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President Obama issued a mandate yesterday ordering government agencies to make their data "open and machine-readable." Perhaps soon you'll have a machine to read Betabeat for you. [Ars Technica]

The U.S. government has been buying up cyberweapons that rely on software holes in widely used programs to attack computers overseas, but that means it doesn't want everyday consumers to know about their own computers' vulnerabilities.  [Reuters]

The International Space Station was using Windows up until now, apparently, which seems ill-advised? They've finally switched to Linux. [Extreme Tech]

Oh, you got verified on Twitter? Whatever, I don't even want to be. [The Awl]

Cybercriminals stole $45 million from ATMs across the world in a matter of hours, and their ringleader was a 20-something kid from Brooklyn. [New York Times]

Amazon is reportedly building its own smartphone and it's going to have a 3D screen. [Wall Street Journal]

Elon Musk in SpaceX Mission Control

Weather permitting, it looks like Elon Musk and his SpaceX aerospace startup will ride their Dragon cargo capsule into a shiny new era of private enterprise in space Sunday night, when Dragon is set to launch from Cape Canaveral on its first trip to the International Space Station (ISS).

The New York Times reports on Dragon's payload:

The rocket will lift a cargo-only capsule called Dragon that contains about 1,000 pounds of food, clothing, equipment and science experiments, including 23 designed and built by students. The goods would arrive on Wednesday, and the capsule would stay docked at the space station for a few weeks. “It actually marks the beginning of true commercial spaceflight to take cargo to the International Space Station for us,” Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., the NASA administrator, said during a video chat on Google Plus on Friday.

Dragon's launch time is set for 8:35 p.m. Eastern Time. If the weather holds (Accuweather predicts "patchy clouds"), then Elon Musk's path to taking humans to Mars by 2025 will be well underway.