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February 17, 2013, 11:10 AM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does — It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that “personal data isn't safe there.”

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft job postings confirm more about Windows and Windows Phone Blue — Summary: A new Microsoft job posting verifies that Windows Blue will include user experience improvements, not just under-the-covers interface tweaks. Bonus: There's a reference to ‘Windows Phone Blue’ on Microsoft's job site, too.

More: The Verge, WinBeta, Neowin, PhoneArena, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News and CodenameWindows

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

When Mayer Called Yahoo's Mobile Revenue “Nascent,” She Wasn't Kidding (And Here's the Actual Number She Left Out) — On Yahoo's recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company's mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier …

More: Marketing Land and ECPM BLOG. Tweets: @gsterling

Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News:

Google Takeout now offering Blogger and Google+ Page exports — Google Takeout is a service by Google that enables account owners to save some of their data to a local system. The takeout service makes available data from a variety of Google services including Google Drive, YouTube …

More: Engadget, Android Central, India's Technology News …, The Verge, SlashGear and Softpedia News

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Apple's Podcast Disaster — Is the company that basically invented the podcast putting it out to pasture? — Apple's podcast app is, without a doubt, the worst iOS app it's ever made. Others have been poorly received or largely ignored, but this is unprecedented: With nearly 6,000 ratings …

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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Transcript: The keys to Andreessen Horowitz's success — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talk to Fortune's Adam Lashinsky about their investing philosophies, role models and business model. — FORTUNE — When partners at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are late to a meeting …

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Why Mozilla Matters And Won't Switch To WebKit — Earlier this week, Opera announced that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It's obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behind it, with Google, Apple and now Opera backing it.

More: Fink @ Mozilla and Brendan Eich

Craig Kanalley / The Huffington Post:

Pinterest May Be Bigger Than You Think, Competing To Be The 2nd Most Popular Social Network — Facebook is the dominant social network in the United States these days, in terms of users, but there's a battle underway for the number two slot, a new study has found.

More: AdAge, Pew Internet, PC Magazine, Mashable!, Poynter, USA Today, digitaltrends.com, Boing Boing and paidContent

James Niccolai / PC World:

Intel shifts gears on Itanium, raising questions about the server chip's future — Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers.

More: CRN ALL Content Feed and eWeek. Tweets: @qthrul

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

You're not gonna Like it: Facebook's new search struggles with the real world — Mark Zuckerberg needs to rethink Likes before Graph Search can shine — One week ago, I received a Facebook message from my friend David. “SUPER random question, but do you know a girl from Michigan whose name is Lauren and lives in Boston?” he asked.

More: Beyond Search and Digits. Tweets: @noruweijin

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile — Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega …

More: Gizmodo, The Verge and SlashGear

Tweets: @kimdotcom and @kimdotcom

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

In a Fireside Hangout on Google+, Obama says we need more patent reform and computer education — In President Obama's inaugural Fireside Hangout on Google+, he faced the public and answered a bevy of questions along a wide range of topics, including immigration, gun violence, and even technology.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mashable!, White House.gov Blog, Business Insider and TechCrunch

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