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February 24, 2013, 7:30 PM

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP announces Slate 7: the company's first Android tablet arrives in April for $169.99 — It's officially true: Hewlett-Packard is back in the mobile race. Today, HP is announcing its first Android product: the HP Slate 7. But it looks like the company won't be making a splash right away …

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Tweets: @stuarticus, @nateingraham, @epro, @hp, @reckless and @zpower

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

HP Slate 7 hands-on (update: video) — Well, this might just be the biggest news to come out of Mobile World Congress. Long after discontinuing the TouchPad (and the rest of its mobile devices, for that matter) HP is back with a new tablet. This time, though, it runs not webOS, but an old safety: Android.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, Gizmodo, Examiner and Technology Personalized

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP building multiple tablets this year: ‘we want to be the number one computer vendor’ — HP's Slate 7 is just the beginning. The company sees the writing on the wall: if you add in all the iPad sales, Apple — not HP — is selling the most computers these days.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com and PalmAddict

The Mozilla Blog:

Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web on Mobile with Firefox OS — Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power the world's first Open Web Devices. — These operators include …

More: Mozilla Press Center, USA Today, Gizmodo, Engadget, AllThingsD, BBC, The Next Web, CNET, NYT Bits, Mozilla Press Center, IntoMobile, ZDNet, Neowin, Engadget, Forbes, Engadget, WinBeta, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Digits and Pocketnow

Tweets: @tobiaspeggs, @edbott, @andreascon and @theromit

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Mozilla CEO expects Firefox OS phones for US in 2014

More: Engadget

Eric Limer / Gizmodo:

Meet the ZTE Open, The First Official Firefox OS Phone

More: The Verge, Engadget, The Verge, Geek.com, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, CNET and Pocketnow

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace …

More: AllThingsD, Reuters and The Verge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft preparing Windows Blue public preview with significant search improvements — Microsoft is working towards a public preview version of Windows Blue. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the software giant is aggressively targeting a summer launch date for Windows Blue …

More: CNET, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, SuperSite for Windows, WinBeta, Neowin, Business Insider, Softpedia News and CodenameWindows. Tweets: @kendallmiller

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers — Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy activist Jonathan Mayer.

More: Adweek, Web Policy, CNET, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, PC World, gHacks Technology News, Neowin and OSDir.com

Tweets: @mikezaneis and @gunnr

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Google's Android Reborn as Network-Hacking Kit — The folks at security tools company Pwnie Express have built a tablet that can bash the heck out of corporate networks. Called the Pwn Pad, it's a full-fledged hacking toolkit built atop Google's Android operating system.

More: San Francisco Chronicle, Gizmodo and Android Community

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Huawei Ascend P2 hitting Europe in Q2 for 399 euros, we go hands-on (update: video) — Just ahead of Huawei's press event, Huawei's treated us to an early viewing of its new 8.4-millimeter smartphone, the Ascend P2. With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera …

More: The Verge, Huawei, Inquirer, CNET, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Next Web, LAPTOP Magazine, AnandTech, Tech in Asia, Mashable!, The Full Signal, AndroidGuys, MobileSyrup.com, IntoMobile, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET and Electronista

Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:

The Incredible Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation—And Maybe More — The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn't sound Australian. — I couldn't detect an accent.

More: The Verge, Yahoo! News and Neowin

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Monday — During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their a plan to warn and “punish” BitTorrent pirates. — The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information …

More: Mashable!, Electronista, Gizmodo, The Verge and TECH.BLORGE.com

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

YouTube denies NASCAR takedown of horrific Daytona Speedway crash video — With the thousands of automatic takedown notices for illegally uploaded videos flooding Google's inbox, it's nice to know that the legitimately bad requests by media companies aren't blindly approved.

More: Erik Wemple, paidContent, CNET, AllThingsD, Forbes, Policy Blog, SlashGear, Lost Remote and Mashable!. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Analysis: The near impossible battle against hackers everywhere — (Reuters) - Dire warnings from Washington about a “cyber Pearl Harbor” envision a single surprise strike from a formidable enemy that could destroy power plants nationwide, disable the financial system or cripple the U.S. government.

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