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At the eleventh hour, a security bug was discovered in Facebook's "Midnight Delivery" feature, which made it possible to see and even delete users' New Year's messages to friends. Whoops! It's been fixed. [TNW]

As part of a plan to cut costs, Zynga has shut down a raft of games over the course of December. The latest: PetVille and Mafia Wars 2. [TechCrunch]

Guess Nate Silver's election-day triumph didn't singlehandedly slay the gut feeling in favor of big data, after all: "What is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?" [New York Times]

Techies we lost in 2012. [Wired]

"But there is a darker possibility, too, which is that some people will own workbots before other people do, and that the people who lack workbots won’t be able to keep up with those to do." Happy New Year, ya'll! [New Yorker]