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August 18, 2013, 11:25 AM

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New York Times:

Expecting the Unexpected From Jeff Bezos — EARLY employees of Amazon still remember the day the company took away their aspirin. — It was late 1999. After years of heady excess, the Internet boom was beginning to falter. Amazon, among the most celebrated of the dot-coms, was burdened with debt and spiraling losses.

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RT:

Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg's wall — A Palestinian information system expert says he was forced to post a bug report on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page after the social network's security team failed to recognize that a critical vulnerability he found allows anyone to post on someone's wall.

More: Khalil, ArabCrunch and The Verge. Tweets: @georgiebc

Louis Kowolowski / Silent Circle Blog:

Why can't email be secure? — Coming on the heels of our announcement that we had shut down our Silent Mail service, we received a comment about securing email communications. “In a recent press release, your company stated it was impossible to secure email communication ‘as we know it’.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @marypcbuk and @carnage4life

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft apologizes for three-day Outlook.com outage, says caching issue was to blame — Microsoft today confirmed it has finally resolved an issue with Outlook.com that has been affecting some users for up to three days. The company apologized multiple times to those affected …

More: Computerworld, BetaNews, Engadget, The Verge, WinBeta, T3 News and ZDNet

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple opens graphics card replacement program for some mid-2011 iMacs — Apple has opened up one of its rare replacement programs for the graphics card in some mid-2011 iMac configurations, according to a notice issued to Apple Support employees. The iMac in question is the model released …

More: AnandTech, Redmond Pie, TUAW, Engadget, I4U News, MacRumors and Softpedia News. Thanks:@sarahg1113

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

As Court Releases Files In Case Alleging Google Tracked UK Safari Users, Search Giant Wants To Move Case To U.S. — Some new developments this weekend in the case of 12 people in the UK who want to sue Google for secretly tracking their online activity by working around privacy settings in Apple's Safari web browser.

Steve Wozniak / Gizmodo:

Jobs, Reviewed by Steve Wozniak — In the discussion section of our Jobs review, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak weighed in with his own impressions of the movie—and how he and others were portrayed. What follows is Woz's unedited take on Jobs: — I saw Jobs tonight. I thought the acting throughout was good.

More: Rotten Tomatoes, AllThingsD, tbreak, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Verge, Electronista, TechCrunch, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, Macworld, Betabeat, Wired, Computerworld, iPhone Hacks, BetaKit, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, PhoneArena, Inquirer, Rolling Stone and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @yoware, @nickbilton and @davewiner

Vijith Assar / Slashdot:

Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, New Movie

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Tweets: @tcarmody, @harrymccracken and @sdkstl

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Webcam spying goes mainstream as Miss Teen USA describes hack — “The light didn't even go on, so I had no idea.” Webcam hacking has officially gone mainstream with yesterday's revelation that the new Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, was the victim of a “sextortion” plot in which someone slipped …

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Barnes & Noble drops Nook with GlowLight price to $99. New model on the way? — Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its front-lit e-reader, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, to $99 on Sunday, from $119. This makes the Nook with GlowLight the only front-lit reader on the market under $99.

More: TechCrunch

Alex Colon / GigaOM:

If you're single, your mom is more likely to use an iPad than you are — A new study from Flurry Analytics is out, filled with data about iPhone and iPad usage collected randomly from 44,295 users during the month of May. This data is helpful for advertisers, but it's pretty interesting for everyone else as well.

More: Forbes, FOLIO, The Flurry Blog, BetaNews, AppleInsider, PadGadget, Mobile Marketing Watch, iDownloadBlog.com, LAPTOP Magazine, The Next Web, PandoDaily and TechCrunch. Tweets: @stevesi

Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:

Big-data ad platform Rocket Fuel plans $100M IPO — Ad network and data-analysis company Rocket Fuel is planning a $100 million initial public offering, according to documents filed with the SEC. The S-1 filing is still missing a few key details, such as the anticipated price of the stock or the hoped-for valuation of the company.

More: Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Reuters

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Microsoft phasing out Zune Marketplace rentals and purchases, but Zune Pass lives on — Xbox Music and Xbox Video are the future of Microsoft's digital media ecosystem. But putting a greater focus on the Xbox brand means saying goodbye to some past ventures.

More: Engadget, WinBeta and Joystiq

Caleb Garling / The Technology Chronicles:

Peter Shih storm puts Medium back on tightrope between publisher and platform — Medium, a new media start-up that publishes commissioned and volunteer stories and editorials, was thrust back in the spotlight this week on the wings of an offensive post. Peter Shih, a former Y Combinator participant …

More: Guardian, Gawker, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Medium and Business Insider. Tweets: @calebgarling. See also Mediagazer

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