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Court documents reveal ambivalence in how MIT assisted Aaron Swartz's prosecution — The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz — More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT's handling of the hacking case persist| Danny Bradbury / CoinDesk: |
What the IRS Bitcoin Tax Guidelines Mean For You — The US Internal Revenue Service finally announced its guidance for virtual currencies yesterday, explicitly referring to bitcoin (see the announcement here and notice here). The increased clarity - provided three weeks before the end of the US tax year … | Adam Levitin / Credit Slips: |
Last week's IRS ruling means bitcoins are not fungible, therefore unworkable as a currency — Bitcoin Tax Ruling — The IRS has spoken: Bitcoins are property, not currency. This was hardly a surprise, but it has some important implication that tells us a lot about what it takes to make a currency work.
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Entrepreneurs step up to help taxpayers track Bitcoin transactions, comply with IRS guidance — The Bitcoin Taxman Cometh: Calculating How Much Crypto-Investors Owe IRS Could Be Easy — With April 15 just weeks away, the IRS dropped its long-awaited “virtual currency guidance,” … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Longtime Windows and Office Executive Antoine Leblond Leaving Microsoft — Antoine Leblond, one of several Windows unit executives sidelined in a reorganization last year, is leaving Microsoft. — Leblond, who spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft, will leave the company after Monday — his 9,000th day at the company.| Laszlo Bock / Harvard Business Review: |
Google is two years into gDNA, a long-term study to understand employees' work-life balance — Google's Scientific Approach to Work-Life Balance (and Much More) — More than 65 years ago in Massachusetts, doctors began a longitudinal study that would transform our understanding of heart disease.
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Business Insider, The Verge, BGR, GovExec.com and 9to5Google
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Frustrated by popular fast following rip-offs like 2048, creators of Threes tout advantages of their 14-month development process — The Rip-offs & Making Our Original Game — It's been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny.| Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post: |
In new case, Supreme Court revisits the question of software patents — If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it. But for decades, software has had the distinction of being eligible for both copyright and patent protection.| Felix Salmon: |
Grand, immersive designs, increasingly common in journalism, vastly oversell smaller stories — Against beautiful journalism — Have you seen that site's gorgeous new redesign? Every article has a nice big headline, huge photos, loads of white space, intuitive and immersive scrolling …
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Teaching Online Journalism. Tweets: @clarkstream, @feliciasonmez, @nycsouthpaw, @kgittleson and @dylanlathrop
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HTC admits boosting One M8 benchmarks; makes it a feature — Some suspected the HTC One M8 of pumping up its processor for better benchmarks. HTC's response: Of course it does. In fact, it's now a feature. — If this phone wore pants, some think they would be on fire. — Brian Bennett/CNET
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PC Magazine, AmongTech, I4U News, Engadget, GSMArena Blog and AnandTech. Tweets: @geekyranjit. Thanks:@ericcmack
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
The Tech Bubble's Silver Lining: Cheap Services for Everyone — Box is losing money. A lot of money. In documents it filed for its initial public offering, the cloud-storage firm disclosed this week that it took in $124 million in 2013, but it spent $257 million.| Spiegel Online: |
GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies — Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database.
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The Intercept, The Verge, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Guardian, I4U News, Engadget, GSMArena Blog, TheHill and Mashable
Tweets: @glynmoody, @jimmy_wales, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @dymaxion
| Julie Zhuo / Medium: |
Facebook designer defends scaled-back News Feed redesign, noting low-res monitors are too common for big photos — Whatever's Best For The People, That's What We Do — Earlier today, Dustin Curtis wrote a post about the recent Facebook desktop redesign.
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Dustin Curtis, Business Insider, The Verge and Gizmodo
Tweets: @digitalmash, @joulee, @mikeisaac, @marcusf, @mat and @dcurtis
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