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| Anne Cai / MIT's The Tech: |
Aaron Swartz commits suicide — Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment to The Tech. Swartz was 26. — “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” …
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See also Mediagazer| Lawrence Lessig / Lessig Blog, v2: |
Prosecutor as bully — (Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.) — Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events …
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| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
RIP, Aaron Swartz — To the extent possible under law, Cory Doctorow has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “RIP, Aaron Swartz.” — Update: Go read Lessig: “He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think?
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| Remember Aaron Swartz: |
Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz — Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing. — Aaron's insatiable curiosity, creativity …
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| Alex Stamos / Unhandled Exception: |
The Truth about Aaron Swartz's “Crime” — I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person's entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who was clearly pouring his life into defending his son.
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See also Mediagazer| John Schwartz / New York Times: |
Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 — Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader … | MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
The Boy Who Cried Facebook Phone — In The Lord of the Rings, when Sauron's forces capture Gollum, they torture him in Mordor but are only able to get two things out of him: “Shire” and “Baggins”. Over the past few days, we've had similar frustrations in trying to track down the content …
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| The Verge: |
The Verge Awards: the best of CES 2013 — This is not about revenge. This is about justice. This is the best of CES 2013. — We came, we saw, we got lost in a virtual world. And now we're back. The show that was supposed to be the last of the biggest — the end of the best …
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| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Oracle Corp to fix Java security flaw “shortly” — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp said it is preparing an update to address a flaw in its widely used Java software after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable the program in web browsers because criminal hackers are exploiting a security bug to attack PCs.
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| Alex Howard / O'Reilly: |
U.S. House makes legislative data more open to the people in XML — Opening data in Congress is a marathon, not a sprint. The 113th Congress is making notable, incremental progress on open government. — It was a good week for open government data in the United States Congress.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft declares Windows RT Jailbreak tool is safe, says it ‘appreciates the work of researchers’ — On Thursday, the Windows RT Jailbreak tool was released, opening the door further for a Microsoft Surface homebrew community. We asked Microsoft to expand on its previous comments … | Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed: |
To Pin A Criminal — Weddings, inspiration boards, recipes, and now, mug shots. “People are doing this to sell shampoo, so my question is, ‘How do I use it to arrest people?’” — The Pinterest page of criminal suspects in Pottstown, PA — Police Departments from San Francisco to Pottstown …
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