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| Matthew Prince / CloudFlare Blog: |
Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks … At 1:19pm (PDT) today, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading. We know the New York Times tech team, so we sent an email to check in. A few minutes later, the CTO of the NYT called us back.
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Guardian, AlienVault Labs, CNET, Data Center Knowledge, The Next Web, InfoWorld, Washington Post, Poynter, Inquirer, Quartz, GigaOM, Mashable, SocialTimes, The Switch, SiliconANGLE, The Register, SC Magazine and Engadget
Tweets: @mikko, @bryfitz, @paulmozur, @eastdakota, @newsbreaker and @anonopsse
See also Mediagazer| Christine Haughney / New York Times: |
Times Web Site Affected by External Hacking Attack — The New York Times Web site was unavailable to readers on Tuesday afternoon following an attack on the company's domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The attack also required employees of The Times to stop sending out sensitive e-mails.
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CNN, Gizmodo, Domain Name Wire, ABC News, The Verge, VentureBeat, FireEye Blog and GigaOM. Tweets: @mattboggie. See also Mediagazer
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Syrian Electronic Army Says Attack on New York Times Is Over — The website of the New York Times entered its second day of less than full availability to its readers following an attack by an outside party on its Internet domain name registration record. — The attack coincided with a similar …
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Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, ZDNet and Washington Post
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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Business Insider, The Next Web, BBC, Electronista, CNET, Softpedia News, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Business Insider, BGR India, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Reuters, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, The Verge, Computerworld, Digits, Wired, SocialTimes, GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, ReadWrite, ABC News, RT, Guardian, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Los Angeles Times
Tweets: @official_sea16, @nyteileen, @official_sea16, @mattjay, @samfbiddle, @matthewkeyslive, @nytimes, @pourmecoffee, @steved3, @prwerdel and @emilydparker
See also Mediagazer| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC Developing Smartphone Operating System — Taiwanese Handset Maker Works With China in Bid to Revive Sales — TAIPEI—HTC Corp. is developing a mobile software system specifically for Chinese consumers, people familiar with the project say, as part of a big China bet …
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VentureBeat, 9to5Google, BGR, TechCrunch, ZDNet, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, The Next Web, I4U News, The Verge, Digits, SlashGear, MoneyBeat, Engadget, Android Beat and MobileSyrup.com
Tweets: @wsj and @paulmozur
| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression — Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requirements …
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rapidus.se, AppleInsider, ZDNet, GigaOM, VentureBeat, iMore, BGR, Business Insider, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, BGR India, Patently Apple and I4U News. Tweets: @markgurman
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple looking to turn the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, ‘smart home’ remote control — An Apple patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday describes a method in which a portable device, like the iPhone, can save, manage and recall entertainment and “smart home” system settings, called “scenes.”
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9to5Mac, I4U News, SlashGear, MacRumors, TechCrunch, MacNN, PC Magazine and MacDailyNews
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels — The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time Warner Cable is a significant part …
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oxm.co.uk, Engadget, WebProNews, VentureBeat, IntoMobile and Mercury News. Tweets: @nctacable. See also Mediagazer
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
| John Cassidy / The New Yorker: |
Steve Ballmer and the Art of Managing a Monopoly — Steve Ballmer hasn't been getting much love recently. On Friday, when he announced that he plans to retire as Microsoft's C.E.O. at some point within the next year, the firm's stock had its best day in years, rising seven per cent.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google drops Nexus 4 price, now starts at $199 — The Nexus 4 just got a lot cheaper. The company's flagship Android phone is now available for a full $100 less than it was just hours ago. The 8GB model is on sale through the Google Play Store for $199 with a contract, while the 16GB model is $249.
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Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, TechHive, Computerworld, BGR, iPhone, Android Police, Softpedia News, Gearburn, Android Beat, pocketnow.com, GigaOM, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Android Police. Tweets: @googleplay
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Teardown Reveals Google's Moto X Costs $221 to Build — As the first smartphone to be completely designed since Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, there are a lot of expectations riding on the Moto X. — The phone, now considered the flagship of the Motorola lineup, is getting noticed for being different.
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GigaOM, Forbes, The Official Motorola Blog, Android Beat, The Verge, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo and PhoneArena
| Michael Kassner / TechRepublic: |
Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means — There were doubts about being able to reverse engineer heavily-obfuscated applications written in Python. Two researchers have removed all doubt by reverse engineering the immensely popular Dropbox client.
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ReadWrite and It's a Gadget. Tweets: @liberationtech, @dangillmor, @cperciva, @pirateorg and @cgpgrey
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Marc Andreessen, Pat Gelsinger in verbal VMworld brawl — Netscape legend and VMware CEO clash on security, ARM vs. x86 and role of cloud — VMworld 2013 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and graphical-browser-inventor-turned- venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen have engaged in a feisty debate at Vmworld 2013 …
| Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat: |
Foursquare's impressive new Windows 8 app: Good for Foursquare, great for Microsoft — Foursquare's new Windows 8 app may not be the biggest deal for Foursquare, but it's huge for Microsoft. — With the app, which was officially announced in June, Foursquare takes some of the best parts about Windows 8 … | Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Car Sharing Startup Local Motion Gets $6 Million Investment, Steven Sinofsky On Its Board — Steven Sinofsky is joining the board of car sharing technology startup Local Motion. — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (AH) is investing $6 million in Local Motion. Sinofsky recently joined Andreessen Horowitz.
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Digits, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch and pmarca
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Hello art world: Smithsonian acquires first piece of code for design collection — iPad app Planetary has just been added to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's collection, but the institution has also gone as step further by acquiring the app's code.
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Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt …, Gizmodo, memeburn, AllThingsD and TechCrunch. Tweets: @wolffolins
| Chris Chavez / Android Phone Fans: |
Nexus 7 (2013) now available in UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Japan — While those of us in the US and Canada enjoyed a brief moment of exclusivity, Google's latest 7-inch tab — the all new Nexus 2013 — is finally making its way overseas. Starting today, those of you in the UK, Germany … | David Kravets / Wired: |
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling FBI Access to U.S. Supercomputers — Cray XT4 supercomputer cluster (Franklin) has 9,660 compute nodes. Each has quad-core AMD processors running at 2.3 GHz. Franklin has 38,640 processor cores, with 8 GB of memory per node and a total 350 TB of usable disk space.
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SlashGear, ZDNet, The Verge and Softpedia News
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Parallels Access puts Mac and PC apps on your iPad for $79.99 — Parallels is best known for its virtualization software that lets Mac owners seamlessly run Microsoft's Windows OS. But today the company is taking up another mission: it's attempting to bring desktop apps to the iPad …
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Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, GigaOM, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, iMore, Mashable, SlashGear, GeekWire, CNET, Electronista, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Macworld, TUAW, 9to5Mac and AllThingsD
| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
The CODE Keyboard — What would you do, if you could do anything? — I don't mean in a fantasy superhero way, but in terms of resources. If someone told you that you now had the resources to attempt to make one thing happen in the world, one real thing, what would that be?
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iMore, Ubergizmo and TechCrunch
| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
BlackBerry Is A Failed State — What happens now that BlackBerry appears to be doomed? Just think of it as a country. Welcome to BlackBerria. Don't drink the water. — BlackBerry, as BlackBerry users know it, is finished. The company that was almost single-handedly responsible …
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @tcarmody, @monkbent, @bradhill and @fwd
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