

Apple chief executive Tim Cook says the company will add more security measures to iCloud. (Photo illustration by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

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Tim Cook says Apple to add security alerts for iCloud users "Apple Inc. said it plans additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts, but denied that a lax attitude toward security had allowed intruders to post nude photos of celebrities on the Internet," reports the Wall Street Journal's Daisuke Wakabayashi. "To make such leaks less likely, Mr. Cook said Apple will alert users via email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device, or when a device logs into an account for the first time."

White House names Google’s Megan Smith the next Chief Technology Officer of the United States "The White House announced Thursday that it has named its next Chief Technology Officer. She is Megan Smith, a Google executive with decades of experience in Silicon Valley," reports The Washington Post's Nancy Scola. "The Obama administration named as deputy U.S. CTO, Alexander Macgillivray, a former Twitter lawyer known as a staunch defender of the free flow of information online."

A funny thing happened on the way to Coursera Stanford University computer scientist and lawyer Jonathan Mayer wrote on his personal blog that he's "stumbled across a few security and privacy issues" on the free online class site, Coursera. "Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses," Mayer said."If you are logged into your Coursera account, any website that you visit can list your course enrollments." And, finally, he added, "Coursera’s privacy-protecting user IDs don’t do much privacy protecting."

U.S. Mail delivers Amazon groceries in San Francisco "Amazon.com Inc. and the U.S. Postal Service, already partners in Sunday deliveries, have launched a trial to shuttle insulated containers of meat, dairy, produce and other groceries to San Francisco customers' doorsteps," reports the Wall Street Journal's Greg Bensinger and Laura Stevens. "The test could presage a broader national rollout, giving Amazon's grocery drop-off service a much wider reach."

FBI working with game developer association to combat online harassment "The International Game Developers Association is working with the FBI and bullying experts to help game developers deal with what they see as an increase in online harassment, Kate Edwards, executive director of the International Game Developers Association," reports Polygon's Brian Crecente. "The association plans to create an online resource on its official site in the coming months to outline what developers can do to minimize harassment and how best to deal with it when it happens."