Techmeme: Anonymous Posts Response Letter To Snitch Sabu (On A Hacked Security Firm's Website) (Andy Greenberg/The Firewall)

March 7, 2012, 12:55 PM

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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon — “Script kiddie”—no hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used to describe him. Anyone with modest computer skills can cause modest havoc using other people's code fragments, scanners, and infiltration tools …

More: Guardian, New York Times, Wired, Softpedia News, Edible Apple, Fox News, BuzzFeed, Fox News, Errata Security, FBI and Gizmodo

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Anonymous Posts Response Letter To Snitch Sabu (On A Hacked Security Firm's Website) — The hacker group Anonymous is dealing with the arrest and betrayal of one of its most vocal members the only way it knows how: By hacking a security firm and covering its website with a rant against feds and snitches.

More: Inquirer, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Fox News, SlashGear, Network World, Computerworld, ExtremeTech, Examiner, Social Media, Gawker and New York Times

The Verge:

Live from Apple's iPad 3 event in San Francisco — Event begins on March 7 at 9:45 AM

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Chris Dixon:

The problem with investing based on pattern recognition — A famous story in artificial intelligence is how the US military developed algorithms to determine whether an image had a tank in it. They used a standard machine learning method: feed the computer a “training set” of photos …

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

Is Amazon getting into original TV? — Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube are pouring resources into original content. Now, Amazon may be, too. — FORTUNE — Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube are all betting big on original content. Now, Amazon may be doing the very same.

More: BGR, PC World, VentureBeat, CNET, TechFlash, GeekWire, Deadline.com, WebProNews and Gizmodo. Thanks:@jpmanga. See also Mediagazer

TSA Out of Our Pants!:

$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners — This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA's insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe …

More: WebProNews, CNET, Gizmodo, Mashable, Geek.com and Slashdot

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Acer: $799 ultrabooks make no profit, aiming for $499 price nonetheless — Acer Global President Jianren Weng has been quoted at CeBIT today reiterating something he said at the beginning of December: ultrabooks will drop to the crazy-low price of $499 in 2013 and compete directly against Apple's iPad.

More: Electronista, DailyTech, SlashGear, Fudzilla, The Loop, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and The Tech Report

Jackie Dove / Macworld:

Adobe previews Shadow, a free Web development utility, on Adobe Labs — Web program works with development tools to preview site designs simultaneously on multiple mobile devices — Adobe has unveiled Shadow, a lightweight Web development utility that helps designers and developers preview designs …

More: BetaNews, Forbes, VentureBeat, eWeek, Android Police and Android Community

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Analyzing Apple's All-Time Top Apps Lists — With the iOS App Store passing 25 billion downloads, Apple has published all-time rankings of the top 25 free and paid iPhone and iPad apps. (Via Daring Fireball.) — Digging in... - Angry Birds is 3 of the top 10 paid iPhone apps — nos. 1, 5, and 8.

More: Daring Fireball and The Mac Observer

Reuters:

Exclusive: Netflix in talks for cable partnership — (Reuters) - Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has quietly met with some of the largest U.S. cable companies in recent weeks to discuss adding the online movie streaming service to their cable offerings, according to sources familiar with matter.

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

American Express transforms Twitter hashtags into savings for cardholders — American Express is giving cardmembers one super compelling reason to tweet about promotional offers: instant savings at name brand U.S. merchants. — The company launched a “Tweet your way to savings” …

More: Forbes, Fast Company, VatorNews, Digital Trends, AllThingsD, InvestorPlace, MarketWatch, MarketingVox News & Trends, Associated Press and GigaOM

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Google promises a unified social and mobile game platform — Within the year, Google will turn its different game platforms into a single, unified platform that developers can more easily target. That's the promise made today by Punit Soni (pictured second from right), group product manager for the company's Google+ social layer.

More: The Verge, SocialTimes.com, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Social Markets, MacNN, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, Bits and Mashable

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Spotify: ‘We have to turn ourselves into the OS of music’ — Streaming music service provides stats for the first apps to launch on its desktop apps platform — Spotify users have spent 1,500 years inside apps within its desktop application since the start of December, the company has announced.

