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| 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 …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, CNN, CNET, msnbc.com, The Lede, reddit, somersetbean.blogspot.com.au, Forbes, thenation.com/blogs/171686, PC World, MIT's The Tech, Gizmodo, CircleID, Reuters, AfterDawn.com, CNN, MetaFilter, Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, Neowin, Guardian and Open Gardens
Tweets: @declanm, @kevinmitnick, @dannysullivan, @levie, @davewiner, @scobleizer, @declanm, @jpbarlow, @nikcub, @jonpierce and @codinghorror
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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Tweets: @kimdotcom, @kimdotcom, @codinghorror, @anildash, @declanm and @zephoria
| 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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Quinn Norton, Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka, TorrentFreak, ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Verge, Softpedia News, CNET, SiliconANGLE, SocialTimes, BostInno, GigaOM and Business Insider
Tweets: @timberners_lee, @wikileaks, @ggreenwald, @gaberivera, @thematthewkeys, @jwherrman, @dangillmor, @stevenlevy and @ioerror
| 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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Internet Archive Blogs, The Verge, Philip Greenspun's Weblog, Jillian C. York, Quinn Said, CNET, The Adventures …, The Atlantic Online, Ars Technica, Dan Gillmor, Lessig Blog, v2, TechCrunch, Wikimedia blog, confused of calcutta, Crooked Timber, Digital Media Wire, Search Engine Land, BuzzMachine, Guardian, Gizmodo, Gothamist, Daring Fireball, WebProNews, Weblogsky, Examiner, Gawker, The Verge, Daily Mail, ABCNEWS, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Geekosystem, The Huffington Post, Digits, BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller, The Loop, Joho the Blog, Freedom to Tinker, Memex 1.1, Nerdcore and rc3.org
Tweets: @glennf, @xor and @gaberivera
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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The Laboratorium, Ars Technica, Guardian, SiliconANGLE, Crooked Timber and Errata Security
Tweets: @edbott and @alexstamos
See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Family of Hacktivist Aaron Swartz Accuses MIT, U.S. Attorney of Contributing to His Suicide — Aaron Swartz in 2008, with former Red Hat CEO Bob Young in the background (CreativeCommons) — Update 7:49 PT: Added comment from JSTOR. — The family and friends of Aaron Swartz …
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JSTOR, BostInno, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE and TheTechStorm
Tweets: @mikeisaac and @jayrosen_nyu
| Tim Lee / Wonkblog: |
Aaron Swartz, American hero — Paul Graham, the founder of angel investing firm Y Combinator, has mentored generations of Silicon Valley whiz kids. In an essay about hackers and the role they've played driving technology forward, he wrote that “hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking.
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SiliconANGLE, Open Gardens and Associated Press
| 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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Boing Boing and SplatF
| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
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| Economist: |
How did Lenovo become the world's biggest computer company? — How did Lenovo become the world's biggest computer company? — BEIJING | from the print edition — LENOVO started humbly. Its founders established the Chinese technology firm in 1984 with $25,000 and held early meetings in a guard shack.| 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 … | 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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The Next Web, Forbes, Examiner, US-CERT, VentureBeat, MacRumors and The Next Web. Tweets: @oracle
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Details Of Various Six Strikes Plans Revealed; May Create Serious Problems For Free WiFi — Ah, unintended consequences. TorrentFreak has been doing a fantastic job sussing out the details of how various ISPs are going to implement the infamous “six strikes” plan.
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ReadWrite, Business Insider and Electronista
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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