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Secret British spy unit mounted cyberattacks against Anonymous and LulzSec, Snowden docs show — War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show — A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain's enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documen...
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| Gabriella Coleman / Wired: |
The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us — The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.
Tweets: @adrianchen, @ggreenwald and @wiredopinion
| Eric Pfanner / New York Times: |
Samsung plans relatively low-key Unpacked 5 event, won't include eye scanner in Galaxy S5 — Samsung Reins In the Theatrics for Galaxy S5 — TOKYO — Don't expect a lot of singing and dancing when Samsung Electronics introduces the next generation of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, this month.
| Jason Fried / 37signals: |
37signals changes name to Basecamp, will focus solely on that product, may spin off or sell Campfire and Highrise — Two big announcements. — This year marks 37signals' 15th year in business. And today is Basecamp's 10th birthday. We have a lot to celebrate, and two exciting announcements to share.
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Long-Time Google Ads Exec Susan Wojcicki is YouTube's New Boss — Susan Wojcicki, SVP of advertising for Google, will lead its YouTube unit, sources said. — The news was first reported as likely by The Information late Tuesday night. — Wojcicki was employee No. 16 at Google … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple faces $2 billion damages claim in Mannheim over wireless patents — trial on Tuesday (Feb. 11) — On Tuesday (February 11, 2014), Apple will have to defend itself in a German patent trial against a damages claim amounting to 1.57 billion euros ($2.12 billion), plus prejudgment interest …
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Facing 228 unresolved patent claims, Apple joins Google in asking SCOTUS to curb patent abuse — Apple Joins Google in Pressing Court to Curb Patent Abuse — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG), saying they're tired of being slapped with frivolous patent suits that cost millions …
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Inside the Microsoft CEO Search: How Satya Nadella Was Chosen — Gates, Ballmer and Board Debated as They Went From 100 Candidates to One — The search for a new Microsoft Corp. leader was taking its toll. — It had been five months since Steve Ballmer announced he was stepping down as chief executive … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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Google Ends EU Antitrust Probe Pledging Rival Links — Google Inc. (GOOG), the owner of the world's largest search engine, reached a settlement to end the European Union's three-year antitrust probe after it offered to display results from rival search services.
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Sony looking to sell PC business to investment fund — TOKYO — Sony is in talks to unload its sluggish personal computer operations to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners, part of a business overhaul designed to shift focus to smartphones, The Nikkei learned Tuesday.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs wanted Sony VAIOs to run OS X — Ex-Sony president recalls an unforgettable golf course meeting — In 2005, Steve Jobs' announcement that Apple's computers would be moving from PowerPC to Intel surprised many. OS X had been living “a secret double life” with Intel for five years … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $125M From TPG, Salesforce At A $825M Valuation — Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $125 million in new funding in a round led by TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG.
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Amazon Lays Foundation for Giant Video Advertising Business — In many ways, Amazon's advertising business still remains a mystery. The company doesn't break out the size of it in its earning reports, and Amazon exec presentations on it at industry events are often low on details.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple hires sleep research expert Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips for iWatch team — Joining a longlist of Apple executives and new hires thought to be working on Apple's highly anticipated iWatch project, the company has recently picked up Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips Research … | John Brownlee / Fast Co Design: |
IBM offers companies tools to apply AI for analyzing their customers' social media streams — IBM's Next Big Thing: Psychic Twitter Bots — Using some of the same technologies that allowed the Watson natural language supercomputer to conquer Jeopardy, IBM's next step … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Twitter's First Big Earnings Test Comes Today. Here Are the Numbers to Watch. — Remember when Facebook went public, and its stock tanked? And remember when Facebook announced its first earnings report, and its stock dropped some more? — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is trying to reverse that playbook …
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| Joab Jackson / Computerworld: |
IBM questions whether D-Wave's experimental computer truly relies on quantum mechanics — IBM questions the performance of D-Wave's quantum computer — IBM charges that a D-Wave quantum computer run by Google actually relies on good old-fashioned classical physics
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HTC to redesign phones after losing Nokia patent suit — Summary: Some handsets will be modified to sidestep a German court ruling, in order to minimize disruption to customers while it appeals against the decision. — HTC will redesign some of its smartphones after losing a court ruling …
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Google goes to war on ‘fraudulent’ YouTube video views — Says inflated counts are misleading fans and 'undermining one of YouTube's most important and unique qualities' — YouTube visitors watch more than six billion hours of video every month, but not all of those eyeballs are real.| Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Dell, AMD unveil 64-bit proof-of-concept ARM microservers — AMD, Dell See Opportunity in ARM Server Market — A close look at the AMD Opteron ARM development kit on display at the Open Compute Summit last week. (Photo: Colleen Miller) — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Just two months …
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Orchestrate Replaces Multiple NoSQL Databases With A Single API — The days when developers built their applications on a single database are long over. Many services today use a variety of databases - and especially NoSQL databases - to power the different aspects of their applications.| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Elementum spun out of Flextronics, gets $44M to put mobile supply chain software in the cloud — Flextronics Spins Off Startup to Put Supply Chain Software in the Cloud — Using software to track the movements of goods through global supply chains is one of the last areas to move to the cloud.
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comScore: Apple ends 2013 with 41.8% US smartphone share, Samsung hits 26.1%; Android back to losing share — In the US, Apple's dominance as the top smartphone OEM hit a new high at the end of last year: 41.8 percent. Samsung gained share faster than its main competitor for six months straight … Sponsor Posts
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