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October 14, 2013, 1:30 AM

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Why US government IT fails so hard, so often — The rocky launch of the Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov is the most visible evidence at the moment of how hard it is for the federal government to execute major technology projects. But the troubled “Obamacare” …

More: BuzzFeed. Tweets: @johnmcquaid, @digiphile, @hblodget, @thegarance, @bbaiiey, @about__blank, @maryjofoley and @tomskitomski

New York Times:

Financial, technical, managerial missteps led to government health portal troubles — From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal — WASHINGTON — In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration's new online insurance marketplace …

More: Ars Technica and Business Insider. Tweets: @timothys, @jswatz, @jswatz, @craigjcalhoun, @dangillmor, @digiphile and @jswatz

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Netflix in talks with cable providers to make its service available on set-top boxes — Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals — Online Video Service Would Be Available on Set-Top Boxes - Netflix Inc. is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast Corp …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Variety, I4U News, Pocket-lint, CNET, SlashGear, Electronista, Reuters and Engadget

Tweets: @awallenstein and @jessicalessin

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Coming from Apple in 2014: 12-inch Retina MacBook, sharper iPad, cheaper iMac? — According to typically-reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, Apple has a slew of new products in the works for 2014. The analyst has summarized his expectations for these new products in a new research note …

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Mashable, Business Insider, CNET, Gizmodo, Electronista, I4U News and SlashGear. Tweets: @markgurman

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Waywire, Cory Booker's Attempt to Build a Web Video Startup, Sells to Magnify — Waywire, the video startup best known for its association with politician Cory Booker, is being sold to Magnify, a Web video distributor. — People familiar with the transaction say that Magnify …

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web. Tweets: @vivianschiller, @pkafka and @hunterwalk

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Xero Zeros In On Another $150M To Do Battle With Intuit In The World Of Online SMB Accounting Software — Nearly a year after Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners and others put an extra $49 million into Xero, the online accounting software company is adding yet more capital to its coffers.

More: The Technology Chronicles, AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Forbes, Reuters, ZDNet and bizjournals

Andrew Binstock / Dr. Dobb's All:

If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy — The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it. — A recurring prejudice in the forums where the cool kids hang out (Hacker News, Reddit, etc.) is against Java, the language.

Tweets: @grady_booch

Stewart Wilson / TechGeek:

D-Link Router backdoor vulnerability discovered — A rather worrying security vulnerability has been discovered which is affecting several D-Link branded modem routers. Posted on a website dedicated to Embedded Device Hacking, /dev/ttyS0, the vulnerability was discovered …

More: /dev/ttyS0, The Raw Story, TechSpot and The Register. Tweets: @e_kaspersky. Thanks:@terencehuynh

AFP:

Brazil announces secure email to counter US spying — Brasilia — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States and other countries.

More: ZDNet and I4U News. Tweets: @liberationtech

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

In a Mood? Call Center Agents Can Tell — IN a YouTube clip from one of Steve Jobs's last interviews, he appears to be enjoying reminiscing about how he first hit upon the idea for the keyboardless tablet that eventually became the iPad. — “I had this idea of being able to get rid of the keyboard …

More: Fortune. Tweets: @qhardy and @drmabuse

Reuters:

Canadian gov't to push cable providers to unbundle channels — The Canadian government will soon require cable and satellite television providers to make it easier for customers to buy only the channels they want rather than pay for bundles, the country's industry minister said on Sunday.

More: Globe and Mail and Canadian Press. Tweets: @rowast and @rafat. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Bilton Book: Twitter's Dick Costolo Was Fired (And Rehired) in 2010 — Twitter's founding tale keeps getting more and more complicated. — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was briefly fired from the company by an advisor to the board in 2010, according to a new book detailing the early, tumultuous days of the microblogging service.

More: USA Today and Business Insider. Thanks:@fefoslayer

Walter Frick / HBR.org:

How Twitter's Leadership Drama Explains its Success

More: The Verge, Business Insider and Fortune

Tweets: @karaswisher, @mikeisaac and @davemcclure

Thanks:@wfrick

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google CIO Ben Fried on the company's internal tools and restrictions — Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works — It was the former Google employee's first day out in the real world. He removed the enterprise security settings from his iPhone, and installed the apps he wasn't allowed …

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @whatthebit and @dtunkelang

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