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Martin SFP Bryant
FounderMartin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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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