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April 22, 2014, 10:50 AM

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Lytro's new Illum light-field camera targets professional photographers, costs $1599 — Lytro changed photography — now can it get anyone to care? — An exclusive look at the company's new Illum camera — “Okay, can I take it out of the box now?” — Lytro product director Colvin Pitts wants …

More: Engadget, TIME, Re/code, The Next Web, Fortune, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, USA Today, Gizmodo, blogs.ft.com, Softpedia News, Imaging Insider, PC Pro, Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNET, Co.Design and Mashable

Tweets: @mattbuchanan, @jasonrosenthal and @joshuatopolsky

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Study: households spent 10% less at Amazon in states where online sales tax introduced — Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is taking a hit in states that are collecting an online sales tax. — In one of the first efforts to quantify the impact …

More: USA Today, Business Insider, SlashGear and Bloomberg View

Tweets: @bloombergnews, @maudnewton and @puiwingtam

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BBC:

Reddit removes r/Technology from high-exposure “default subreddits” list after censorship row — Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship — Technology is no longer listed at the top of new Reddit members' screens — Social news site Reddit has downgraded the status of its …

More: Daily Dot, Washington Post, memeburn, Engadget, SiliconBeat, Network World, Mashable, NEWS.com.au and Lastest ITProPortal news

Tweets: @anjiecast and @rj_gallagher

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Cisco, Netgear router patch for backdoor vulnerability merely hides it, does not fix it — Easter egg: DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it — Just what you wanted for Easter: a re-gifted backdoor from Christmas. — First, DSL router owners got an unwelcome Christmas present.

More: TechEye. Tweets: @fkarlitschek

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Julie Ann Horvath and Theresa Preston-Werner respond as GitHub announces founder's resignation — A Beloved Silicon Valley Startup Is Under Fire For The Way A Female Employee Was Treated — The GitHub Fiasco, Explained — Last year, GitHub appeared to be the perfect Silicon Valley startup.

More: Medium, Medium and Slate

Tweets: @nrrrdcore and @nrrrdcore

Chris Wanstrath / GitHub:

GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner resigns after investigation finds errors of judgment but no gender-based harassment

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Discovery Is Selling HowStuffWorks.com for $45 Million, About 20% What it Paid for the Site in 2007 — For Discovery Communications Inc., the website HowStuffWorks.com proved to be one investment in digital media that didn't work. — Discovery said Monday it would sell the site …

More: Bloomberg, bizjournals, Pulse 2.0 and TheDomains.com

Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

Why can Nike dump the Fuelband? With friends like Apple, it doesn't need its own hardware — If you want to track your fitness with Nike software, you're probably going to have to use Apple products. — The news that Nike had laid off a majority of its digital sport hardware engineering team …

More: Ars Technica, BGR, MacRumors, GeekTime, Telegraph, stratechery, Wired, Digiday, Geek Beat, ExtremeTech and MacDailyNews

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Aol Mail Hacked With Spoofed Accounts Sending Spam — It's not just you. Aol Mail was hacked affecting an untold amount of accounts that were seemingly spoofed. The Twitter hashtag #aolhacked is filled with first-hand accounts of spam being sent from either the hacked email account …

More: Gigaom, Los Angeles Times and Brian Alvey. Thanks:@brianalvey

Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed:

CEO Of “Russian Facebook” Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies — So ends the slow unravelling of independence at VKontakte, Russia's most popular social network. — VKontakte founder Pavel Durov in 2012. — Nadine Rupp / Getty Images

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Lastest ITProPortal news, Softpedia News, Phys.org, The Province, RT, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Salon and TheHill

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T copies Google, names 100 cities where it could offer gigabit fiber — Two months after Google announced that it will try to bring fiber Internet to 34 cities in nine metro areas, AT&T today said it will “expand its ultra-fast fiber network to up to 100 candidate cities and municipalities nationwide …

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Danny Boyle in Talks to Direct Steve Jobs Movie, Leonardo DiCaprio Eyed to Star (Exclusive) — Danny Boyle, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio — “The Beach” director is said to want to reteam with DiCaprio on the Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic of the iconic Apple co-founder.

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period” — Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter — New Netflix subscribers could soon be forced to pay a bit …

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share

More: ZDNet, ABC News, Gigaom, WebProNews, CNBC, PR Newswire, Business Insider and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @pkafka. Thanks:@mjburnsy. See also Mediagazer

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Verizon's data breach report: Point-of-sale, Web app attacks take center stage — Summary: Hotels, retailers and restaurants really need to lock down their point-of-sale systems, but don't have to sweat Web app attacks as much as financial services companies do.

More: Re/code, Inquirer, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Reuters

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Airbnb Scrubs Thousands Of Listings From ‘Bad Actor’ Hosts Ahead Of NY Subpoena Hearing — In preparation for oral arguments being held in its New York subpoena case tomorrow, Airbnb is eliminating dozens of listings on its site from hosts who have been accused of being bad actors and running illegal hotel operations on the platform.

More: The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, New York Times, BBC, The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, New York Post, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Engadget, Fortune, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Reuters, NYConvergence.com and New York Times. Tweets: @startupljackson

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Judge invalidates two Intellectual Ventures patents, ending lawsuit against Capital One before jury trial — For world's biggest troll, first patent case ends up in tatters — Intellectual Ventures founder Nathan Myhrvold reads Slashdot. — Intellectual Ventures

More: InfoWorld, Reuters and Intellectual Ventures

Tweets: @cmuratori, @glennf, @colindoncaster, @gerald_awo and @fedcourtjunkie

Dan Levy / Bloomberg:

LinkedIn to fully lease 26-floor tower in San Francisco with about 450K sq. ft. office space — LinkedIn Said to Fully Lease Tishman's San Francisco Tower — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) has agreed to fully lease a San Francisco office tower being built by Tishman Speyer Properties LP …

Tweets: @percival

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

Police used aircraft over Compton, CA in 2012 to capture hi-res zoomable surveillance video — Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City — A sergeant in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department compared the experiment to Big Brother, even though he went ahead with it willingly.

More: John Battelle's Search Blog and SlashGear. Tweets: @spytalker, @jenniferpreston and @kashhill

Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger:

Adobe Social Index: Facebook Leads Other Platforms In Referred Revenue — Despite some volatility in ad pricing and performance last quarter, Adobe Index's Q1 2014 Social Media Intelligence Report indicates Facebook remains the leader in driving revenue per visit (RPV).

More: Business Insider, ZDNet, CNET, Gigaom, Inside Facebook and The Next Web

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns — Netflix has come out in opposition of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, writing in a letter to shareholders that the merger would give the combined service provider “even more anticompetitive leverage” …

More: BGR, Softpedia News and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast: Netflix's Opposition to Time Warner Cable Deal Is About Shifting Costs to All Broadband Users

More: Comcast Voices, Washington Post, TechCrunch, ZDNet, New York Times, Dan Rayburn, Re/code, VentureBeat and Re/code

Tweets: @startupljackson, @ceciliakang and @pkafka

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