How was your weekend? I seemed to spend most of mine answering email, which I don’t think is the way you’re supposed to relax between working weeks. If you were far more sensible and took some downtime, here’s a chance to catch up with the tech news you missed, along with interesting reads from The Next Web and beyond.
In the news
- Twitter says that it was hacked and 250,000 users may have been compromised
- Kim Dotcom launches Mega vulnerability reward program, offering up to $13,500 per bug
- Driven by developing countries, Wikipedia passes 3bn monthly mobile page views, aims for 4bn by June
- Windows 7 drops below 70% adoption on Steam, while Windows 8 passes Windows Vista and Ubuntu grabs 1%
- Airbnb could be banned in Amsterdam: Local authorities are now hunting for illegal hotels
- Typing these eight characters will crash almost any application on your Mac
- Wine for Linux is going mobile: You will soon be able to run Windows apps on Android
- Nearly a week ahead of its release date, Microsoft’s Surface Pro shows up in retail stores
- Android malware emerges on Google Play which installs a trojan on your PC, uses your microphone to record you
- Why automated DMCA takedown requests are asinine: HBO asked Google to censor links to HBO.com
- Microsoft will not offer Surface RT tablet owners retail price trade-ins for Surface Pro upgrades
Useful reads
- The Redditlet bookmarklet brings the best of Reddit to the website you are current reading
- 40 of the most beautiful typeface designs released this January
Interesting stories from beyond The Next Web
- FTC Still Seems More Interested In Making Headlines Than Really Protecting Privacy [TechDirt]
- The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It [Wired]
- This Facebook page you like is actually spam [The Daily Dot]
- New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain [io9]
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