More: The Verge, Spotify, Gizmodo, T3 News and WebProNews

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Nuance buys Transcend for $300 million, bolsters medical business — Summary: With the Transcend purchase, Nuance said it will be able to better target mid-sized hospitals. — Nuance Communications said it will acquire medical transcription company Transcend in a deal valued at $300 million, or $29.50.

More: PC World, VentureBeat, The Tech Trade, TechCrunch, Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google looking to unload Motorola's TV set-top box business — This just in: The TV set-top box is on its deathbed. — Google is looking to unload the set-top box business it will inherit from Motorola Mobility even before it closes on the $12.5 billion acquisition, The Post has learned.

More: The Verge, MediaPost, Engadget, The Next Web and FierceIPTV

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Slide to unlock: how Apple's patents are changing Android — Although the worldwide patent lawsuits between Apple and nearly every major Android smartphone vendor have been bitterly fought and may eventually involve government intervention, there's really no day-to-day impact on the consumer …

More: Patently Apple

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

‘Anti-Display’ Network BlogFrog Raises $3.2 Million for NY Office and Mom Blog Empire — BlogFrog, a community-building network for mom bloggers, has raised $3.2 million in a Series A round of funding led by Grotech Ventures. Seed investor David Cohen, founder of TechStars also participated.

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Techrockies.com

John Cook / GeekWire:

Bill Gates-owned Corbis unveils an ‘iTunes for music licensing’ with GreenLight Music — Corbis may be best known for licensing digital images. But the Seattle company, started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1989, is expanding its footprint in the digital music arena today with the launch of GreenLight Music.

More: Reuters, the Econsultancy blog, SlashGear, blogs.ft.com, MacNN and AllThingsD

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

What's Next For Google Play? Audiobooks And Magazines — Yesterday, Google announced the launch of Google Play, a rebranded Android Market which consolidates all of Google's media offerings, including apps, music, movies and e-books, into one portal. But it appears that Google's ambitions …

More: Google Operating System, Pulse2 Technology … and The Official Google Blog. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

NBC partners with YouTube to deliver video services for the London 2012 Olympics — US TV company NBC has partnered with Google-owned video service YouTube to provide its video player and livestreaming infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games. — Comcast, which was recently acquired …

More: Techland. Thanks:@m4tt

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Collaboration Start-Up Atlassian Acquires HipChat — Amid the current craze for enterprise collaboration software, somehow Atlassian had escaped my attention. Ten years old, based in Sydney and San Francisco, backed by a $60 million investment from Accel Partners and sporting annual revenue north …

More: HipChat Blog and The Next Web

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung sues Apple over patents in Korea (after saying it wouldn't) — Samsung has backtracked on plans to avoid a legal dispute with Apple in Korea, after the company revealed that it has filed a suit in the country. According to a Reuters report, Samsung is claiming that the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringe on three of its patents.

More: Reuters, ZDNet, The Register, PC Magazine, BGR, InvestorPlace, FOSS Patents, CNET, TechCrunch, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, Sammy Hub, Engadget, TUAW and iPhone

Amit Runchal / TechCrunch:

The Barber Of Infinite Loop: How The iPad Could Give Microsoft A Serious Revenue Haircut — After Apple pushed its 25 billionth app this weekend there was nothing especially surprising about the list of all-time paid apps for the iPhone: games and novelty apps dominated it.

More: Interactioned and parislemon

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter co-founders' Obvious Corp. announces Branch, a ‘curated discussion platform’ — Obvious Corporation, the new endeavor of Twitter founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, has today announced its second project. It's called Branch and it's a partnership with developers Josh Miller …

More: AllThingsD, CNET, beta.branch.com, Branch Bulletin, TechCrunch and Obvious

Tweets: @fromedome and @r

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

Branch Joins Obvious Corp, Picks Up $2 M. from Lerer Ventures and SV Angel, and Heads East to Betaworks

More: parislemon, Business Insider and VentureBeat

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