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March 31, 2013, 11:55 AM

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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy — SAY you've come across a discount online retailer promising a steal on hand-stitched espadrilles for spring. You start setting up an account by offering your e-mail address — but before you can finish, there's a ping on your phone. A text message.

More: Stowe Boyd. Tweets: @smwat and @pkafka

Luke O'Neil / Slate:

Boston police catfishing indie rockers: Cops pose as punks on the Internet. — The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city's most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows. — As anyone who's watched a single crime story on TV or film knows, undercover detective work is dangerous business.

More: Boing Boing, Gawker, Gizmodo and ANIMAL

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Google's ‘If I Had Glass’ winners list dominated by celebrities, popular Twitter accounts — Google's “If I Had Glass” competition has always been a public affair: applications were submitted using a hashtag on Twitter and Google+, and winners offered the opportunity to be among …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Forbes, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Marketing Land, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, A VC, Betabeat, Kotaku and Ars Technica

Tweets: @bradhutchings and @markgurman

Hank Green:

Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole — For those of you who don't know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube's “Original Channel” funding initiative. We used that money to start Crash Course and SciShow. We were extremely excited to get the chance to have some real capital …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life — Constant, close contact with your friends. That's the promise of a “Facebook phone.” The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement that sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes …

More: GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Pocketnow, Redmond Pie, Tech Shout!, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Guardian, Digits and Computerworld

MG Siegler / ParisLemon:

The “Facebook Phone” Lives

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Craig Mod / paidContent:

The deal Goodreads should've struck (hint: it wasn't with Amazon) — Goodreads, the popular social network and review site for book lovers, is now part of Amazon. Imagine if it had instead paired up with Readmill, which offers a superior user reading experience.

Junko Yoshida / EE Times:

Exclusive: Lenovo to design own chips — BEIJING, China- Lenovo, the second largest smartphone supplier in China, will get into the chip design business with a special focus on smartphones and tablets, EE Times has learned. — The company, which has maintained a small IC design team consisting …

More: Android Authority. Tweets: @krewell

Morgen Peck / IEEE Spectrum:

Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion — Bitcoin, the world's first open source cryptographic currency, which has been on a tear since the beginning of this year, set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92.

More: Fred Wilson Dot VC, SlashGear, The Verge, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! Finance and Fox News

New York Times:

After Cyberattack, Sven Olaf Kamphuis Is at Heart of Investigation — Sven Olaf Kamphuis calls himself the “minister of telecommunications and foreign affairs for the Republic of CyberBunker.” Others see him as the Prince of Spam. — Mr. Kamphuis, who is actually Dutch …

More: SlashGear and CircleID. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Edward Felten / Slate:

DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts security research — The outdated copyright law doesn't just hurt consumers—it cripples researchers. — It was hard to believe, but the student insisted it was true. He had discovered that compact discs from a major record company, Sony BMG …

Tweets: @binarybits

Kevin Bostic / AppleInsider:

Leaked roadmap shows off BlackBerry's new iPad competitor, phablet — Canadian manufacturer BlackBerry appears to be readying another go at the tablet sector, as an image purporting to be a leaked product roadmap shows a potential iPad competitor slated for a late 2013 release.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Mobile & Apps and Electronista

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M — Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland. Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo …

More: Digital Media Wire and Business Insider. Thanks:@utekkare

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