner Cable would be allowed to fold into Comcast, despite claims that the new megacorp might violate antitrust laws. Neither the new net neutrality rules nor a Time Warner Cable sale to Comcast could possibly benefit an average consumer or a small business. Both are likely to pass anyway.

The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care.

RT @sengineland: Weekend Review: @DailyMotion Says @Google Is Cheating...

RT @TheNextWeb: Adobe issues fix for Flash flaw allowing attackers to remotely control Windows, OS X, and Linux computers by @epro

RT @pcworld: Microsoft’s Stephen Elop says the Nokia brand won't be sticking around for future smartphones.

RT @ITworld: Losses mount for Microsoft's #Surface tablet line: via @gkeizer @Computerworld

RT @hackernewsbot: US-CERT recommends not using IE until use-after-free vulnerability is fixed...

Tomorrow’s 11-inch and 13-inch Airs are codenamed J41A and J43A, respectively, and their SKUs are simply a variation to the current MacBook Air SKU labels. For example, the entry 13-inch MacBook Air of today is known as "MD760LL/A", while this week’s refreshed version is known as "MD760LL/B." It's unclear if Apple will even promote the updated Airs.

RT @appletweets__: Apple updates MacBook Air models with processor bump, $100 price drop: Apple today refreshed its MacBook Air ...

RT @gigaom: Amazon’s Wearable Technology store is open for business

RT @alexisohanian: :) RT @Inc: .@alexisohanian's Low-Tech Idea for Thwarting the FCC's Anti-Net Neutrality Plans by @jeremyquittner

RT @Techmeme: Samsung & Apple Slip as Global Smartphone Shipments Reach 285 Million Units in Q1 2014

RT @Techmeme: Samsung & Apple Slip as Global Smartphone Shipments Reach 285 Million Units in Q1 2014

RT @MediaPost: AOL Reveals Breach, Tells Email Users to Change Passwords: AOL has confirmed an email breach...

RT @dsilverman: New TechBlog post: No, Microsoft shouldn’t make an exception for the XP Internet Explorer flaw

RT @TheNextWeb: Acer announces Liquid Leap, its first wearable smart band by @nattgarun

RT @Techmeme: Office for iPad now includes printing (Office Blogs)

RT @Techmeme: Office for iPad now includes printing (Office Blogs)

RT @IARSprint: Sprint introduces a national entertainment platform – Sprint Sound Sessions. Find out more: #SprintEmployee

RT @mediagazer: Why China is censoring 'The Big Bang Theory' but not 'Game of Thrones' (@lilkuo / Quartz)

RT @mediagazer: Why China is censoring 'The Big Bang Theory' but not 'Game of Thrones' (@lilkuo / Quartz)