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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Exclusive: CBS forced CNET staff to recast vote after Hopper won ‘Best in Show’ at CES  —  The Dish Network's Hopper wasn't simply in the running: it had actually taken the top prize  —  On Friday, news broke that CNET had been forced by its parent company CBS to remove the Dish Network's Hopper set-top box …
Lindsey Turrentine / CNET:
The 2013 Best of CES Awards: CNET's story  —  The true story of what happened before last week's Best of CES Awards unveiling  —  Last week, about 40 members of the CNET editorial staff met in the CNET trailer in the parking lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center to vote on our official Best of CES winner.
Bloomberg:
Dell Said to Be in Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms  —  Dell Inc. (DELL), the personal-computer maker that lost almost a third of its value last year, is in buyout talks with private-equity firms, two people with knowledge of the matter said.  The shares surged.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Dell Considers Going Private, Again  —  Shares of computer and IT company Dell are soaring and were briefly halted on word of a report by Bloomberg News that the company is in talks to go private.  —  Bloomberg's chatty banker sources say that Dell is in talks to do a deal with at least two private equity firms.
More: DailyFinance.com and Reuters.  Tweets: @spencerchen
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Cuts Orders for iPhone Parts  —  Apple Inc. has cut its component orders for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday.  —  Apple's orders for screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half …
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation Targeting Governments, Others  —  An advanced and well-orchestrated computer spy operation that targeted diplomats, governments and research institutions for at least five years has been uncovered by security researchers in Russia.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Janrain Raises $33M From Salesforce, And Others For Social Log-In Management Platform  —  Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures …
More: Oregonian
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft just teased the next Xbox at CES  —  More signs point to a future of augmented reality Xbox gaming  —  Microsoft didn't have a booth or even an official press event at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, but that didn't stop the company from jumping on stage twice.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Gartner Says Q4 PC Shipments Down 5% To 90.3M Units, HP Edges Out Lenovo, And Windows 8 Fizzles As Multiscreen Theory Fails To Materialize  —  If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner …
Ben Child / Guardian:
John McAfee movie in the works  —  Film rights to strange story of technology maven and his flight to Guatemala bought by Warner Brothers  —  Hollywood is to bring the bizarre story of technology pioneer John McAfee, who fled his luxury home in Belize after his neighbour was found murdered, to the big screen.
Ben Kersey / The Verge:
BlackBerry 10 sees 15,000 app submissions in less than two days  —  RIM will be facing an uphill battle when it does eventually launch BlackBerry 10, but the company is making sure it'll have a healthy selection of apps from the get-go by incentivizing developers.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
HP Memo Confirms Layoffs and New Directions at Autonomy  —  Hewlett-Packard just let employees in its Autonomy business unit know that there are going to be some layoffs and some further changes to the business, including a boost to research and development spending.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YC-Backed Photo-Sharing Service PicPlum Loses One Co-Founder To Twitter, Development To Continue In Other's “Spare Time”  —  Is this the beginning of the end for PicPlum, the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing and printing startup that debuted back in the summer 2010?

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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
YouTube, the RIAA, and SAG-AFTRA express support for the reintroduced NO FAKES Act, which standardizes rules around making AI copies of a person's likeness

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Media and tech stocks jump after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with WBD closing up 17%+, Netflix up 8%+, Disney up 12%+, and Meta up 14%+

Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles

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