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Mat Honan / Wired:

Twitter's Killer New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb — When Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication back in May, it hinted that the SMS authentication would be merely a first step in a more robust security solution. Today, WIRED got a better look at the company's just-announced …

More: Twitter Blog. Tweets: @jimio and @couch

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Twitter for iOS and Android gets login verification, photo galleries, search improvements, and list management

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook To Publicize News Feed Algorithm Changes, Starting With New “Story Bumping” — 700 million people use the Facebook News Feed every day but many don't understand how it decides what appears, so Facebook announced today it will start publishing blog updates on how the feed algorithm is changing similar to how Google does.

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Tweets: @elizakern and @facebook

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Here's Why I Think Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post — Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider, so in the wake of news that he's buying the Washington Post, folks have been asking me two questions: — What's it like being owned or invested in by Jeff Bezos?

More: New Yorker, New Republic, Businessweek, Reuters, The Atlantic Online, Bloomberg, memeburn, New Republic, SiliconANGLE, News Desk, bizjournals, WebProNews, Dave Winer, New York Times, Jack Shafer and Forbes. Tweets: @funktio. See also Mediagazer

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years

More: Guardian, ZDNet, Quartz, Washington Post, The Verge, New York Times, Techonomy and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Michael Moritz / LinkedIn:

Stop the Presses: A New Press Lord Appears

More: Nieman Journalism Lab, BuzzMachine, Digital Media Wire, Borowitz Report, CNN, Fortune, Forbes, Wonkblog, HotHardware.com News, SocialTimes, Venture Capital Dispatch, TheStreet.com and GigaOM

Tweets: @linkedintoday, @antderosa and @dannysullivan

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft launches Windows Phone web tool to let anyone create apps — Microsoft wants Windows Phone developers and apps, and it's launching a developer tool on Tuesday in its latest effort to secure apps for its ecosystem. A beta version of Windows Phone App Studio is now available …

More: The Windows Blog, The Next Web, The Windows Blog, ReadWrite, Engadget, TechCrunch, MSDN Blogs, WMPoweruser and Windows Phone Central

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

FreedomPop offers 500MB of free LTE a month, upgrades to Sprint's faster 4G network — FreedomPop is a mobile network operator with a pretty crazy business model. You buy the wireless hotspot or USB dongle, and they provide the internet for free: 500MB of free data every month, with no contracts, activation or cancellation fees.

More: DSLreports, VentureBeat, Engadget, AllThingsD, PR Newswire, PC Magazine, Examiner, LAPTOP Magazine, GigaOM, Light Reading, TechCrunch, The Next Web, TechHive and IntoMobile

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Will Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Finally Get It Right? — It's 2 a.m. and Dennis Crowley is wired. We've just left Foursquare's South by Southwest party at the Hype Hotel, a warehouse-size space in downtown Austin where nearly 1,000 revelers were drowning in deafening club music and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Valleywag and About Foursquare. Tweets: @jyarow. Thanks:@jordanhepner

Mariella Moon / Engadget:

TextNow launches IP-based mobile phone service starting at $19 per month — Some people are afraid of commitment, and that includes vowing to stick with a carrier for two years. Thankfully, the list of choices keeps on growing for those who'd rather use contract-free devices …

More: Examiner, GigaOM, TechHive, I4U News, Businessweek, Electronista, PhoneNews.com, Ubergizmo and Android Community

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Nielsen Blesses Twitter's Tale With a New Study: Tweets Really Can Boost Ratings — All that Twittering about TV? It really does boost TV ratings. — So says Nielsen, in a new study that Twitter executives, among others, will be delighted to see. — It's the first research …

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Firefox 23 arrives with a new logo, Share button, mixed content blocker, network monitor, and more — Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 23 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Improvements include the addition of a Share button, mixed content blocker, and network monitor on the desktop side.

More: The Mozilla Blog, TechCrunch, eWeek, PC World, MobileSyrup.com, TUAW, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News and Electronista. Thanks:@epro

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace with over 40,000 fine artworks — Amazon has just announced the Amazon Art marketplace, giving users access to 40,000 pieces of fine art from over 150 dealers and galleries. Over 4,500 artists will be represented at launch, making the site …

More: Amazon.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, eWeek, Computerworld, WebProNews, GeekWire, The Next Web, Geekosystem, Softpedia News, BetaNews, Gizmodo and PetaPixel

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Music publishers file copyright suit against big YouTube channel operator — A group of music publishers and songwriters have claimed in a copyright lawsuit that Fullscreen, which operates a network of popular YouTube channels, is including unlicensed music in its videos.

More: GigaOM and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget:

Samsung trademark filing for ‘Galaxy Gear’ hints at smartwatch — The evidence keeps piling up for a Samsung smartwatch that has yet to materialize. Most recently, Dutch site Galaxy Club uncovered a US trademark filing for “Samsung Galaxy Gear” that was published at the end of July.

More: TechRadar.com, Electronista, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, Examiner, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Mobile Magazine, BBC, BGR India, Yahoo! News, Android Beat, BGR and The Register

Jeremy Kirk / ITworld.com:

TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript — The anonymizing network gives some advice following a startling Firefox zero-day vulnerability — The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined …

More: Tor Mailing List, TechSpot, The Tor Blog blogs, TechWeekEurope UK, Quartz, Help Net Security, Gizmodo and ZDNet

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

IBM Gets Allies to Chip Away at Intel — Google, Others Join Effort to Break Big Blue's Power Designs Out of a Niche — International Business Machines Corp. has enlisted Google Inc. and some other high-tech allies for a collective effort to catapult an IBM chip technology out of a shrinking niche.

More: ZDNet, TechEye, Ars Technica and PC World. Tweets: @whatthebit

Phone Arena:

Intel announces two Atom-based Android tablets for school use — More and more classrooms around the world are going digital. Paper textbooks are gradually being replaced by electronic copies, which are loaded with interactive content, thus significantly improving the education process.

More: Engadget, BetaNews, I4U News, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Android Community, 9to5Google, TabTimes, NDTV Gadgets, dailywireless.org and AndroidHeadlines.com

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Cyber Security Expert Barrett Lyon Brings Defense.net Out Of Stealth To Battle A New Wave Of DDoS Attacks — Cyber security expert and serial entrepreneur Barrett Lyon has a new startup coming out of stealth today. The company, named Defense.net, specializes in mitigating DDoS attacks — something Lyon knows a little something about.

More: GigaOM

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Samsung's “3D Vertical” NAND crams a terabit on a single chip — SSD enthusiasts know all about SLC, MLC, and TLC, but there are some new acronyms in SSD town: V-NAND and CTF. Samsung announced in a press release last night that it has begun mass production of “3D Vertical NAND,” …

More: ZDNet, Engadget, V3.co.uk, TechEye, HotHardware.com News, IntoMobile and PC World

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Linking in Google Drive gets easier with a nifty search field — If you spend a lot of time in Google Drive documents like I do, you'll appreciate this update: Google has just added a search field for when you try to link to websites documents in your Drive.

More: Google Drive, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google and The Verge

Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:

White House publishes preliminary list of cybersecurity incentives — The White House on Tuesday released a preliminary set of incentives it may offer power plants, water companies and others that operate critical infrastructure to get them to join a cybersecurity program chaired by the Homeland Security Department.

More: White House.gov Blog, PC World, ZDNet and The Verge

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