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Michaels investigating possible “data security attack” after fraudulent credit card purchases lead back to its stores — Sources: Card Breach at Michaels Stores — Multiple sources in the banking industry say they are tracking a pattern of fraud on cards that were all recently used …
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Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook on NSA, What's Next as Mac Turns 30 — While secrecy is part of the excitement at Apple headquarters in Silicon Valley — today marked 30 years since Steve Jobs told America via TV that something big was coming — CEO Tim Cook said secrecy in the form … | Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love — Chris McKinlay was folded — into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA's math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morning, the optimal time to squeeze cycles out of the supercomputer … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Chromebooks accounted for 19% of U.S. K-12 mobile computer purchases in 2013 — Chromebooks Take Other Mobile PCs to School — The Inexpensive Laptops Grab Fifth of U.S. Educational Purchases — Chromebooks have come from nowhere to grab nearly a fifth of U.S. school purchases of mobile computers …
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KPCB founder Tom Perkins compares “rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent” to Nazi war on Jews — Silicon Valley Legend Compares Techie Backlash to Nazi Rampage — Silicon Valley has never been known for its appreciation of subtleties.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Bay area tech companies should give back and promote good public policy in their community — It Doesn't Have To Be This Way — There is a story being told about us here in the tech industry in San Francisco — that we are entitled, or that we are oblivious. I don't believe that's true.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Moves Toward Expanded Mobile-Payment Service — Apple Inc. laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit cards on file through its iTunes stores.
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| Graham Smith / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: |
King removes flash game from web in response to cloning allegations, denies infringing IP — Flash Developer Alleges King “Cloned” Their Game — Update 2: And there's now a statement from King.com on the subject, also at the end of the post. — Update: There's now a response from Matthew Cox … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
App.net Launches Backer, A Bitcoin-Friendly Crowdfunding Engine For Individual Software Features — As the popularity of crowdfunding grows ever larger, an interesting new trend has started popping up: developers, curious if a new feature is worth adding to their products …
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| Tim Wu / Culture Desk: |
Review: “The Internet's Own Boy”, a documentary on Aaron Swartz's life and death — The New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance — “The Internet's Own Boy,” a documentary about the life and death of Aaron Swartz, premièred on Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation.| Benedict Evans: |
As tech, media, and telecom collide, ignorance of any one sector leads to failures like Joost and WiMax — Ignorance — “However vast any person's basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read.” - Italo Calvino
Tweets: @nathanchubbard, @h4ryb, @stevesi, @minethatdata, @mccarthyryanj, @rubenharris, @jchengwsj and @soundboy
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
When Gmail Went Down, Yahoo Poked Fun On Twitter, Then Apologized — Gmail was down briefly today, and Yahoo — which suffered its own and much longer-lasting email woes recently — still decided it was a good opportunity to have some fun, tweeting about the failure then later apologizing.
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