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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix in talks with cable providers to make its service available on set-top boxes  —  Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals  —  Online Video Service Would Be Available on Set-Top Boxes - Netflix Inc. is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast Corp …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Announces Update 3 For Windows Phone 8 With Larger Screens, More Live Tiles, Coming This Year  —  Today Microsoft announced its third update to Windows Phone 8.  This is the set of new features and upgrades that will carry the smartphone platform through the holiday sales cycle.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M... And (Finally?)  Gets Its Office In Israel  —  Big news for a Monday/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook.
Brad Molen / Engadget:
LG G Flex curved smartphone revealed in press renders, will launch next month (update: 6-inch display)  —  LG has admitted that “bendable and unbreakable” smartphone displays are already in production, and we've heard plenty of rumors about a device known as the G Flex which features the new tech.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
HTC One max official with 5.9-inch display and fingerprint scanner  —  HTC's long-rumored One max device has finally become official, and the numerous leaks were right on the money: it's a 5.9-inch enlargement of the HTC One, including the same Snapdragon 600 processor, same 4-megapixel UltraPixel camera, and much of the same design.
New York Times:
Financial, technical, managerial missteps led to government health portal troubles  —  From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal  —  WASHINGTON — In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration's new online insurance marketplace …
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Why US government IT fails so hard, so often
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Europe won't save you: Why e-mail is probably safer in the US  —  Last week, a United States federal appellate court unsealed a set of documents pertaining to Lavabit, the e-mail provider of choice for former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
More: The Verge.  Tweets: @hakantee
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Microsoft Mission Impossible  —  You're Microsoft's new CEO.  How do you like staring at the abyss between two mutually exclusive ways of making money?  The old business model, Windows and Office licensing, is going away.  The Devices and Services future puts you in direct competition …
Andrew Binstock / Dr. Dobb's All:
If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy  —  The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it.  —  A recurring prejudice in the forums where the cool kids hang out (Hacker News, Reddit, etc.) is against Java, the language.
Tweets: @grady_booch
Stewart Wilson / TechGeek:
D-Link Router backdoor vulnerability discovered  —  A rather worrying security vulnerability has been discovered which is affecting several D-Link branded modem routers.  Posted on a website dedicated to Embedded Device Hacking, /dev/ttyS0, the vulnerability was discovered …

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Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Interviews with 24 people reveal the tense relationship between President Biden and the New York Times, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, and a lack of trust

Laura Kukkonen / Columbia Journalism Review:
After a reporter for Aamulehti, Finland's second-largest daily, acknowledged in his autobiography that he fabricated stories, the paper removes 551 articles

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
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