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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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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
MIT Responds to Death of Activist Aaron Swartz, Begins Internal Investigation — Two days after Internet activist Aaron Swartz took his own life, the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has issued a public response and will launch an internal investigation looking …
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| Micah Allen / Neuroconscience: |
Researchers begin posting article PDFs to twitter in #pdftribute to Aaron Swartz — Yesterday, as I was completing my morning coffee and internet ritual, @le_feufollet broke the sad news to me of Aaron Swartz's death. Aaron was a leader online, a brilliant coder and developer …
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Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @sarahkendzior, @drjaxon, @venturejessica and @youranonnews
See also Mediagazer| 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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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Family of Hacktivist Aaron Swartz Accuses MIT, U.S. Attorney of Contributing to His Suicide — The family and friends of Aaron Swartz — the famed Internet hacktivist who took his own life on Friday at the age of 26 — released a public statement on Saturday, placing some of the blame …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
Learning by Sharing: Snark-free CES observations — Wheels up, returning from CES. Seems like a good time to reflect and share some of my observations. — Sharing raw data is an important part of building a strong cohesive team. Raw data allows everyone on a team to see the inputs … | Brian Lam / The Wirecutter: |
Some future gadgets I'd maybe buy (aka a realist's guide to CES) — Eight Wirecutter writers and I convened at the Consumer Electronics show this week. You know, CES-The big gadget trade thing that serves as a sneak peek into the future of hardware. Instead of soaking your news feed …
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| 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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VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, Business Insider, Know Your Cell and iDownloadBlog.com
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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TechCrunch, Pocket-lint and iDownloadBlog.com
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Thanks:@alexia| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Design Rivals Technology in Importance — Last year, at Apple's event to announce the iPad Mini, I was wandering around the gadget petting zoo the company sets up after each product unveiling. As I turned a corner, I bumped into Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, who immediately wanted to show me something.
Tweets: @naveen and @nickbilton
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Viggle Isn't Buying GetGlue, After All — Last fall social TV company Viggle announced that it was buying competitor GetGlue in a deal that could have been worth $70 million or more. — But that deal never closed, and tonight GetGlue says that it never will. — A blog post by GetGlue founder Alex Iskold doesn't say much.
Tweets: @pkafka
| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
Samsung: How the Korean firm got to be the biggest tech company in the world — Consider the phablet. Back in 2011, when Samsung first unveiled the Galaxy Note—a 5.3-inch smartphone that was big enough to be a minitablet, hence the ugly portmanteau—the world's tech pundits couldn't stifle their giggles.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's partners fly the Windows 8 flag, but the future is Surface — How long can the old guard shoulder the weight? — Microsoft might not have been at CES this year, but its partners and OEMs were out in full force. A quiet showing from Redmond at a time when the company is trying …
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BetaNews, Associated Press, TG Daily, Pocketables and SiliconANGLE
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Oracle ships Java 7 Update 11 with vulnerability fixes, increased security level for Java applets — After announcing a fix was coming just yesterday, Oracle on Sunday released Java 7 Update 11 to address the recently disclosed security vulnerability. If you use Java, you can download …
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The Oracle Software …, Computerworld, Computerworld, Ars Technica, CNET, The Register, The Verge, Reuters and The Java Source. Tweets: @0xcharlie
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