Good morning!
Here's what's happening in tech:
- Researchers have found that a new computer bug, The Heartbleed Bug, can make information you thought was safe on secure websites such as Gmail vulnerable. The bug hacks popular encryption software OpenSSL and gets your computer to give information it isn't supposed to to another computer.
- Here's how bad Bleeding Heart actually is, what information of yours could be compromised, and how to protect yourself from it moving forward.
- Here's which New York venture capitalists invest in the fewest female founders.
- An Australian startup that makes business tools and software but doesn't utilize sales people, Atlassian, has been valued at $3.3 billion. It's profitable and has been cash-flow positive for more than a decade.
- Wattpad, a collaborative writing tool that connects authors with fans, received $46 million from OMERS Ventures, August Capital, Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and original Yahoo Jerry Yang.
- Uber launched a new delivery service, RUSH, in New York City yesterday. Messengers on bike or foot will deliver a small local package for a flat rate.
- A Twitter redesign will make the microblogging platform look exactly like Facebook.
- Apple blogger John Gruber thinks venture capitalist Chris Dixon was wrong when he wrote that the mobile web is declining.
- An Israel startup, StoreDot, says it's found a way to charge your phone in 30 seconds and there's video to prove it.
- Here's how Google Glass helped a doctor quickly cure a patient whose brain was bleeding.