Anonymous is taking credit for a confirmed breach of security at the U.S. Department of Justice, although the exact contents of the data bounty are not yet known. “Today we are releasing 1.7 GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now,” reads an Anonymous press release, referring to the Department of Justice…

We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and Kickstarter just might be the most visible representation of that. When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers…

If there were some video chat corollary to Moore’s Law, ooVoo is adhering to it. Almost a year to the day after announcing six-way calls, the company is expanding its offerings to include 12-way chats on both Facebook and ooVoo’s iPad app…

YoYo Games has retrofitted an existing game engine to create GameMaker: Studio, a cross-platform development tool. It allows developers to create games easily and cheaply with a single programming code base…

How do you build the next billion-dollar company? Easy. Think of a basic human need and put it online. “I had this stupidly simple observation that maybe everyone else under 30 has already had,“ says Steve Blank…

Welcome to Day Two, folks. If Day One wasn’t enough for you, then you’re in for a real treat. We have a special product announcement at 11:20, Design Office Hours and an incredible list of Day Two Battlefield contestants…

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning… Kickstarted: My interview with Kickstarter founder Perry Chen (GigaOM) 14 amazing questions for BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith (Fast Company) E-mails reveal new details about Arianna’s role in HuffPo founding; “cover-up” alleged (paidContent) Forget reward points: AmEx gives users Farmville cash (GigaOM) Why the Waterstones/Amazon deal could hurt Waterstones (paidContent) Time Warner Cable head sides with TV networks over ad-erasing technology (NYT/Media Decoder) From cold calls to community building: ProPublica tries to make crowdsourcing more meaningful (Nieman Journalism Lab) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt files for bankruptcy (Publishers Weekly)

When you’re running late, you’re weighed-down with DIY in-flight entertainment and your gate number gets switched at the last minute, the last thing you need is a real-life human trying to be helpful. The Port Authority knows that, which is why it’s promising to install “computerized, hologram-like avatars” in La Guardia, Newark and JFK terminal buildings by early July…

Zynga announced today the launch of Zynga Serve Rewards, a new virtual game cash rewards program with a prepaid card that is co-branded with American Express and connected to the Serve digital wallet from the credit card company…

It was expected to cause the “destruction of community because [it encourages] far-flung operations and far-flung relationships.” At the same time, it was called the “antidote to provincialism.” It’s not Facebook…

DotLoop, a startup trying to bring real estate negotiations online, has raised a $7 million Series A from Trinity Ventures. The company says its software is already used by more than 200,000 real estate agents who serve more than 6 million buyers and sellers…