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September 16, 2014, 4:31 AM

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Markus Persson / notch.net:
Markus “Notch” Persson on selling and leaving Mojang: “It's not about the money. It's about my sanity.”  —  I'm leaving Mojang  —  September 15th, 2014 I don't see myself as a real game developer.  I make games because it's fun, and because I love games and I love to program …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Why parents are raising their kids on Minecraft  —  Microsoft's latest purchase has remarkable intergenerational appeal  —  Back in June of 2011, David Pakman's daughter and son, at the time age 10 and eight, asked him for a copy of Minecraft.  “At the time I didn't know what that was …
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Owen Hill / Mojang:
Mojang's founders Markus “Notch” Persson, Carl Manneh, and Jakob Porsér to leave the company after Microsoft acquisition  —  Yes, we're being bought by Microsoft  —  Yes, the deal is real.  Mojang is being bought by Microsoft.  —  It was reassuring to see how many of …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Windows 9 event in San Francisco on September 30th  —  Microsoft is preparing to detail its next major version of Windows.  We had been expecting the company to hold a press event later this month, and now it's official.  Microsoft will hold a “Windows event” in San Francisco on September 30th.
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
Paypal attacks Apple Pay security with full-page ad in NYT referencing recent iCloud celebrity photo hack  —  “We the people want our money safer than our selfies.”  PayPal goes after Apple in a full page NYT ad  —  As the rumors of an Apple payments platform swirled leading up to last week's keynote …
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Silicon Valley's view of Alibaba: a competitor only for investments, and a potential acquirer  —  How Silicon Valley sees Alibaba  —  Wall Street is seeing green this week regarding the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.  It hopes to raise more than $20 billion.
Tweets: @jonrussell
Derrick Harris / Gigaom:
Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech  —  Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along with other big-name companies) to help foster open source efforts.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Roku has sold over 10 million of its streaming players  —  Roku just hit a milestone: over 10 million of its streaming players have been sold to this point, stretching from the company's original set-top box — which debuted in 2008 — through today.  It's a big number, and it establishes Roku …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
500px Co-Founder And Former CEO Ousted From The Startup  —  Toronto's 500px photo portfolio site and marketplace is undergoing some major changes, as co-founder Oleg Gutsol is out from the company he started.  The executive shared the information on Facebook on Monday, saying that he was …
More: BetaKitTweets: @rcnaturephotos
Wall Street Journal:
Bill Gurley says Silicon Valley is taking on the most risk since 1999, will see high-profile failures in the next year or two  —  Venture Capitalist Sounds Alarm on Startup Investing  —  Silicon Valley Has Taken on Too Much Risk, Gurley Says  —  Silicon Valley is a risk-driven place.
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
Macy's rolls out retail's largest beacon installation  —  Summary: Macy's expects to complete the installation by early fall, just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season.  —  Following a test run during last year's holiday shopping season at its flagship stores in New York City and San Francisco …
More: MacRumors and SlashGear
WikiLeaks:
WikiLeaks releases copies of FinFisher malware governments reportedly use to spy on journalists, political dissidents, and others  —  SpyFiles 4  —  Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Panasonic puts a 1-inch sensor and a Leica lens on new CM1 smartphone  —  Seeking to set a new benchmark for the cameraphone category  —  Panasonic has made the biggest news of Photokina so far with the announcement of its new Lumix CM1 Android smartphone.
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Gartner: 75% of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in 2015  —  Majority of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in the future: Gartner  —  Summary: The research firm claims that 75 percent of all mobile applications will fail basic security tests next year — leaving the enterprise vulnerable.

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