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February 10, 2014, 12:05 PM

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Gavin Andresen / Bitcoin Foundation:

Contrary to Mt. Gox's Statement, Bitcoin is not at fault — The issues that Mt. Gox has been experiencing are due to an unfortunate interaction between Mt. Gox's implementation of their highly customized wallet software, their customer support procedures, and their unpreparedness …

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Nermin Hajdarbegovic / CoinDesk:

Price Drops as Mt. Gox Blames Bitcoin Flaw for Withdrawal Delays — Mt. Gox has issued a statement in an effort to address concerns raised by users after it suspended bitcoin withdrawals late last week. The exchange insists it is working hard to address a technical issue that has made it impossible for users to make transfers.

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Rob Wile / Business Insider:

Bitcoin Developer: Yes, There's A Flaw In Bitcoin But It Shouldn't Have Brought Down MtGox — Bitcoin prices are down big this morning as MtGox, a major Bitcoin exchange, announced it was continuing to suspended withdrawals denominated in Bitcoin while it addressed a technical glitch.

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Julia La Roche / Business Insider:

Carl Icahn Gives Up On Apple Buyback Plan — Billioniare investor Carl Icahn says that there's no reason to persist with Apple buyback proposal, according to new letter. — Icahn has amassed a huge stake in Apple. — He's also been suppotive of a stock buyback.

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Microsoft starts selling ASUS' VivoTab Note 8 for $329 — ASUS, like many other companies, took to CES 2014 to introduce a number of new products. Among these was the often-leaked VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet with support for Wacom pen input.

More: Gigaom, BetaNews, Electronista, The Tech Report, WinBeta, SlashGear, The Verge and PhoneArena

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8.1 Update 1 accommodates too many needs, proves design by committee never works — What the Heck is Happening to Windows? — Is it better to burn out than fade away? — When critics described Windows 8.1 as a step backwards, I disagreed: Responding to customer complaints is never wrong …

More: InfoWorld and WinBeta. Tweets: @thurrott and @carnage4life

Zal Bilimoria / Re/code:

Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over — Back in 2011, I was having an all-consuming love affair with tablets. At the time, I was the first-ever head of mobile at Netflix. I saw tablets in my sleep, running apps that would control homes, entertain billions and dutifully chug away at work.

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC breaks even in final months of 2013, but forecasts a losing start to new year — HTC's Q4 2013 financial numbers are out today and the company has suffered yet another decline in sales. Whereas the last quarter of 2012 returned NT$60 billion, the past year reached only NT$42.9 billion.

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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Pacemaker and Spotify cue up the iPad's simplest DJ app — A slick interface and 20 million tracks turn the tables on Traktor and Djay — Jonas Norberg built two great products that nobody used. The first was the award-winning Pacemaker, a wonderfully nerdy beatmaking gadget that cost $850.

More: App Advice, Evolver.fm, iDownloadBlog.com, Wired.co.uk, Pocket-lint, Cult of Mac, MusicRadar, Engadget, Spotify Blog, MacRumors, Digital Spy and SocialTimes

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen — The Internet behemoths Google and Facebook have proved they can still attract users and advertisers as their traffic shifts from desktops to mobile devices. — But at Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, the transition to a mobile world raises …

Tweets: @brad_frost, @collabfund and @brianbergstein

Help Net Security:

Trojan steals Bitcoins and targets OS X — SecureMac has discovered a new Trojan which targets OS X and spies on web traffic to steal Bitcoins. — The OSX/CoinThief.A malware has been found in the wild, and there are multiple user reports of stolen Bitcoins.

More: ZDNet, HotHardware.com News, Softpedia News, MacMegasite and CoinDesk

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

Change your passwords: Comcast hushes, minimizes serious hack — Summary: Opinion: Comcast took a page from Snapchat's playbook to hush and downplay NullCrew FTS' successful hack on dozens of Comcast's servers — from an unpatched, easy-to-fix vulnerability dated December 2013 — which most likely exposed customer data.

More: PC World and DSLreports. Tweets: @virusbtn

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