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February 15, 2013, 11:05 PM

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Facebook Security / Facebook:

Protecting People On Facebook — Facebook, like every significant internet service, is frequently targeted by those who want to disrupt or access our data and infrastructure. As such, we invest heavily in preventing, detecting, and responding to threats that target our infrastructure …

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Tweets: @mikeelgan, @tim, @qhardy, @thematthewkeys, @rww and @jwherrman

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit — Facebook officials said they recently discovered that computers belonging to several of its engineers had been hacked using a zero-day Java attack that installed a collection of previously unseen malware.

More: The Verge, digitaltrends.com, Marketing Land, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Engadget, GigaOM, AllFacebook, Daily Dot, Inside Facebook, Digits, Forbes, The Next Web, SocialTimes and Electronista. Tweets: @jwherrman

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

To get products into more hands, Google will open its own stores by the end of the year — An extremely reliable source has confirmed to us that Google is in the process of building stand-alone retail stores in the U.S. and hopes to have the first flagship Google Stores open for the holidays in major metropolitan areas.

More: The Next Web, BGR, The Register, Computerworld, CNET, GigaOM, Macgasm, VentureBeat, Mobile Marketing Watch, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Droid Life, The Verge, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, Pocketnow and iClarified. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Skype Video Messages launches for Mac, iPhone, and Android (hands-on) — Microsoft is launching a new Video Messages feature for Skype this week. The company has been working on the feature for a number of months, having previously revealed it a little early, and it debuts on iOS, Android, and Mac.

More: Pocket-lint, AllThingsD, Engadget, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, CITEworld, MobileBurn.com, SiliconANGLE, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, TruTower, ReadWrite, Pocketnow, GigaOM, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, T3 News, Inquirer, LiveSide.net, MacRumors, SocialTimes, VoIP Watch, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Softpedia News. Tweets: @m4tt

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft is forcing Messenger users over to Skype starting April 8th

More: Skype Blogs, TruTower, Electronista, WebProNews, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, CNET, Daily Dot, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, The Next Web, BetaNews, Neowin and Ars Technica

Wall Street Journal:

Next Sony PlayStation to Stream Games — Sony Corp. is planning to offer technology to stream games to its next videogame console, people familiar with the company's plans say, alongside other enhancements to bolster its position in the market. — The new technology, to be unveiled Wednesday along …

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, All Games Beta, Ubergizmo, GamesIndustry International, Polygon, destructoid, Joystiq and Kotaku. Tweets: @aegies

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

The Fall TV Lineup May Include Apple Dominating Gaming — What I'm about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that's fine. Because in a few years, I'll be right and you'll look silly. — While everyone is focused on the next generation video game consoles from Nintendo …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, BGR, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, Apple Bitch and ParisLemon

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Big changes in Office 2013 and Office 365 test Microsoft customers' loyalty — Summary: Microsoft's new license terms for retail editions of Office 2013 have received intense scrutiny this week. But those changes are just part of a much larger story. Look closely at Office 2013 …

More: InfoWorld, Yahoo! News and blog.chron.com

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Ecomom is liquidating and shutting down; investors are stunned — The story of Ecomom keeps getting more stunning and more tragic. PandoDaily has learned that the company has just dealt its investors yet another blow. Just two and a half weeks after founder and CEO Jody Sherman stunned …

More: Betabeat

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

LinkedIn overhauls its jobs service with a fresh design and better discovery features — Finding a job can be difficult. We've all been there: going onto sites like Craigslist, Monster.com, Yahoo, and LinkedIn. And while there are certainly open positions out there, finding the one that matches our dream job can be difficult.

More: Official LinkedIn Blog and PandoDaily

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Posterous shuttering for good on April 30th to focus on Twitter, offering data downloads until then — Blogging platform Posterous has announced via its company blog that it will be shutting down as of April 30th. The company was acquired by Twitter just under a year ago.

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Who needs HP and Dell? Facebook now designs all its own servers — Nearly two years ago, Facebook unveiled what it called the Open Compute Project. The idea was to share designs for data center hardware like servers, storage, and racks so that companies could build their own equipment instead …

More: FierceCIO:TechWatch News

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Does Apple really assign engineers to “fake” projects as a loyalty test? — “Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them”, blared a headline—and many others like it—last January. In the Apple-watching world, it has since become common wisdom that the company assigns …

More: The Loop, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, TUAW, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Touch-based Ubuntu preview coming February 21st, will work on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 — It's not like we didn't have ample warning, so by now anyone wanting to try out the new Ubuntu smartphone OS should have gotten hold of a Galaxy Nexus to be their test device. Still don't have one?

More: TechCrunch, Electronista, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, IntoMobile, WebProNews and Pocketnow

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Dreaded Auto-Play Video Ads Could Be Coming To Facebook, VP Confirms — TV commercials that automatically play could soon hit Facebook's news feed. This week Facebook VP of Business David Fischer admitted auto-play video ads might be distracting, but said “I believe there are ways we could do it.”

More: Macgasm and AllFacebook

Chris Burritt / Bloomberg:

Best Buy Makes Price Match Permanent to Win Back Clients — Best Buy Co. will make permanent its holiday price-matching policy to get shoppers to stop using its stores for scouting products they later buy online elsewhere. — The year-round policy, designed to end the practice known as …

More: The Verge and BBY

Kelly Fiveash / The Register:

Facebook in futile attempt to block perverts from Graph Searching for teens — Flawed system relies on kids - and adults - being honest about their age — Facebook has attempted to flatten fears about perverts using the company's Graph Search function to prey on teenagers on the network …

More: CNN, GadgeTell, Wired, InfoWorld, ABCNEWS and AllFacebook

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

FlightCar brings the sharing economy to airport car rentals, launches at SFO with $570k in Seed funding — On the scale of frighteningly ambitious startup ideas, taking responsibility of a stranger's car and handing it over to a second stranger is pretty high up there.

More: TechCrunch, nbcnews.com, AllThingsD and FinSMEs

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