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NSA Tailored Access Operations unit specializes in “getting the ungettable”, intercepts hardware shipments to plant malware — The NSA Uses Powerful Toolbox in Effort to Spy on Global Networks — The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon.
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NSA has 50-page catalog of exploits and backdoors in devices from Cisco, Huawei, Dell, Juniper, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and more — Catalog Reveals NSA Has Back Doors for Numerous Devices — After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through …
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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
A core issue: young women are not embracing tech in key development years as often as men — Girls Who Code — I feel badly for Paul Graham because he's being made out to be something I am sure he is not. But the brouhaha that he unleashed about women founders, women coders …
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut — Amazon, NPD Group trumpet sales of the bare-bones laptops in 2013 to consumers and businesses — Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts. — And that's bad news for Microsoft.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Chromebook Sales vs. Web Traffic Share — Gregg Keizer, reporting for Computerworld: … If these reports are right, we should soon see a corresponding surge in web traffic share for ChromeOS. But I'm having trouble finding a web traffic source that even counts Chrome OS as an entity.
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Qualcomm says its first commercial neuromorphic (brainlike) processor is coming in 2014 — Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Cutesy Annual Report To Partners Reveals First Country-By-Country Mobile Stats — TechCrunch has obtained never before published metrics showing Facebook's international growth. Facebook sent some partners a playfully illustrated eMagazine called The Annual … | Taylor Clark / The Atlantic Online: |
How Jesse Willms built an e-commerce operation the FTC says scammed consumers out of $467M — Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet — How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web — If you want to get a sense of Jesse Willms … | Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Hacker took over BBC server, tried to ‘sell’ access on Christmas Day — (Reuters) - A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
If not the NSA, who should store the phone data? — A measure that President Obama is considering as a way to curb the National Security Agency's mass storage of phone data is already facing resistance — not only from the intelligence community but also from privacy advocates, the phone industry and some lawmakers.| David Kravets / Wired: |
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large — Christopher Mims, writing for Quartz, “2013 Was a Lost Year for Tech”: … What a sad pile of piss-on-everything cynicism. — Was 2013 a seminal or particularly extraordinary year for technology? No, I'd say not.
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| Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / Flurry Blog: |
Kindles saw 24x bump in activations on Christmas vs. other Dec. days, Apple saw 2.3x bump — Amazon Delivers A Great Christmas For Its Kindle — In less than a decade, connected devices have become an integral part of Christmas. They are commonly wished for and given as gifts …
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