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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Tech Companies, Bristling, Concede to Federal Surveillance Program — When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled.
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Tweets: @adrianchen, @scepticgeek, @arrington, @joshuatopolsky, @jwherrman, @clairecm, @dannysullivan, @mathewi, @declanm, @dannysullivan, @mathewi, @dannysullivan and @pkafka
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
No evidence of NSA's ‘direct access’ to tech companies — Sources challenge reports alleging National Security Agency is “tapping directly into the central servers.” Instead, they say, the spy agency is obtaining orders under process created by Congress. — The National Security Agency …
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| James Ball / Guardian: |
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do — Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms — • Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance — Since Prism was first revealed …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @csoghoian and @ggreenwald
| Google: |
From +David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer: We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop box. Nor have we received blanket orders of the kind being discussed in the media. It is quite wrong to insinuate otherwise.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Cowards — Will not one tech CEO stand up and tell the truth? — The NSA story of the secret assassination of the Fourth Amendment continues to unfold. Today we heard from Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — Page was confused (the title of his post is “What the...?).
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| Marc Ambinder / The Week: |
Solving the mystery of PRISM — What exactly is PRISM? How does it work? Who uses it? Let's assume that the companies whose data is sucked in by a National Security Agency tool called PRISM are denying their knowledge of the word and its associations in good faith.| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Through a PRISM darkly: Tracking the ongoing NSA surveillance story — The past few days have seen a blizzard of leaks about surveillance activity by the government's ultra-secret NSA arm, including data collection from phone companies and internet giants. Here is what you need to know about this developing story.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM — The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
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Tweets: @alexismadrigal, @csoghoian, @tomgara, @dannysullivan and @mathewi
| Reuters: |
Intel offers to pay up for Internet TV programming deals — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional cable rates, people familiar with the talks said.| New York Times: |
U.S. and China, Seeking to Ease Tensions, Pledge New Model of Cooperation — PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China said that they were building “a new model” of more cooperative relations after 40 years of diplomatic ups and downs as they wound down a second …
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| Stephen Lawson / Computerworld: |
DOJ clears Softbank's acquisition of Sprint Nextel — The agency has dropped a request for more time to review the proposed deal — The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it has no objection to Softbank acquiring Sprint Nextel, a decision that clears the way for the Federal Communications Commission to rule on the deal.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked Windows Phone screenshots reveal notification center, UI changes, and more — Microsoft has previously admitted it “ran out of time” on a Windows Phone notification center, but it looks like the company is testing early future versions of Windows Phone with this feature in place.
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Windows Phone Central, LiveSide.net, TechnoBuffalo, WindowsObserver.com, iClarified, Gizmodo, T3 News, Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin, WMPoweruser and Pocketnow. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@simongates6
| Clint Boulton / Wall Street Journal: |
Printing Out Barbies and Ford Cylinders — Companies such as General Electric Co., Ford Motor Co. and Mattel Inc. are pushing 3-D printing further into the mainstream than most people realize. — Also known as additive manufacturing, because objects manufactured in this manner are built … Sponsor Posts
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