Techmeme: “Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

February 23, 2013, 9:04 PM

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What to Expect When You Are Expecting a Lot of News Out of Barcelona — Mobile World Congress doesn't really get going until the weekend. — But here at AllThingsD, we want you to have a pretty good idea what to expect even before things kick off in Barcelona.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 official: 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad, 1280 x 800 display, HSPA+ 21, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 — We knew another Note was coming. After all, Samsung Mobile head JK Shin confirmed the news back in January. But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the tablet's finally been made official.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

“Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More — Courtesy of a plethora of very irked Yahoo employees, here is the internal memo sent to the company about a new rule rolled out today by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees …

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Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook? — It's tempting to read Jodi Kantor's Times story about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new Lean In book and accompanying female-empowerment movement as a prelude to a run for public office, and many have done exactly that.

More: Business Insider and Quartz. Tweets: @karaswisher

Jodi Kantor / New York Times:

Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement — Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”

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Matt Thomlinson / Microsoft Security Response Center:

Recent Cyberattacks — As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. — Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a statement during the initial information gathering process.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Microsoft suffers from same hacking attack as Apple, Facebook, small number of computers infected

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Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Falcon Pro Hits 100K User Token Limit - Another Twitter Client Bites The Dust — In case you hadn't heard, back in August of last year Twitter changed the rules for their API, limiting developers to 100,000 individual user tokens for outside apps (or 200% of then-totals, if the app already had more than 100,000 users).

More: The Verge, GadgeTell, Droid Life, SlashGear and Ausdroid

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Zain Shauk / Houston Chronicle:

Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears — Malicious software unintentionally downloaded by offshore oil workers has incapacitated computer networks on some rigs and platforms, exposing gaps in security that could pose serious risks to people and the environment, cybersecurity professionals told the Houston Chronicle.

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Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months — Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic. The latest plan is let users request specific articles …

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Donna Tam / CNET:

Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile — The social network recently fixed a bug discovered by a developer who demonstrated how the loophole let him take over other people's accounts. — A security hacker recently found a flaw in a Facebook system that allowed developers …

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John Ribeiro / Computerworld:

Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate — The company also reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services — Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.

More: Forbes, PC World, threatpost, Forbes, The Register, Neowin, Softpedia News, The Diversity Blog, ZDNet, ReadWrite, The Verge, Wired, GigaOM and MSDN Blogs

Tweets: @halowaypoint, @majornelson, @office365 and @windowsazure

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

New Retina MacBook Pro Processor Bumps Offer Minor 3-5% Performance Improvements — Following last week's introduction of new processors for the Retina MacBook Pro lineup, Primate Labs has analyzed benchmarks coming in from the new machines through the company's popular Geekbench 2 software.

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