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January 20, 2013, 11:30 AM

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Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity — Unsubstantiated statements implicate US Secret Service in Swartz's prosecution and break Wikileaks' own ‘doxxing’ rules — Aaron Swartz died a week ago. A public memorial service in New York City will be held later today.

More: CNET, emptywheel, Mashable!, AllThingsD and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mathewi, @tcarmody, @jason_pontin, @dangillmor, @wikileaks and @wikileaks

Thanks:@daveying99

Edward Moyer / CNET:

Memorial service honors Swartz as activist, individual — At a memorial gathering for Aaron Swartz in New York City, the tech activist's death prompts tender recollections and fierce resolve. — Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 — Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the main threads running through …

More: Democracy Now, The Verge, Guardian and Associated Press. Tweets: @brainpicker

Joshua Kopstein / The Verge:

After Aaron: how an antiquated law enables the government's war on hackers, activists, and you

More: Guardian, Techdirt, LiveScience and BuzzFeed

James Boyle / The Public Domain:

The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr

More: Harper's, The Volokh Conspiracy, Techdirt and The Huffington Post. Tweets: @lessig

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Senator John Cornyn Asks Eric Holder To Explain DOJ Prosecution Of Aaron Swartz

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, emptywheel, The Huffington Post, United States Senator …, Business Insider, Texas on the Potomac, Washington Times, Doc Searls Weblog and The Hill

Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:

The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz (Part 2: Prosecutorial Discretion)

More: Gizmodo, Lessig Blog, v2, Jeremiah Grossman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, PC Magazine, Techdirt, Softpedia News and The Daily Dish. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design — Dave Wiskus, in a thoughtful piece for Macworld, “Apple and the Future of Design”: … I've been giving this a lot of thought lately, and I think I've figured it out. — There is a shift going on, fashion-wise.

More: Max Rudberg and Forbes. Tweets: @stephenhay, @albertlai and @kevinmarks

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Google's Eric Schmidt calls for an open Internet as he lifts the lid on his visit to North Korea — Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, has shared extensive thoughts about his recent trip to North Korea which he attended alongside former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, and others.

More: Sophie In North Korea, Yahoo! News, Quartz, Geekosystem and Google+. Tweets: @pourmecoffee

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Face to face with Kim Dotcom as he launches Mega, talks about Megakey and the future of free content — If there's one place that you want to be for the launch of Mega.co.nz, it's within Kim Dotcom's mansion. That's precisely where I've been today. Sure we knew that Dotcom was larger than life …

More: Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, All New Musings and Forbes

Chris Keall / Ars Technica:

Building Mega: Ars' pre-launch interview with Kim Dotcom

More: Gizmodo, Gizmodo, PyTux, Forbes, The Next Web and BBC

Tweets: @kimdotcom and @chriskeall

Aaron Levie / TechCrunch:

The Changing Of The Enterprise Guard — Editor's note: Aaron Levie is CEO and co-founder of Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. — When we decided to focus on selling to enterprises five years ago at Box, we saw some exciting emerging trends: workers needed tools that were far simpler to use …

New York Times:

With Graph Search, Facebook Bets on More Sharing — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's greatest triumph has been to persuade a seventh of the world's population to share their personal lives online. — Now the social network is taking on its archrival, Google, with a search tool to mine …

More: Business Insider, ROUGH TYPE, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Computerworld

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala — Aubrey Johnson, a former Color employee, shares two stories behind the scenes at Apple's acquisitions of both Color and Lala — both firms were founded by Bill Nguyen before being acquired by Apple for two very different reasons.

More: Aubrey Johnson, ZDNet, The Verge, Softpedia News, MacNN, TUAW, Business Insider, App Advice, iClarified, iPhone Hacks and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @nikcub and @panzer

Business Insider:

Normal, Non-Geeky People Are Running Rampant On A New Dating App, Tinder — Today, one of our “normal” colleagues approached us about a new app all of her college-age friends and roommates use. It's called Tinder. — Tinder is a simple dating app that anonymously finds out who likes your looks nearby.

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Chrome To Gain Search Encryption, Following Similar Moves By Firefox & Mobile Safari — The wave of browsers using Google SSL Search — and thus blocking publishers from receiving search term data — continues. Google's own Chrome browser is next up, with the latest Chrome 25 beta using encryption.

More: Chromium Blog, Ubergizmo, GMANetwork.com, gHacks Technology News, Engadget, Techdows, The Next Web, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

“Downloaded”: Napster documentary on Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning premiering at the SXSW Film Festival — The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference has announced that the Napster documentary “Downloaded” will be premiering this March during its Film Festival.

More: AllThingsD, Mashable!, Billboard.Biz, BBC and SXSW 2013. Tweets: @joshconstine

The Register:

Orange boasts: We made Google PAY US for traffic — Some packets are more neutral than others ... France Telecom-Orange is making a wad of cash from Google, the company's CEO boasted in an interview with French media yesterday. — Talking to BFM Business TV, CEO Stephane Richard didn't give …

More: The Verge, Beyond Search and Agence France Presse

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Google should be ashamed for paying carriers to handle its traffic

Tweets: @christianhern

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery — We've learned today that mobile news-delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously. The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to follow …

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