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| David Gelernter / Wired: |
The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It — People ask what the next web will be like, but there won't be a next web. — The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It's already happening, and it all began with the lifestream …
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ZDNet, ROUGH TYPE and Stowe Boyd
Tweets: @miguelrios, @_mstevenson, @stevesi, @marshallk, @stevenlevy and @wiredopinion
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Path and the FTC — Today the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it reached a settlement pending court approval with Path regarding alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA). The gist of the FTC's complaint is this: early in Path's history …
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VatorNews, Skift, App Advice, The Verge, The Next Web, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Guardian, The Next Web, ValueWalk, SlashGear, The Verge, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, Hillicon Valley, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Google, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, Forbes, Business Insider, Macgasm, MacRumors, nbcnews.com, Mashable!, Engadget, Computerworld and digitaltrends.com
| Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law — Outdated rules and overzealous regulators mean kids can't use Path. Stop COPPA! — Via: path.com — The Federal Trade Commission levied a $800,000 fine on the social networking service Path Friday morning for having, among other things … | Tony Romm / Politico: |
House puts Spotify on mute — Spotify apparently hit a wrong note with the House's Internet overlords, who recently blocked the chamber's Web users from listening to the famed music-streaming service. — While Spotify isn't a peer-to-peer program along the lines of Napster …
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Techdirt, The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider and Mashable!
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Chinese hackers suspected in attack on The Post's computers — A sophisticated cyberattack targeted The Washington Post in an operation that resembled intrusions against other major American news organizations and that company officials suspect was the work of Chinese hackers, people familiar with the incident said.
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The Verge, Guardian, SecurityWeek, CNET, Gizmodo, SecurityWeek, Daily Mail, The Verge and Associated Press
Tweets: @ericfish85 and @gaberivera
See also Mediagazer| Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times: |
After Jody Sherman death, tech community seeks dialogue on suicide — Silicon Beach is mourning the death of entrepreneur and Ecomom co-founder Jody Sherman this week. Sherman, 47, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. Since his death Monday, several L.A. tech bloggers … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom launches Mega vulnerability reward program, offering up to $13,500 per bug — Kim Dotcom has officially launched his Mega vulnerability reward program that was announced last week. As we reported earlier, the founder of Mega, the newly launched file storage service …
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MEGA, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, New York Times, SlashGear and The Register
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With “Articles Related To” — Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with “Articles Related To...”.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pair, The Mobile App For Two, Buys UK's Cupple And Rebrands As Couple — Tenthbit, the Y Combinator-backed mobile app studio behind the couples app Pair, is doubling down (literally) on its business ambitions: The company today is announcing that it has bought Cupple, a UK-based rival mobile app … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Rep Zoe Lofgren Continues To Improve 'Aaron's Law' Via Reddit — A few weeks ago, we wrote about Rep. Zoe Lofgren announcing plans to via Reddit, to introduce CFAA reform, called “Aaron's Law.” Since then, Lofgren has taken into account numerous concerns and thoughts from various stakeholders …
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Ars Technica, Wired, The Next Web and Electronic Frontier Foundation
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Airbnb could be banned in Amsterdam: Local authorities are now hunting for illegal hotels — Following legal issues across the US, Airbnb is facing serious conflicts with the local government in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. — Airbnb's issues in Amsterdam have been ongoing; in fact … Thanks:@harrisonweber
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Takes 3 Of Top 5 Spots In U.S. Mobile Phone Sales For Q4 2012, Says NPD — Apple has managed to nab three of the top 5 spots for the top-selling mobile phones in the U.S. during Q4 2012 according to the NPD Group, with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 ranking first, third and fourth, respectively.| Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire: |
China May (or May Not) Be Behind the Twitter Hack — You may not have heard, but roughly 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised by hackers. There's a theory that — if you read between the lines — Twitter is implying the Chinese are to blame for compromising their security.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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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.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
Unison's blog:
“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).
“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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