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February 24, 2013, 10:50 AM

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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers — Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy activist Jonathan Mayer.

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Tweets: @mikezaneis and @gunnr

Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:

The Incredible Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation—And Maybe More — The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn't sound Australian. — I couldn't detect an accent.

More: The Verge, Yahoo! News, Neowin and IGN

Ryan Holiday / Betabeat:

Hail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit — The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down. — That may be why the front page of Reddit has become …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @davidparmet

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Huawei Ascend P2 hitting Europe in Q2 for 399 euros, we go hands-on — Just ahead of Huawei's press event, Huawei's treated us to an early viewing of its new 8.4-millimeter smartphone, the Ascend P2. With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera and a 720p 4.7-inch …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

“Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More — Courtesy of a plethora of very irked Yahoo employees, here is the internal memo sent to the company about a new rule rolled out today by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees …

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Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 official: 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad, 1280 x 800 display, HSPA+ 21, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 — We knew another Note was coming. After all, Samsung Mobile head JK Shin confirmed the news back in January. But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the tablet's finally been made official.

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Tweets: @tim_chr and @dannysullivan

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 hands-on preview

More: CNET, AnandTech, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Gearburn and VentureBeat. Tweets: @viticci

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

Samsung's New 8-Inch Tablet Takes on the iPad Mini

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Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed:

How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet — It's one depressingly typical minute of the 6.2 million uploaded to YouTube every day: In a Montreal park, nothing much is happening. The camera pans around a clear blue sky, tracing the arc of a golden eagle as it twists and turns through the air.

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Donna Tam / CNET:

Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile — The social network recently fixed a bug discovered by a developer who demonstrated how the loophole let him take over other people's accounts. — A security hacker recently found a flaw in a Facebook system that allowed developers …

More: Nir Goldshlager Web …, Mashable!, Business Insider, AllFacebook, Securosis Highlights, Help Net Security, Softpedia News and Computerworld

Jodi Kantor / New York Times:

Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement — Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”

More: New York Times and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @rachelsklar and @tarensk

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook?

More: Business Insider and Quartz. Tweets: @karaswisher

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Falcon Pro Hits 100K User Token Limit - Another Twitter Client Bites The Dust — In case you hadn't heard, back in August of last year Twitter changed the rules for their API, limiting developers to 100,000 individual user tokens for outside apps (or 200% of then-totals, if the app already had more than 100,000 users).

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Ausdroid, GadgeTell and Droid Life

Tweets: @falcon_android, @tapbot_paul, @panzer and @falcon_android

Zain Shauk / Houston Chronicle:

Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears — Malicious software unintentionally downloaded by offshore oil workers has incapacitated computer networks on some rigs and platforms, exposing gaps in security that could pose serious risks to people and the environment, cybersecurity professionals told the Houston Chronicle.

More: Gizmodo and The Next Web

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months — Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic. The latest plan is let users request specific articles …

More: Engadget, The Inquisitr, IntoMobile, Knight Foundation, TechnoBuffalo, textually.org and Android Community

John Ribeiro / Computerworld:

Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate — The company also reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services — Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.

More: The Register, Forbes, PC World, Forbes, threatpost, ReadWrite, Neowin, The Register, Softpedia News, The Diversity Blog, ZDNet, The Verge, Wired, Los Angeles Times, GigaOM and MSDN Blogs

Tweets: @halowaypoint, @windowsazure, @majornelson and @office365

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