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Steven Levy / Wired:

The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth — Nineteen eighty-four was not like 2014. When Steve Jobs launched the Macintosh, he had to generate excitement about a product — a computer — that was unfamiliar to most people, if not downright scary.

More: Tech.pinions, MacDailyNews and kottke.org

iFixit:

Macintosh 128K Teardown — Join us as we live the time-traveler's dream—the deep, lucid, Orwellian vision of hope, fear, and nostalgia that is 1984. Just in time for its 30th anniversary, we laid hands on an '84 original: the Macintosh 128K. And, you guessed it—we're tearing it down like it's the Berlin Wall.

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple takes over its homepage to celebrate 30 years of Mac, with accompanying video, timeline and poll — In addition to interviews with the press, Apple is celebrating 30 years of Mac with a full-bleed graphic on its homepage, which links to a minisite that plots how the Mac evolved over the years.

Jason Snell / Macworld:

Interview with Schiller, Federighi and Tribble on the future of the Mac on its 30th birthday

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes — Update 2: As of 2:52 service seems to be restored and reliable on both Gmail and Google+ for most of those affected. — Update: Users are now reporting that Gmail service at least is back for some …

More: 9to5Google, Mercury News, eWeek, Mercury News, Marketing Land, PC World, Examiner, GeekWire, Data Center Knowledge, Business Insider, The Verge, Forbes, iMore, The Register, The Switch, Consumerist, Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, SFist, WebProNews and POPSUGAR. Tweets: @gaberivera

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Days-Old Error In Google Search Causes Gmail User To Get Thousands Of Emails

More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times and The Verge

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Black Car Competitor Accuses Uber Of DDoS-Style Attack; Uber Admits Tactics Are “Too Aggressive” — Competition is fierce in the world of on-demand transportation. The consumer demand for better, more convenient car service has exploded over the last two years, and startups services are racing to capitalize.

More: Valleywag, Uber Blog, CNNMoney.com, The Verge, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Inc.com, The Snitch, Fast Company, SlashGear, Auto World News and Consumerist

Hanni Fakhoury / Wired:

The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs — Before Edward Snowden showed up, 2013 was shaping up as the year of reckoning for the much criticized federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"). The suicide of Aaron Swartz in January 2013 brought the CFAA …

More: Boing Boing. Tweets: @radar, @joey_flatt, @eff and @mat

Douglas MacMillan / Digits:

SoundCloud raises over $60M at a $700M valuation, led by IVP and Chernin — Music-Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises New Funds at $700 Million Valuation — SoundCloud, the site for uploading and sharing music, has raised a new round of funding valuing the company at about $700 million, according to a person familiar with the deal.

More: Re/code, The Verge, Gigaom and Business Insider. Tweets: @benjaminharvey. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Founders Fund aiming to raise $750M in Q1 for fifth fund, 20% increase over previous pool — Facebook-Backer Thiel's Venture Firm Raising $750 Million Fund — Founders Fund, the venture firm started by Facebook Inc. (FB) backer Peter Thiel, is aiming to raise about $750 million for its fifth fund …

More: StrictlyVC and VentureBeat

Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:

Sony Pictures, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Make Movie Deal For ‘Lean In’ — EXCLUSIVE: In a deal spearheaded by Sony Pictures production president Hannah Minghella, the studio has made a preemptive acquisition of film rights to Lean In: Women, Work, And The Will to Lead, the 2013 book written by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

More: Betabeat, CNET, Business Insider, The Verge, Bloomberg, Valleywag, bizjournals, WebProNews, Digital Spy, The Tell and New York Magazine. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Ryan Knutson / Digits:

31% of new customers prefer smartphone financing, instead of subsidies on big 3 US carriers — Mobile Plans With No Phone Subsidies Are Winning Over Customers — Wireless customers seem to like early upgrade plans, according to a survey out this morning by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, LLC.

New York Times:

Neiman Marcus now says security breach puts 1.1 million cards at risk — Neiman Marcus Data Breach Worse Than First Said — The theft of consumer data from Neiman Marcus appears far deeper than had been disclosed originally, with the luxury retailer now saying that hackers invaded …

More: eWeek, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Wired, PC Magazine, Business Insider, WebProNews, Help Net Security, Washington Post, darkREADING, VatorNews and SecurityWeek

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