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February 5, 2014, 11:10 AM

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NBC News:

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...

More: VentureBeat, Inquirer, Techdirt, The Register, Gizmodo, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Motherboard, Errata Security, Graham Cluley, Gigaom, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK, Geeky Gadgets and Your Anon News

Tweets: @doublejake, @csoghoian, @ggreenwald, @thegrugq, @projpm, @trevortimm, @ioerror, @0xabad1dea, @ggreenwald, @justsikko and @mikko

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

Re/code:

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 …

More: The Information, CNET, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, 9to5Google, bizjournals, Mashable, hypebot, Marketing Pilgrim and Softpedia News

Tweets: @om and @kevinyen

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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.

More: The Next Web, Gigaom Research, tech.co and App Advice

Tweets: @jasonfried, @jonasdowney, @dhh, @anildash, @iansanders, @dancow, @whitneyhess and @iamashley

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.

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 …

More: Global Nerdy and Om Malik. Tweets: @reckless, @gassee and @ryanlawler. Thanks:@pavanrajam

Cade Metz / Wired:

Why Microsoft Got It Right With New CEO Satya Nadella

More: WordsByNowak, InfoWorld and TIME

Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Longtime Developer Scott Guthrie to Lead Microsoft's Server Group, for Now

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch and ReadWrite

Tweets: @angrypets and @vbandi

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

With Nadella's Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft

More: ZDNet

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

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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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

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.

More: Inquirer, Google Online Security Blog, Telegraph, BBC, Softpedia News, Techie News, WebProNews, FierceOnlineVideo News, Business ETC and BetaNews. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: Dell Community, The Register and ZDNet

Ryan Huang / ZDNet:

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 …

More: PC World, focustaiwan.tw, WinBeta, Pocketnow, BGR and Phandroid

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.

More: Gigaom, Silicon Florist, The Register, Wired and Forbes. Thanks:@turoczy

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.

More: Inquirer, AnandTech, Computerworld, Electronista, ZDNet, BetaNews, Pocket-lint and The Register

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.

More: Business Insider, Co.Design and SlashGear. Tweets: @paul_framp

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.

More: Elementum, ZDNet, silicontap.com, VentureBeat, Pulse 2.0, Forbes, PE Hub Blog, bizjournals and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: darpa.mil, Gizmodo, Wired, Engadget, darpa.mil, Network World and SlashGear

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 …

More: comScore, Inc., Electronista, Android Central, Inquirer, Marketing Land, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo and NYT Bits

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