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February 19, 2013, 10:40 PM

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Reuters:

Apple, Mac computers hit by hackers who targeted Facebook — (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

This is the Site Likely Responsible For The Recent Major Tech Company Hacks. — Apple, Facebook, Twitter — all hacked. And there's probably more to come. — In the spate of large companies hacked in recent weeks, it seems that many of them have one thing in common.

More: BuzzFeed, Mercury News, The Verge, Electronista, Macgasm and Gizmodo

Bloomberg:

Malware Attack on Apple Said to Come From Eastern Europe — At least 40 companies including Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. were targeted in malware attacks linked to an Eastern European gang of hackers that is trying steal company secrets, two people familiar with the matter said.

More: PC Magazine, CNET, ZDNet, Businessweek, Security and Risk, Business Insider and SocialTimes

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

After hack, Apple releases Java security update for Mac users

More: CNN, MacRumors, The Next Web, TUAW, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, SlashGear and The Verge. Tweets: @reuters

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

HTC One unveiled: 4.7-inch 1080p display, 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600, UltraPixel camera, Android 4.1.2 with Sense 5 — Despite the abundant fanfare and critical acclaim, HTC's One X just couldn't quite mark the spot in 2012. No wonder, then, that the company's lopped off that extraneous letter …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Inside the HTC One: betting the company on two daring features

More: HTC Blog, CNET, PandoDaily, Reuters, GeekWire and Examiner

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Hands on and Impressions from the HTC One - Formerly M7

More: Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, Forbes, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Android Central and ABCNEWS

Steve Dent / Engadget:

HTC One coming to Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T in the US, arriving in UK on EE, Vodafone and O2

More: Sprint, Android Central, AndroidGuys, Mobile Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, SlashGear and TechCrunch

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Apple fixes Exchange (but not passcode unlock) bug with iOS 6.1.2 — iOS 6.1.2 brings a microscopic but important list of changes. — Apple has released the promised iOS 6.1.2 update today to fix the Exchange bugs that have been plaguing users since the release of iOS 6.1.

More: Computerworld, MacRumors, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, BGR, CNET, BGR, PadGadget, Softpedia News, iPhone Alley Spectrum, MacStories, Neowin and VentureBeat. Tweets: @stevekovach

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:

Exclusive: The Burger King and Jeep Hacker Is Probably This DJ From New England — It was just going to be another boring President's Day on the Internet, when along came a spastic, hilarious hacker with a taste for McDonald's, Gucci Mane, and caps lock. Is a criminal mastermind behind the @BurgerKing (and likely @Jeep) takeover?

More: BuzzFeed, ABCNEWS, VatorNews, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Daily Dot, Betabeat, CNET, VentureBeat, Digits and The Verge

Tweets: @cadillac, @safety, @samfbiddle, @mikeisaac, @digiphile, @danprimack and @panzer

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

US prepares economic countermeasures in light of recent cyberattacks — The recent rash of hacking attacks shows no sign of slowing — Apple today announced it had fallen victim to the trend — but the US government is preparing some measures to help address the situation.

More: CNET, The Next Web and Associated Press

Wall Street Journal:

China Lashes Back at Hacking Claims

More: Digital Dao, Hillicon Valley, PC Magazine, Associated Press and VentureBeat

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Windows Blue may have just hit milestone 1 — Summary: Alleged screen shots of Windows Blue have hit the Web just as Microsoft is said to have reached the half-way mark in the development of the Windows refresh expected this year. — The Windows team at Microsoft just completed …

More: Winaero, Business Insider, The Verge, WinBeta and Neowin

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

On Its Way to Going Private, Dell Beats Street's Expectations — In what may — or may not — turn out to be its final earnings report as a publicly held company, computing giant Dell just reported profits that beat the expectations of analysts. — Dell reported earnings of 40 cents per share …

More: Business Wire, Reuters, Forbes, The Next Web, Bloomberg, ZDNet, WebProNews and Electronista

Tweets: @danprimack and @reuters

Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal:

Dell Profit Slides 31% on Falling PC, Mobility Sales

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Ubuntu for tablets revealed with split screen multi-tasking, preview for Nexus slates coming this week — Here it is: the fourth and final piece of the Ubuntu puzzle. We've seen the OS on smartphones, on TVs and of course on desktops, but the tablet version has spent a little longer in its dressing room.

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Ubuntu phones won't ship till 2014, might be locked down by carriers

More: PhoneArena, The Next Web, internetnews.com and Pocket-lint

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire — On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia …

More: Business Insider

Sinead Carew / Reuters:

T-Mobile USA hopes for prepaid growth with GoSmart brand — (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. mobile provider, on Tuesday launched GoSmart Mobile, a nationwide prepaid wireless brand that will sell cellphone services to customers who want to pay for calls in advance.

More: CNET, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Electronista, PhoneArena, TmoNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint and The Verge

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Sunrise for iPhone: a next-generation calendar app plugged in to Facebook and Google — Foursquare alums design a world where everything connects to your calendar — “I looked at my iPhone, and I don't use any of the default apps anymore,” says Pierre Valade.

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, GigaOM, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable!. Tweets: @reneritchie

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Firefox 19 launches with desktop PDF viewer, Android themes and lower CPU limits that support 15m more phones — Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a built-in PDF viewer on the desktop and theme support on Google's mobile platform.

More: The Mozilla Blog, SlashGear, Lifehacker, Engadget, Computerworld, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, The H Open Source, The Verge, digitaltrends.com, Geek.com and ZDNet. Thanks:@alex

John Callaham / Neowin:

Microsoft offers clarity on Office 2013 and Office 365 install rights — There's been a lot of Internet chatter of late about the end-user license agreement for Office 2013, specifically the part where it only has one PC install license. Today, Microsoft offers some clarification on this issue on its official Office blog site.

More: The Microsoft Office Blog

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Catches Up to Demand for iPad Mini, Now ‘In Stock’ in Many Countries — Apple appears to have finally achieved supply-demand balance on its popular iPad mini, with the company's online stores for the United States, Canada, Australia, and a number of other countries now showing all models as “in stock” for immediate shipment.

More: CNET, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

Agam Shah / Computerworld:

Tilera developing chip with more than 100-plus cores — Company's latest 100-core chip announcement comes as it unveils 72-core processor — After a lull, the race to add more processor cores to chips continues. Tilera is developing a new chip that will have more than 100 processor cores …

More: CNET, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Inquirer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Demand Media Splits in Two — Spinning Off Domain Registrar Business From Media Unit — Demand Media said today that it planned to split its company in two parts, spinning off its domain business from its media one in a bid to better clarify the company to investors.

More: Demand Media, TechCrunch and Domain Name Wire. See also Mediagazer

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Nokia Music+ now live for US Lumia owners — After launching the service across the pond just a few short days ago, Nokia's now ready to make Music+ available for the US — confirming to us today its availability on Yankee soil. To recap, the paid subscription service ramps up the free app's offerings …

More: WMPoweruser and WinBeta

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