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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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Guardian, BetaBoston, Forbes and The Atlantic Online
| 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 …
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TechCrunch and Ars Technica
| Marcella Bombardieri / The Boston Globe: |
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
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| Tim Harford / Financial Times: |
Big data's challenge: gain new insight without making the same old statistical mistakes — Big data: are we making a big mistake? — Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media
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Martin Goodson. Tweets: @tlberglund, @bayesian_stats, @dkthomp, @daniele_manca, @jangles, @infoarbitrage, @dangillmor and @timharford
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A marketer's amusing “Breakup Letter” to Facebook over News Feed algorithm changes — A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24 — Hey. It's Eat24. Look, we need to talk. This isn't easy to say since we've been together so long, but we need to break up.
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Tweets: @bbhlabs, @openculture, @dangillmor, @thomashawk, @pernillet, @robynhobson, @mcandrew and @eat24
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Why the NSA targets Huawei: it's displacing western-built networking equipment in many regions — How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA's Surveillance Nightmare — The NSA's global spy operation may seem unstoppable, but there's at least one target that has proven to be a formidable obstacle … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox clarifies takedown policy, compares file hashes to identify infringing shared links — How Dropbox Knows When You're Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff) — Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file …
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| 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.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC wants to deliver great design regardless of price point, market the product not the brand — One more time: can HTC thrive in a Samsung world? — The new One is the best device HTC has ever made, but it doesn't erase the company's challenges — “If it wasn't for the One … | Eric Mack / CNET: |
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| 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 and GovExec.com
| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Mt. Gox faced questions on handling client cash long before crisis — (Reuters) - Two years before Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy, a half dozen employees at the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange challenged CEO Mark Karpeles over whether client money was being used to cover costs …
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SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, The Register, VentureBeat, CoinDesk and newsBTC. Tweets: @mbusigin
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Report: Motorola's share of UK smartphone sales climbs to 6% from ‘almost nothing’ in 6 months — According to data from a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report for the three months to February 2014, Motorola's budget Moto G device has helped boost the company from “almost nothing” …
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Kantar Worldpanel News …, Inquirer, BetaNews, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Central and Ubergizmo
| Julian Sanchez / The Daily Beast: |
Of the three main NSA reform proposals, the USA Freedom Act limits the NSA powers the most — The Best NSA Fix Comes From the Patriot Act's Author — The White House would stop NSA's phone dragnet, but leave the power behind it intact. An unlikely Republican's bill does better.
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TheHill, Motherboard, Salon, SlashGear, Guardian, Guardian, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Just Security and Guardian
Tweets: @ramez, @normative, @thedailybeast and @emptywheel
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