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Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity — Unsubstantiated statements implicate US Secret Service in Swartz's prosecution and break Wikileaks' own ‘doxxing’ rules — Aaron Swartz died a week ago. A public memorial service in New York City will be held later today.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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After Aaron: how an antiquated law enables the government's war on hackers, activists, and you — At the center of Aaron Swartz's controversial case is a 1986 anti-hacking law gone horribly wrong — One day back in the early 1970s, two young computer miscreants named Steve Jobs … | Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy: |
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Kim Dotcom's Mega Is Now Open To the Public — Mega, Kim Dotcom's big, flashy new copyright-dismantling file-sharing/storage site with encryption up the wazoo has finally launched. You can head on over and sign up right now. That is, so long as the site can hold under the crazy traffic.| Chris Keall / Ars Technica: |
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How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala — Aubrey Johnson, a former Color employee, shares two stories behind the scenes at Apple's acquisitions of both Color and Lala — both firms were founded by Bill Nguyen before being acquired by Apple for two very different reasons.| The Register: |
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Google should be ashamed for paying carriers to handle its traffic — The concept of net neutrality means different things to different people. Some see tiered access pricing for connectivity as the key debate point, while others are more concerned with the idea of content providers having … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
“Downloaded”: Napster documentary on Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning premiering at the SXSW Film Festival — The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference has announced that the Napster documentary “Downloaded” will be premiering this March during its Film Festival.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery — We've learned today that mobile news-delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously. The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to follow … | Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: |
YouTube halts funding for WSJ and Reuters channels; Reuters cuts positions — YouTube has cut off funding to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that formed part of its $150 million dollar plan to help launch more than 100 premium channels. The termination of the one-year deals … | Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
'We thought we'd sell 1,000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi — Summary: The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a coding revolution. Here's the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and development to its plans for the future. — Nick Heath
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
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 …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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