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RT @Techmeme: Tim Cook Says Apple Working on 'Some Really Great Stuff' in New Product Categories (@jlgolson)

RT @Techmeme: Tim Cook Says Apple Working on 'Some Really Great Stuff' in New Product Categories (@jlgolson)

Of course, most people won't know this. How would they? As such, the rating system filters out all those who are wanting to give Dungeon Keeper a less desirable review. People like our Dan Whitehead who rated the app a 1/10.

Finally, to reiterate, while all three devices looked like they had been compromised with no user interactions that was just not the case. Incorrect impressions may have been formed due to the editing process; no zero-days were used and all infections required plenty of risky behavior to succeed.

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FORTUNE -- A fitness expert. A sleep scientist. A pair of high-profile CEOs from the fashion industry. Lots of hardware and software engineers with expertise in wireless, non-invasive bionsensing -- measuring everything from respiration rates to glucose and oxygen levels in the blood.

Actual US oversight of IANA is mostly theoretical—the US didn’t interfere technically, for instance, when ICANN added .xxx to the list of top-level domains even though the US opposed the move—but it has nevertheless become a powerful symbol for other governments, all of whom have come to rely on a resource that is theoretically under the control of the US. Many governments are loudly insisting that the US devolve its power to the UN or another suitable intergovernmental body, while ICANN and some of its supporters appear to want complete independence. Meanwhile, much of the government interference through the ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (yes, it’s pronounced gack) is idiotic. For instance, the French government currently objects to the proposed .vin (wine) top-level domain on the grounds that vin is a term that is regulated under French law. ICANN has also adopted corporatist rules for domain names, such as the Trademark +50 rule that allows trademark holders to reserve not only their trademark in every new top-level domain, but 50 variants and misspellings of their choice.

Control Chrome from the command line in OSX

Comcast, the largest internet service provider in the United States, ignored news of the serious breach in press and media for over 24 hours — only when the Pastebin page was removed did the company issue a statement, and even then, it only spoke to a sympathetic B2B outlet.

Transaction malleability has been known about since 2011. In simplest of terms, it is a small window where transaction ID’s can be “renamed” before being confirmed in the blockchain. This is something that cannot be corrected overnight. Therefore, any company dealing with Bitcoin transactions and have coded their own wallet software should responsibly prepare for this possibility and include in their software a way to validate transaction ID’s. Otherwise, it can result in Bitcoin loss and headache for everyone involved.

Billioniare investor Carl Icahn says that there's no reason to persist with his Apple buyback proposal, according to new letter.

The OSX/CoinThief.A malware has been found in the wild, and there are multiple user reports of stolen Bitcoins. The malware, which comes disguised as an app to send and receive payments on Bitcoin Stealth Addresses, instead covertly monitors all web browsing traffic in order to steal login credentials for Bitcoin wallets.

With Update 1, however, I'm beginning to question the validity of this new direction, and am now wondering whether Microsoft has simply fallen into an all-too-familiar trap of trying to please everyone, and creating a product that is ultimately not ideal for anyone.

A new shipment of unlocked 5s phones had just come in, he said, adding that the gold model I asked for was the most popular in Europe and the easiest to resell. To my right, a man with a credit card from a Saudi bank was trying to buy his third and fourth phones of the day. “Make it two,” I said. There was one more step: The salesman grabbed a landline from behind the counter to connect me with my bank’s antifraud department. Purchases from this store, he said, are red flags.

Felton had effectively turned himself into a series of charts, graphs, and spreadsheets. He could cross reference his mood with his productivity, or he could simply measure the amount of time he spent with his girlfriend Olga. Since 2005, Felton has been living the quantified self dream: a life where everything’s measured. Most recently, he began documenting his life several times per day with a custom mobile app. Today, he’s bringing his app to the masses so anyone can measure life the way he has, for $3.99. It’s called Reporter.

Absolutely 0% of the story was about turning on a computer and connecting to a Sochi network. 100% of the story was about visiting websites remotely. Thus, the claim of the story that you'll get hacked immediately upon turning on your computers is fraudulent. The only thing that can be confirmed by the story is "don't let Richard Engel borrow your phone".

EBay seller pindrus is selling his 16-gigabyte iPhone 5s with the game pre-installed -- and bidders are flocking to the item in droves. While the auction began yesterday at $650, 22 bidders have thus far made a total of 74 bids for the used phone with roughly six days left until the item is sold.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan led American philanthropists in charitable giving by a wide berth last year. According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Zuckerberg's donation of 18 million Facebook shares in December jumped to a total value of more than $990 million, making it the largest public gift on record for 2013.

Could this have anything to do with the launch of their new Xfinity Online Streaming service, which doesn’t go against your data caps? Possibly. It’s actually quite likely, if you think about it. If you were an automaker who happened to own a highway, it might make sense to let your brand of car drive in the fast lane for free, while competitor’s cars were forced to sit in the toll booth line for hours. All analogies aside, that’s where I’m afraid we’re headed: having the Internet reduced to a crappy bundle of subscription cable channels where companies like Comcast dictate the content. Since I already send Comcast a $50 check every month for access to the Internet, one of humanity’s greatest technological achievements, I would like to decide what content I consume and have all traffic treated the same by Comcast’s network. As a consumer, I don’t really have a choice between competing companies here, so the FCC needs to step in and ensure that all Internet traffic is treated fairly by ISPs. If we’re not careful, dreaded cable company monopolies may someday extend into cyberspace. Now that is a frightening thought.

Leo's tool?

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

“There was a point where I had to be like, OK, this is way too distracting,” Anderson said. “I deleted my account to focus on the Olympics.”

How big a thing could Touch ID mobile payment be? China alone hit $1.6 trillion last year

Windows 8 designer: Why Microsoft forced Metro on us all

If you try to compare this acquisition with other big acquisitions of tech startups, you quickly realize that in terms of scale, there really is no comparison. Here’s an incomplete list of other deals north of $1 billion made over the past 15 years, mostly involving the purchasing of a startup superstar by a large, well-established tech company. None of them reach the total of $19 billion that WhatsApp is getting, and the one that comes closest — HP’s acquisition of EDS — involved an acquisition of a company that was making around $22 billion a year in revenue.

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure.

Leo's pick

RT @gigaom: WSJ: Apple to release two bigger iPhones, abandon plastic iPhone 5c design