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October 13, 2013, 9:40 PM

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Why US government IT fails so hard, so often  —  The rocky launch of the Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov is the most visible evidence at the moment of how hard it is for the federal government to execute major technology projects.  But the troubled “Obamacare” …
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 …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Coming from Apple in 2014: 12-inch Retina MacBook, sharper iPad, cheaper iMac?  —  According to typically-reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, Apple has a slew of new products in the works for 2014.  The analyst has summarized his expectations for these new products in a new research note …
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
In a Mood?  Call Center Agents Can Tell  —  IN a YouTube clip from one of Steve Jobs's last interviews, he appears to be enjoying reminiscing about how he first hit upon the idea for the keyboardless tablet that eventually became the iPad.  —  “I had this idea of being able to get rid of the keyboard …
More: FortuneTweets: @qhardy and @drmabuse
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Bilton Book: Twitter's Dick Costolo Was Fired (And Rehired) in 2010  —  Twitter's founding tale keeps getting more and more complicated.  —  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was briefly fired from the company by an advisor to the board in 2010, according to a new book detailing the early, tumultuous days of the microblogging service.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google CIO Ben Fried on the company's internal tools and restrictions  —  Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works  —  It was the former Google employee's first day out in the real world.  He removed the enterprise security settings from his iPhone, and installed the apps he wasn't allowed …
More: SlashGearTweets: @dtunkelang
AFP:
Brazil announces secure email to counter US spying  —  Brasilia — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States and other countries.
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 …
More: /dev/ttyS0, The Register and TechSpotTweets: @e_kasperskyThanks:@terencehuynh

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