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Dara Kerr / CNET:
Guantanamo Wi-Fi shuttered after Anonymous hacking threat   —  In unity with the prison's inmates, the hacking group pledges to disrupt online activities at Guantanamo — prompting the U.S. military to shut down the bases' Wi-Fi.  —  After the hacking collective Anonymous launched …
May 21, 2013, 12:05 AMIn context
Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph:
Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army   —  The Financial Times website and two Twitter accounts belonging to the news organisation appear to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army today.  —  The breach, which took place just before 1pm BST, is just the latest in a spate …
May 17, 2013, 9:45 AMIn context
Steven Russolillo / MoneyBeat:
Google Tops $900 for First Time Ever … Google Inc. jumped above $900 on Wednesday for the first time ever, less than three months after the search giant's shares initially topped $800.  —  The move comes on the same day of the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco …
May 15, 2013, 12:10 PMIn context
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, an Open-Source Anonymous Tip Tool Built by Aaron Swartz   —  Technology gives journalists unprecedented power to track down information.  And technology gives lots of other people the ability to follow journalists' footprints.  Just ask the Associated Press.
May 15, 2013, 11:45 AMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
Tax-Free Web Shopping Nears End   —  Online shoppers, beware.  Freedom from sales taxes is on the way out.  Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online.
Apr 26, 2013, 9:10 AMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading   —  When the words “explosions” and “White House” popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action.  —  The computers, housed in the Madison Avenue headquarters …
Apr 25, 2013, 10:30 AMIn context
Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter Now Has a Two-Step Solution   —  Twitter has a working two-step security solution undergoing internal testing before incrementally rolling it out to users, something it hopes to begin doing shortly, Wired has learned.  —  Such a system will drastically reduce the risk of Twitter users having …
Apr 23, 2013, 10:05 PMIn context
Patti Domm / CNBC:
False Rumor of Explosion at White House Causes Stocks to Briefly Plunge; AP Confirms Its Twitter Feed Was Hacked   —  @AP, the official twitter handle of the respected Associated Press news agency, sent out a message at about 1:07 p.m. ET, saying “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is Injured.”
Apr 23, 2013, 2:00 PMIn context
Chris Welch / The Verge:
AP Twitter account hacked, makes false claim of explosions at White House   —  Anyone that follows the Associated Press on Twitter just heard “news” of an unprecedented national crisis.  “Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” the AP's account tweeted moments ago.
Apr 23, 2013, 1:28 PMIn context
Canadian Press:
BlackBerry CEO says new phones needed to stay relevant   —  Plans to roll out lower-priced models  —  BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins introduces the BlackBerry Z10 in New York on Jan. 30, 2013.  Heins says that the company will have to release new models in order to stay relevant.
Apr 1, 2013, 1:45 PMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Ademptio  —  Face it.  You love coding.  Or, you hate coding.  —  For those who really do love it, and for those who find that some of their best ideas happen when they are doing other things …
Cloud Foundry:
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Rackspace Blog:
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University makes major investment in big data development  —  As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.