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Tech News Flash: Monday -- September 30, 2013

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Headline Scan
Reengineering Human Behavior Can Foil Phishing
France to Follow Through on Tiny Google Fine
Scientists Catch Up With Jedi in Understanding Light
BlackBerry and Surface 2: The Fight to Reclaim Past Glory
Valve: The Linux Steam Engine That Could?
If You're a Cinephile, You'll Love Mubi - if Not, It May Make You One
Evernote Gives Post-It Notes a 2nd Life

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Podcast
The Secrets of GTA's Massive Mainstream Success (20:53)
It's not every day that a video game becomes a mainstream tech story.
Then again, it's not every day that a video game promptly records $1
billion in sales. Grand Theft Auto V did just that, however, eclipsing
the 10-figure mark three days after its Sept. 17 release. The game's
success is an emphatic declaration that the GTA brand -- first
introduced in 1997 -- is still going strong.
http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/audio/tnw-vranicar-2013-09-28.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

Reengineering Human Behavior Can Foil Phishing
Almost all cyberattacks these days require an element of social
engineering. Spammers are always looking for that hot button to induce a
click on a link or an attachment. Drive-by artists continually
experiment with poisoned banner ads designed to steer the curious into
an online dark alley. Spearphishers put together persuasive pitches
pretending to be friends or a trusted institution.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79073.html

France to Follow Through on Tiny Google Fine
In France, data protection officials announced that they will impose
sanctions against Google for the company's failure to stick to a three-
month deadline to tweak its privacy policies. The fine stems from
Google's melding of different privacy policies in Europe into a single
policy that applies to all its platforms -- Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and
so on.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79075.html

Scientists Catch Up With Jedi in Understanding Light
Scientists from Harvard, MIT and CIT have demonstrated that light can
behave in a way previously observed only in science fiction -- that is,
photons can bond and create a molecule. The fundamental properties of
light derive from the fact that photons, which are the quanta of light,
do not interact with one another. Two crossed beams of light pass
through each other, for example.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79066.html

BlackBerry and Surface 2: The Fight to Reclaim Past Glory
Both BlackBerry and Microsoft have been in far stronger positions with
regard to personal technology. At one time, Microsoft was contending for
leadership in smartphones against Palm and BlackBerry, and BlackBerry
took leadership only to lose it to Apple and then Samsung. Microsoft put
tablets on the map in the early part of last decade, but it missed a
memo and Apple refined them to success.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79056.html

Valve: The Linux Steam Engine That Could?
Valve cofounder Gabe Newell has made no secret of his disdain for
Windows 8 and his newfound love for Linux as a gaming platform over the
past year or so. It seems fair to say, however, that few here in the
Linux community expected the colossal bear hug of support Valve gave
our favorite operating system last week. First, it announced SteamOS;
then it was the hardware side.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79070.html

If You're a Cinephile, You'll Love Mubi - if Not, It May Make You One
MUBI is an app for classic and independent movie lovers: Each day, the
MUBI team hand picks an international, independent or classic film. MUBI
subscribers can then view that film for up to 30 days, and effectively,
this means that you can watch 30 or so movies each month for $4.99, or
less per month if you sign up for six months or a year. The MUBI app is
fantastic.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79060.html

Evernote Gives Post-It Notes a 2nd Life
Evernote and 3M on Thursday announced a partnership to digitize the
Post-it Note with a new feature on the Evernote app optimized to capture
and save messages. The iOS 7 feature allows users to take a picture of a
Post-it within Evernote, and that image is then digitally enhanced as an
Evernote image. Users can save the image according to Post-it color or
add a reminder regarding a specific note.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79062.html

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