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February 19, 2013, 2:15 PM

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Reuters:

Apple, Mac computers hit by hackers who targeted Facebook — (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.

More: The Loop, eWeek, BBC, VentureBeat, ZDNet, BGR, CNET, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Verge, Reuters, Hillicon Valley, Forbes, GigaOM, Engadget, MacRumors, Business Insider, Digital Media Wire, memeburn, Apple Fan Site, Daring Fireball, Mashable!, iPhone Hacks and TUAW

Tweets: @reuters, @reuterstech and @reuterstech

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Says It, Too, Attacked By Hackers — Apple said Tuesday that a small number of its employees' computers were hacked through a vulnerability in the Java browser plug-in but said none of its internal data was compromised. — “Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number …

More: The Next Web and 9to5Mac

New York Times:

Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. — On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building off Datong Road …

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Security firm releases screen capture video of alleged Chinese military hackers at work — Security firm Mandiant has released a damning report offering unprecedented evidence, including screen capture video, of the actions of an alleged Chinese military-backed hacking group.

More: WorldViews, Computerworld, Business Insider, Forbes, Washington Post, The H Security, NetworkWorld.com … and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @nikcub. Thanks:@epro

Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:

US security firm alleges massive Chinese hacking

More: Tech in Asia and SlashGear. Tweets: @stshank

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

HTC One unveiled: 4.7-inch 1080p display, 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600, UltraPixel camera, Android 4.1.2 with Sense 5 — Despite the abundant fanfare and critical acclaim, HTC's One X just couldn't quite mark the spot in 2012. No wonder, then, that the company's lopped off that extraneous letter …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, Engadget, ZDNet, BGR, Ars Technica, ABCNEWS, ReadWrite, Macgasm, Electronista, WebProNews, HTC Blog, SlashGear, SlashGear, IntoMobile and SlashGear

Tweets: @tomwarren and @dannysullivan

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Hands on and Impressions from the HTC One - Formerly M7 — HTC is in an interesting position as a result of this last product cycle. While the previous HTC One series' industrial design and performance was top notch, other OEMs still managed to eclipse the One series in terms of market adoption and consumer perception.

More: The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, Engadget, Pocket-lint and Android Central

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Inside the HTC One: betting the company on two daring features

More: HTC Blog, CNET, Examiner and GeekWire

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Releases iOS 6.1.2 to Address Exchange Calendar Bug — In line with a report from last week, Apple has just released iOS 6.1.2. According to Apple, the update addresses a Microsoft Exchange bug but sources had indicated that it also addresses a lock screen passcode issue.

More: The Next Web, BGR, 9to5Mac and TUAW

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Ubuntu for tablets revealed with split screen multi-tasking, preview for Nexus slates coming this week — Here it is: the fourth and final piece of the Ubuntu puzzle. We've seen the OS on smartphones, on TVs and of course on desktops, but the tablet version has spent a little longer in its dressing room.

More: Ars Technica, AllThingsD, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Forbes, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, Softpedia News, Tom's Hardware Guide, ExtremeTech, Geek.com, SlashGear and Neowin

Joseph Stromberg / Surprising Science:

Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less — The Opte Project creates visualizations of the 14 billion pages that make up the network of the web. Image via Opte Project — No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it's estimated that there are more than 14 billion.

More: VentureBeat, PC World, Washington Post, Laughing Squid, digitaltrends.com, Telegraph and TG Daily

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Amazon introduces lnstant Video links to the IMDb iOS app — Amazon has made it easy for users of the IMDb iOS app to go from reading about a film to watching it, after it added Amazon Instant Video links to the app for the movie database that it bought in 2008.

More: MacRumors, iPhone and TUAW

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Works on Launching Retail Stores — U.S. Outlets Would Likely Sell Internet Giant's Branded Devices, but Plans Remain Unclear; Studying Apple's Playbook — Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter …

More: CNNMoney.com, Businessweek, The Verge, Android Community and BGR

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:

Sequoia Makes It Official, Filing for “Scout Seed” Fund — Sequoia Capital, whose “stealthy” scouting program first came to light last spring, looks to be formalizing the program by registering its first U.S. Scout Seed Fund with the SEC this morning. — The filing doesn't provide …

More: TechCrunch and PandoDaily

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Jeep's Official Twitter Account Hacked (Just Like Burger King's) — “Sold To Cadillac.” By the same crew who did the Burger King hack yesterday. — The same people who pulled off a hour-long hijacking of Burger King's account yesterday have struck again, this time taking over Jeep's official Twitter feed.

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Betabeat, The Next Web and Gawker

Tweets: @cadillac, @mikeisaac and @digiphile

C. Custer / Tech in Asia:

A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web — Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.

More: The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft's enterprise communications tool Lync promises Skype integration, mobile apps for all platforms — Today at the first eponymous conference for its Lync product, Microsoft announced that it will link the enterprise-focused communications service with Skype, the consumer-friendly VoIP and video calling tool.

More: TechNet Blogs, TechCrunch, GeekWire and ReadWrite

AnandTech:

NVIDIA Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE and Phoenix Reference Design — It has been a while since we've heard anything about Project Grey, the first NVIDIA SoC with an integrated digital baseband, and the result of NVIDIA's acquisition of soft-modem manufacturer Icera.

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan arrives: the world's most powerful gaming GPU costs $999 — The Titan — the world's fastest supercomputer — has 18,688 Nvidia GK110 GPUs inside. Each and every one is more powerful than the graphics accelerator in most any gaming PC you'll find.

More: AnandTech, Gizmodo and Engadget

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Taboola Raises $15 Million So It Can Suggest More Stories You Might Click On — Content recommendation service Taboola tells Web surfers where to go, 1.5 billion times a day. And it thinks that activity could turn into a really big business one day. — Hence the company's new $15 million round …

More: Beet.TV, VentureBeat, VatorNews, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Next Web, VideoNuze Analysis and paidContent

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Samsung embarking on an aggressive expansion in Silicon Valley — South Korean tech giant Samsung's move to broaden its footprint in Silicon Valley signals an escalation of its rivalry with Apple. — A rendering shows Samsung's new campus for its semiconductor division in San Jose.

Thanks:@vulsai

David Law / The Microsoft Office Blog:

Outlook.com leaves preview as the world's fastest growing email service going from 0 to 60 million in just 6 months — Last summer, we released a preview of Outlook.com, a new modern email service from Microsoft. Since then, we've been humbled by the fast pace of adoption …

More: Mashable!, SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, Computerworld, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, The Official Microsoft Blog, digitaltrends.com, Guardian, ZDNet, Datamation.com, BGR, SlashGear, Techie Buzz and LiveSide.net. Thanks:@ryanburk

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Outlook.com exits preview with 60 million active users, Hotmail UI to be retired this summer

More: Microsoft, ABCNEWS, Bloomberg, The Next Web, PC World, 9to5Google, CNET, Electronista, memeburn, BetaNews, Betabeat and GadgeTell

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