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Exclusive: Watch Steve Jobs' First Demonstration of the Mac for the Public, Unseen Since 1984 — It's January, 1984. Steve Jobs, nattily attired in a double-breasted suit, is demonstrating Apple's breakthrough personal computer, Macintosh, before a packed room.
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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 …
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| Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits: |
For some, Twitter is becoming less about relevancy and more about one-liners — Valley of the Blahs: How Justin Bieber's Troubles Exposed Twitter's Achilles' Heel — At some point, Twitter and the rest of social media became less about wanting to share the news and more about wanting to be the news.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google and Samsung reach global patent cross-licensing agreement covering “the two companies' existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years” — Google and Samsung reach global patent license deal — In a move that could have big implications …
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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 …
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| 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 … | CB Insights: |
51 Startup Failure Post-Mortems … On his many failed experiments, Thomas Edison once said … And so while we have dug into the data behind startups that have died (as well as those acqui-hired) and found they usually die 20 months after raising financing and after having raised about $1.3 million …
| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Hackers Steal Law Enforcement Inquiry Documents from Microsoft — Recent Phishing Attacks Compromised Employee Email, Social Media Accounts at Microsoft — [Update] Microsoft on Friday said that attackers breached the email accounts of a “select number” of employees …
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| Matt Mullenweg: |
How WordPress has embodied and benefited from the principles of open source — The Four Freedoms — Eleven months before the U.S. declared war on Japan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said “As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone.”
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| 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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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn Weighs Plan for U.S. Plant — Taiwanese Tech Manufacturer Would Make Displays at U.S. Facility — TAIPEI— Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. , which assembles gadgets for Apple Inc. and other global technology firms, is evaluating a plan to build an advanced display manufacturing plant in the U.S., its chairman said.| Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times: |
Nine-year-old NSA website seeks to educate and recruit kids with cartoon characters, games — On Children's Website, N.S.A. Puts a Furry, Smiley Face on Its Mission — WASHINGTON — The turtle wearing a hat backward, baggy jeans and purple sunglasses looks just like other cartoon characters …
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| 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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