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| David Gelernter / Wired: |
The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It — People ask what the next web will be like, but there won't be a next web. — The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It's already happening, and it all began with the lifestream …
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garry's posterous, Beyond Search, ZDNet, ROUGH TYPE and Stowe Boyd
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Got Hacked. Expect More Companies to Follow. — The last week of tech headlines reads like some sort of cybersecurity end of days scenario. The New York Times hacked. The Wall Street Journal hacked. The Washington Post hacked. — And finally on Friday, Twitter … | Tony Romm / Politico: |
Washington talks cybersecurity after Chinese attacks — Washington is grappling again with the prying eyes of Chinese hackers. — A string of computer breaches at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other media organizations have drawn a frustrated response … | Washington Post: |
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CNET, The Verge, Guardian, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, SecurityWeek and ChinaFile
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Super Bowl plans to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users at once—and sniff out “rogue devices” — Where the Super Bowl—and a gigantic Wi-Fi network—awaits 73,000 fans. — Superdome.com — When 73,208 fans file into the New Orleans Superdome for the Super Bowl on Sunday, they'll have to follow the usual rules …
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Gizmodo, PC World, Computerworld and VentureBeat
| George Dvorsky / io9: |
New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain — In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion to fund the incredibly ambitious Human Brain Project.
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Sycamore Networks: From $45 Billion to Zilch — There was a time when Sycamore Networks Inc. was the next big thing—a leader in the race to direct digital traffic across the Internet. — This is not that time. On Friday, Sycamore all but went out of business.
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Boston Herald, VCCircle and Corporate Intelligence
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
House puts Spotify on mute — Spotify apparently hit a wrong note with the House's Internet overlords, who recently blocked the chamber's Web users from listening to the famed music-streaming service. — While Spotify isn't a peer-to-peer program along the lines of Napster … | Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
The Big Money Behind Hit Game Minecraft — It takes 3,000 employees for Zynga —the largest social-gaming company in the world—to generate some $200 million in annual cash flow. — From an office in Stockholm, a largely unknown company brought in about half that sum. Its employee count: 29.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With “Articles Related To” — Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with “Articles Related To...”.
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| Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times: |
After Jody Sherman death, tech community seeks dialogue on suicide — Silicon Beach is mourning the death of entrepreneur and Ecomom co-founder Jody Sherman this week. Sherman, 47, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. Since his death Monday, several L.A. tech bloggers … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom launches Mega vulnerability reward program, offering up to $13,500 per bug — Kim Dotcom has officially launched his Mega vulnerability reward program that was announced last week. As we reported earlier, the founder of Mega, the newly launched file storage service …
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MEGA, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, SlashGear, New York Times, The Register and Ars Technica
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
InfoArmy Retreats After Crowdsourced Research Business Goes Through The Floor. All Reports Now Free — InfoArmy — a startup built on the “Data 2.0″ concept of crowdsourced competitive intelligence — has today sent out a letter, printed in full below, to its researchers informing … | Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law — Outdated rules and overzealous regulators mean kids can't use Path. Stop COPPA! — Via: path.com — The Federal Trade Commission levied a $800,000 fine on the social networking service Path Friday morning for having, among other things … Sponsor Posts
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