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Friday, March 25, 2016

Starboard’s Revolt, Ackman’s Blues, A Frosty February for Hedge Funds and New Jersey’s Performance Problems

The big news this week is a report that activist hedge fund Starboard Value is pushing to remove the entire board of directors at Yahoo! Inc. The Wall Street Journal first reported on a letter that indicates Starboard is preparing to nominate nine directors to the company's board of directors, as the hedge fund remains discontent with the turnaround effort under CEO Marissa Mayer.

This would be the largest company to ever have its full board of directors replaced by an activist investor.

WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for 25 March

Your WIRED.co.uk daily briefing. Today, scientists have created a synthetic microbe with just 473 genes, researchers have analysed Zika's DNA to find that it didn't come to Brazil with the World Cup, the first Oculus Rift consumer VR headsets have shipped and more.

By: WIRED.co.uk,

ET deals: Dell Inspiron 17 5000 series 17.3-inch laptop for $639

If you're in the market for a nice big-screen laptop, take a look at the 17.3-inch Inspiron 17 5000 series from Dell. With a new Skylake CPU, a generous amount of RAM, and a 1080p display, this laptop is a steal when you use today's coupon code.

Web Development Reading List #130: Opera Mini, Workflow Fragility And Happy Work

What a week! Some people were debating over our npm workflows and security attacks (and sadly not just virtual social engineering ones but real ones in Brussels), we've also seen some great new articles that feature the better parts of our community and society. I'm happy to share them with you over this longer Easter-weekend. Cheers!

iOS9.3 and OS X 10.11.4 is finally being delivered to users, and with it, Safari 9.1 is out with element support, CSS Custom Properties, will-change property, unset value and unprefixed filter.

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