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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to deliver Windows ‘Threshold’ tech preview around late September — Summary: Microsoft is aiming to make available a technology preview of Windows Threshold around late September or early October. — Microsoft is aiming to deliver a “technology preview” of its Windows “Threshold” …

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google buys city guides app Jetpac, support to end on September 15 — Google has acquired the team behind Jetpac, an iPhone app for crowdsourcing city guides from public Instagram photos. — The app will be pulled from the App Store in coming days, and support for the service will be discontinued on September 15.

More: Jetpac, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Reuters, Engadget, Tnooz, VentureBeat and 9to5Google

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role At Google Ventures To Build A New Startup Called North — Serial entrepreneur, investor, and overall Internet good guy Kevin Rose is stepping down from his role of general partner at Google Ventures. The Digg and Revision3 founder will be moving into a part …

More: Re/code, bizjournals, Valleywag, The Next Web, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @kevinrose, @jason, @qthrul, @dondodge, @alexalbrecht, @kevinrose, @kevinrose, @summertomato, @davemcclure and @pinboard

Thanks:@kylebrussell

Barton Gellman / Washington Post:

Spyware tools allow buyers to slip malicious code into YouTube videos, Microsoft pages — CloudShield Technologies, a California defense contractor, dispatched a senior engineer to Munich in the early fall of 2009. His instructions were unusually opaque. — As he boarded the flight …

More: The Intercept, The Citizen Lab, The Register, The Verge and Gizmodo

Tweets: @youranonnews, @ciphersuite, @evacide, @csoghoian, @kaepora, @dangillmor, @ashk4n, @anonyops, @dangoodin001, @csoghoian and @thomas_drake1

Heise:

GCHQ's “HACIENDA” program completed full port scans targeting 27 countries — NSA/GCHQ: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization — Translations of this article are available in German, French, Italian and Spanish. — Since the early days of TCP …

More: IETF Datatracker, tum.de, PC World, The Register and Gigaom

Tweets: @fredericjacobs, @ashk4n and @cyberwar

Mike Williams / BBC:

UK Premier League warns about posting goal videos, says it's developing tech to find violators — Premier League warns about posting goal videos online — The Premier League has told Newsbeat they're going to clamp down on fans posting unofficial videos of goals online.

More: TorrentFreak, Ars Technica, The Verge, Plagiarism Today, TechnoBuffalo, Inquirer, Slate, Gizmodo UK, The Register, The Next Web, Light Reading, Gizmodo, Guardian, Electronista, Gigaom, ITProPortal, Techdirt and Engadget. Tweets: @kevinmccauley. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple adds key Vice Presidents, more diversity to executive leadership page — Apple today has expanded its Executive Leadership Team to include notable Apple Vice Presidents. The team shown on Apple's official PR Bios website now includes Vice President of Special Projects Paul Deneve …

More: MacRumors, ReadWrite, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, Mercury News, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, iMore, App Advice, MacNN and iLounge. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@allegrotechie

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Profile of Gavin Andresen, who succeeded Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin Core's chief developer — Meet Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin — In March, a bewildered retired man faced journalists yelling questions about virtual currency outside his suburban home in Temple City, California.

More: Gigaom. Tweets: @techreview. Thanks:@srikardr

Laura Stampler / TIME:

Facebook: 1.2M unique ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos posted, and 15M people discussed it — This Is How Many Ice Bucket Challenge Videos People Have Posted on Facebook — Hint: It's more than a million. — If you thought that the only thing on your Facebook Newsfeed right now was videos …

More: Business Insider, SlashGear, Inside Facebook, Mashable, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, WebProNews and The Verge

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

IBM, Lenovo server deal gets final clearance from US regulators — Summary: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the $2.3 billion sale of IBM's x86 server business to Chinese PC maker Lenovo. — IBM received good news from the Committee on Foreign Investment …

More: The Register, Bloomberg, Re/code, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

DataRobot, Run by World's Top Data Scientists, Raises $21M Series A … Even before launching its full-scale service that cranks out algorithms for use by data scientists, DataRobot Inc. has nabbed a $21 million Series A round at a $60 million pre-money valuation, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

More: Luminal, Talkin' Cloud, BetaBoston and VentureBeat

Richard Harper / Inside Microsoft Research:

Microsoft says WindUp, their Snapchat-like app, is for noncommercial, research purposes only — WindUp: Researching Patterns of Content Creation and Exchange — Given erroneous press reports about our research, as the lead for a Microsoft Research project called WindUp, I want to clarify our project's objectives.

More: TruTower, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin, Forbes, PC Tech Magazine, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, TechOne3, CIO.com, Digital Trends, ITProPortal, WMPoweruser and Neowin

Tweets: @tomwarren and @msftnews

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires Ad Startup ClarityRay — Israel-based ad startup ClarityRay announced on its website that it has been acquired by Yahoo. — A Yahoo spokesperson sent me the following statement confirming the deal: … I first wrote about ClarityRay two years ago after it raised $500,000 in funding from its chairman Saar Wilf.

More: ClarityRay and VentureBeat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

FAA rules pilots without commercial licenses can't use startups like AirPooler to share rides — FAA Bans Planesharing Startups — There will be no “ZimRide for airplanes”, according to an FAA ruling released today that prohibits private pilots from publicly offering seats on their planes …

More: The Verge, TechHive, Electronista, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Engadget and BetaBoston

Tweets: @fredericl, @qthrul and @_alexlawrence

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