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January 26, 2014, 12:15 AM

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

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 …

More: CNET, Reuters, Ars Technica, SlashGear, USA Today, usnews.nbcnews.com, The Verge, VentureBeat, New York Times, CNNMoney.com, Wired, PC Magazine, WebProNews and Help Net Security

Tweets: @briankrebs, @abrams and @ldignan

ABC News:

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 …

More: Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, The Verge and Lifehacker. Tweets: @moorehn

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 …

More: BGR, Digits and OStatic blogs

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

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.

More: Anil Dash, Mercury News, Webomatica, ReadWrite, Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair

Tweets: @jasonkincaid, @kevinmarks, @stephenfleming, @stephenfleming, @martinsfp, @anildash and @sg

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.

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 …

More: App.net and The Next Web

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.

More: Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Variety, The Verge, Mashable and Reuters. Tweets: @knappb

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.

More: Valleywag, Slate, Re/code, The Switch, Government Technology News, USA Today, GeekWire, Mashable, I4U News, Forbes, eWeek, tech.co, The Register and TechCrunch

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