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Court documents reveal ambivalence in how MIT assisted Aaron Swartz's prosecution — The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz — More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT's handling of the hacking case persist
Tweets: @bostonglobe, @matthewkeyslive, @declanm, @caleb_crain and @mattblaze
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Frustrated by popular fast following rip-offs like 2048, creators of Threes tout advantages of their 14-month development process — The Rip-offs & Making Our Original Game — It's been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Longtime Windows and Office Executive Antoine Leblond Leaving Microsoft — Antoine Leblond, one of several Windows unit executives sidelined in a reorganization last year, is leaving Microsoft. — Leblond, who spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft, will leave the company after Monday — his 9,000th day at the company.
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GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies — Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database.
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| Felix Salmon: |
Grand, immersive designs, increasingly common in journalism, vastly oversell smaller stories — Against beautiful journalism — Have you seen that site's gorgeous new redesign? Every article has a nice big headline, huge photos, loads of white space, intuitive and immersive scrolling …
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Teaching Online Journalism. Tweets: @clarkstream, @feliciasonmez, @nycsouthpaw, @kgittleson and @dylanlathrop
| Laszlo Bock / Harvard Business Review: |
Google is two years into gDNA, a long-term study to understand employees' work-life balance — Google's Scientific Approach to Work-Life Balance (and Much More) — More than 65 years ago in Massachusetts, doctors began a longitudinal study that would transform our understanding of heart disease.
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Business Insider, The Verge, BGR, GovExec.com and 9to5Google
| Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post: |
In new case, Supreme Court revisits the question of software patents — If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it. But for decades, software has had the distinction of being eligible for both copyright and patent protection.| AnandTech: |
HTC One (M8) review: great build quality, as much as 70% more battery life vs. predecessor — The HTC One (M8) Review — HTC remains one of few Android OEMs insanely focused on design. Even dating back to the origins of the One brand in 2012 with the One X and One S …
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The Verge, The Droid Guy, BGR and Android Beat
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Facebook designer defends scaled-back News Feed redesign, noting low-res monitors are too common for big photos — Whatever's Best For The People, That's What We Do — Earlier today, Dustin Curtis wrote a post about the recent Facebook desktop redesign.
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The Verge, Dustin Curtis, Gizmodo and Business Insider
Tweets: @digitalmash, @joulee, @mikeisaac, @marcusf, @mat and @dcurtis
| Paul Graham / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Paul Graham steps away from Hacker News, handing control to five Y Combinator staffers — Meet the People Taking over Hacker News — I did several different things while I was working on Hacker News, and these will now be taken over by different people. — Kevin Hale (HN id kevin) will be in charge of design.
| Larry Seltzer / ZDNet: |
Google claims Turkey intercepts their DNS — Summary: Apparently in order to enforce a government ban on certain services, Turkish ISPs are intercepting access of Google's public DNS service. — Google is claiming that ISPs in Turkey are intercepting their DNS service.| George Anders / Forbes: |
Sequoia Capital profiled as a feisty, decisive, luxury-eschewing band of outsiders — Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory — When Doug Leone arrived in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in 1968, the 11-year-old Italian immigrant didn't have a clue.
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Both Sides of the Table and StrictlyVC. Tweets: @jmsmacham, @johnehenderson, @katiefehren, @alexia, @joyce, @jeremysliew, @alexrkonrad, @sequoia_capital, @furrier, @pmarca and @abrams
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