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Secret British spy unit mounted cyberattacks against Anonymous and LulzSec, Snowden docs show — War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show — A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain's enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documen...
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| Gabriella Coleman / Wired: |
The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us — The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.
Tweets: @ggreenwald and @wiredopinion
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Long-Time Google Ads Exec Susan Wojcicki is YouTube's New Boss — Susan Wojcicki, SVP of advertising for Google, will lead its YouTube unit, sources said. — The news was first reported as likely by The Information late Tuesday night. — Wojcicki was employee No. 16 at Google … | Jason Fried / 37signals: |
37signals changes name to Basecamp, will focus solely on that product, may spin off or sell Campfire and Highrise — Two big announcements. — This year marks 37signals' 15th year in business. And today is Basecamp's 10th birthday. We have a lot to celebrate, and two exciting announcements to share.
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sony looking to sell PC business to investment fund — TOKYO — Sony is in talks to unload its sluggish personal computer operations to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners, part of a business overhaul designed to shift focus to smartphones, The Nikkei learned Tuesday.| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Google Ends EU Antitrust Probe Pledging Rival Links — Google Inc. (GOOG), the owner of the world's largest search engine, reached a settlement to end the European Union's three-year antitrust probe after it offered to display results from rival search services.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Microsoft, Past and Future — In broad strokes, here is my view of Microsoft's history. — In the beginning, Bill Gates stated the company's goal: “A computer on every desk and in every home.” That was crazy. The PC revolution was well underway, but the grand total of PCs sold …
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Apple hires sleep research expert Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips for iWatch team — Joining a longlist of Apple executives and new hires thought to be working on Apple's highly anticipated iWatch project, the company has recently picked up Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips Research … | Joab Jackson / Computerworld: |
IBM questions whether D-Wave's experimental computer truly relies on quantum mechanics — IBM questions the performance of D-Wave's quantum computer — IBM charges that a D-Wave quantum computer run by Google actually relies on good old-fashioned classical physics
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Google goes to war on ‘fraudulent’ YouTube video views — Says inflated counts are misleading fans and 'undermining one of YouTube's most important and unique qualities' — YouTube visitors watch more than six billion hours of video every month, but not all of those eyeballs are real.| Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Dell, AMD unveil 64-bit proof-of-concept ARM microservers — AMD, Dell See Opportunity in ARM Server Market — A close look at the AMD Opteron ARM development kit on display at the Open Compute Summit last week. (Photo: Colleen Miller) — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Just two months …
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HTC to redesign phones after losing Nokia patent suit — Summary: Some handsets will be modified to sidestep a German court ruling, in order to minimize disruption to customers while it appeals against the decision. — HTC will redesign some of its smartphones after losing a court ruling … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Orchestrate Replaces Multiple NoSQL Databases With A Single API — The days when developers built their applications on a single database are long over. Many services today use a variety of databases - and especially NoSQL databases - to power the different aspects of their applications.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Meet the Asus Chromebox, a $179 fanless mini-desktop — Asus' new Chromebox is a nice step up from Samsung's model. — Asus — Google's Chrome OS continues to show up on more and more devices, and while the majority of them are laptops, it looks like desktop users are going to have quite a few options as well.
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| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: |
‘It Was Just the Dumbest Luck’ — Facebook's First Employees Look Back — Dustin Moskovitz thought he might go to business school. Or graduate school. Maybe he would work in technology. Mostly he just wanted to graduate. — It was early 2004 and Moskovitz was in his second year at Harvard … Thanks:@sfiegerman
| John Brownlee / Fast Co Design: |
IBM offers companies tools to apply AI for analyzing their customers' social media streams — IBM's Next Big Thing: Psychic Twitter Bots — USING THE POWER OF THE WATSON SUPERCOMPUTER, YOUR BANK COULD SOON BE STALKING YOU ON TWITTER. AND THAT MIGHT NOT BE A BAD THING.| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Elementum spun out of Flextronics, gets $44M to put mobile supply chain software in the cloud — Flextronics Spins Off Startup to Put Supply Chain Software in the Cloud — Using software to track the movements of goods through global supply chains is one of the last areas to move to the cloud.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
DARPA publishes all its open source code in one place — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsors a lot of technology through grants to universities and private labs, with projects running the gamut from robots to electroencephalography caps, to software and new programming languages.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
comScore: Apple ends 2013 with 41.8% US smartphone share, Samsung hits 26.1%; Android back to losing share — In the US, Apple's dominance as the top smartphone OEM hit a new high at the end of last year: 41.8 percent. Samsung gained share faster than its main competitor for six months straight … Sponsor Posts
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