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April 1, 2013, 4:06 AM

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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy — SAY you've come across a discount online retailer promising a steal on hand-stitched espadrilles for spring. You start setting up an account by offering your e-mail address — but before you can finish, there's a ping on your phone. A text message.

More: AdExchanger, Stowe Boyd and ECPM BLOG

Tweets: @joshconstine, @smwat and @pkafka

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

Angry Twitterers Are Threatening To Switch To Bing After Google Honors Labor Leader Cesar Chavez On Easter — Google's decision to celebrate Cesar Chavez's birthday today in its Doodle, rather than Easter, has spurred some mixed reviews on Twitter. — Cesar Chavez, whose 86th birthday would be today …

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Facebook Is Taking On Reddit's “Ask Me Anything” Series — The social network's newest feature could create a rival to Reddit's AMA giant — Watch out, Reddit. — This week, Facebook rolled out a new threaded comment feature, allowing users respond to specific comment in a conversation thread …

Tweets: @keithstoeckeler, @rktweets and @davewiner. Thanks:@steverubel

Danielle Morrill:

AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub — Updated at 1:53pm PST with comments from AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant. — On March 26th The Funders Club received a no-action letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it will not recommend enforcement action …

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @sbermo, @ryanspoon and @ronaldmannak. Thanks:@daniellemorrill

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Round Up: All of Google's jokes for April Fools 2013 — Every year, Google goes all out for April Fools' Day. The company not only pulls together more jokes than all the other tech giants, but the company makes a point to outdo itself too. It honestly gets difficult to keep track …

Scott Weiss:

The Building is the New Server — The personal computer is dead. As quickly as we moved from the desktop to the laptop, we are moving to the tablet — never to return. With the death of the PC, an entire ecosystem dies with it. The chipset is ARM based, rather than Intel.

Tweets: @qthrul and @wroloson

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Lowest Cost Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Now On Sale In The U.S. - $25 Model A Suited For Battery/Solar Powered Projects — The Raspberry Pi microcomputer prides itself on being affordable, with its tiny $35 price-tag for the original Model B Pi. But now its lowest cost board — the $25 Model A …

More: Ars Technica, Techie Buzz, NextBigWhat, Lifehacker, Geekosystem and Neowin

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

New book shares insights from Steve Jobs' 1st boss — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Steve Jobs adopted “think different” as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society.

More: Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle and The Register

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

World's top supercomputer from '09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled — Roadrunner, formerly the world's fastest supercomputer, is being decommissioned today. — Los Alamos National Laboratory — Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model the decay …

More: lanl.gov, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, PC Magazine and Gizmodo

Sandro Villinger / ITworld.com:

7 hidden gems in Windows Blue — Some yet-to-be unveiled facts and hints about what's coming to the Windows ecosystem in late 2013. — Windows Blue, leaked last Sunday. And a few days later, Microsoft publicly acknowledged its existence (coincidentally or not) in the announcement for its BUILD conference.

More: TechSpot and Neowin. Tweets: @h0x0d and @getwired

Bloomberg:

Michael Dell Said to Consider Blackstone LBO With CEO Guarantee — Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell will only consider backing a buyout by Blackstone Group LP if the private-equity firm guarantees he can remain as chief executive officer, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

More: AllThingsD and CNET

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo — Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc. and Dish Network Corp., as it looks to roll out its fledgling service …

More: CNET and The Verge

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