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March 3, 2013, 12:10 PM

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Evernote:

Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset — Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect your data …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details — Evernote is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts.

More: Naked Security, Reuters and Ars Technica

Louis Goddard / The Verge:

Evernote resets all passwords after user information stolen in security breach — Popular note-taking service Evernote has reset all user passwords after information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords was stolen in a security breach.

More: Pocket-lint, Geekosystem, Examiner, Marco.org, VatorNews, BetaNews, SlashGear, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Avinashtech, InformationWeek and canada.com. Tweets: @caseynewton

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz ‘Decode’ Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Farewell Memo — On Rap Genius — When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into Rap Genius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics …

More: Business Insider and Rap Genius

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Goodbye Groupon: Andrew Mason's dance with the devil — An aspiring entrepreneur partners with an experienced operator with a checkered past — In the wake of Andrew Mason's firing as CEO of Groupon, there's been a lot of negativity towards the young entrepreneur.

More: NYT Bits, The New Yorker, Chicago Business, TIME and Guardian

Tweets: @semil, @pkafka, @benpopper, @sarahcuda and @tcarmody

Bloomberg:

Mason Ouster Leaves Groupon Seeking CEO to Uncover Coupon Profit

More: Yahoo! Finance, USA Today, Bloomberg and The Next Web

Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company:

Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO

More: Business Insider, The Verge and The Awl

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

CloudFlare Was Down Due To Edge Routers Crashing, Taking Down 785,000 Websites Including 4chan, Wikileaks, Metallica.com — Security and caching service CloudFlare was down for close to an hour due to an issue with its edge routers. It's now all back up and running.

More: CloudFlare blog and GigaOM

Steve Mann / IEEE Spectrum:

My “Augmediated” Life — What I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear — Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went to speak with the driver …

More: Gizmodo and The Register

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Open and Shut — Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple's decade-long success: “Does a Company Like Apple Need a Genius Like Steve Jobs?”

More: MacDailyNews, PalmAddict and Patently Apple

Tweets: @digiphile, @rstephens, @cdixon, @dujkan, @panzer and @viticci

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens — One week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he'd leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page. Ross wrote: — “I'm leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son's best friend Todd …

More: CNET and Business Insider. Tweets: @karaswisher

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Jolla Wants To Build A Foursquare Phone, A Facebook Phone — Whatever It Takes To Wake Smartphones From Their Android Slumber — Finnish startup Jolla is open for business. That's the message CEO Marc Dillon was putting out, loud and clear, during two on-stage appearances at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona last week.

More: Engadget

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Firefox OS is repeating the mistakes of others and hoping for a different outcome — I feel bad for Mozilla, I really do. Competitors and the march of time are closing in quicker than it can raise its defenses. Her crown jewel, Firefox, is feeling the squeeze as Chrome encroaches …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google tests data compression proxy feature to speed up Chrome for Android, like Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk — Google's Chrome for Android team is experimenting with a new data compression proxy feature to speed up browsing similar to the methods used by Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk.

More: google+, PhoneArena, Liliputing, Google Operating System, gHacks and Google Plus Daily

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