Techmeme: Accused LulzSec hacker draws comparisons to Aaron Swartz from jail (Jeff Blagdon/The Verge)

February 22, 2013, 3:50 PM

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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates — Up close and personal with Google's visionary new computer — The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google's NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity.

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — There is perhaps no one more excited for Google Glass than Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. — On Wednesday at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay medical campus, the Facebook CEO met …

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500 — Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that it hopes to have a …

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest — Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.

More: Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, Washington Post, Telegraph and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Mikkel Svane / Zendesk.com:

We've been hacked — We feel that it's important our customers receive an update from us on a recent security situation. We have an investigation underway and do not have the answer to every question. — We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week.

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New York Post:

NYPD forms dedicated team to catch thieves who steal iPhones and iPads — iTheft busters — The theft of Apple devices is so rampant in New York that a team of cops has been assigned to work with the tech giant to get the stolen gadgets back, The Post has learned.

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Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:

Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models-sources — (Reuters) - Nokia is shifting the focus of its turnaround strategy to regaining domination of cheaper handsets after a stuttering campaign to catch up with Apple and Samsung in high-end smartphones. — Company sources said it would …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Admits Critical Bugs Caused Page Reach To Be Misreported For Months — While trying to speed up its iOS and Android apps, Facebook accidentally stripped out too much data about news feed posts by Pages. This caused Page Insights to be misreported, leading admins to believe …

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Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google buildings in Silicon Valley affected by toxic substances left behind by computer chip makers — Two buildings owned by Google in Silicon Valley are being exposed to toxic vapors at the moment, according to a news report published today by CBS. — TCE, also known as trichloroethylene vapors …

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Morgan Stanley expects 6% dividend, cheaper ‘iPhone mini’ after meeting with Apple CFO — Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty recently met with Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, and came away with the impression that Apple will likely increase cash return to shareholders …

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Galen M. Gruman / InfoWorld:

Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone — The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone — but you may not want to install it yourself Ubuntu Touch's home screen Developers got their first hands-on peek yesterday of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch OS for mobile phones …

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Ubuntu touch preview can now be installed on Nexus phones, tablets

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Accused LulzSec hacker draws comparisons to Aaron Swartz from jail — Jeremy Hammond faces 30 years-to-life for his role in Stratfor hack — Alleged LulzSec hacker and political activist Jeremy Hammond issued a statement from a New York jail on Thursday, comparing his own case …

More: Guardian, CNET, PC Magazine, The Sparrow Project, Salon and Softpedia News

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Judge grants Greenlight's motion to red light Apple shareholder vote … According to a report from Reuters, following a request from Greenlight Capital, a judge has blocked Apple from going through with a shareholder proposal that would require a shareholder vote before issuing preferred stock.

More: Reuters

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google I/O registration begins March 13th at 7am PST, requires Google+ and Google Wallet accounts — Google has announced the registration dates for this year's I/O conference, which will be held on May 15-17, 2013 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Registration for the conference will open on March 13th at 7AM PST.

More: BGR and Gotta Be Mobile

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms] — Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (€59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent.

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Google's Offer Extensions rolling out within a week, integrating deals with search — Google's Offer Extensions, which pair ads in search result pages with Groupon-like deals and special discounts, is set to roll out to all advertisers by the end of February, according to an ad industry insider.

More: Search Engine Land, Internet Marketing Blog, Business Insider, Search Engine Watch and memeburn

Valéry Marchive / ZDNet:

France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country — Summary: French president François Hollande wants very high-speed broadband to reach every household in the country by 2023 - a plan that will need private as well as public investment. — Valéry Marchive

More: VentureBeat and Reuters

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Director Of Product Blake Ross Is Leaving Facebook — Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross is leaving the company, he announced in a Facebook post yesterday afternoon. — For those of you who weren't reading TechCrunch in 2007, Firefox co-founder Ross and Joe Hewitt came to Facebook through …

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBCU Spent $195 Million To Buy Back Half Of MSNBC.com — Thanks to Comcast's 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, we now know how much NBCUniversal spent to buy back the 50% of MSNBC.com that was owned by Microsoft. — The total purchase price for Microsoft's stake was $195 million …

More: GeekWire, PandoDaily and Neowin. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

PayPal Here Is Coming To The UK, Its First Mobile Payment Market In Europe, Armed With A New Way To Read Your Card — Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer …

More: The PayPal Blog, Reuters, ZDNet, CNET, GadgeTell, Inquirer, IntoMobile, The Register, GigaOM, The Next Web, Electronista, Engadget, Financial Times and Pocket-lint

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

HTC settles with FTC on charges it failed to secure logging data, exploitable flaws on millions of devices — HTC America has settled a case with the FTC today over failing to patch a vulnerability that allowed access to data from logging applications like Carrier IQ and its own tool called HTC Loggers.

More: Federal Trade Commission, CNET, Ars Technica, Digital Media Wire, Computerworld, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Hillicon Valley, ZDNet, Washington Post, The Verge, Federal Trade Commission, Reuters and Washington Post

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