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Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure — WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around the world, government spies …
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| Alexander Bolton / The Hill: |
Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home — A recent briefing by senior intelligence officials on surveillance programs failed to attract even half of the Senate, showing the lack of enthusiasm in Congress for learning about classified security programs. [WATCH VIDEO]| Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press: |
Officials: NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations — WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries …
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| Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata — On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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emptywheel, The Huffington Post, The Next Web, Mashable, Of Interest and The Verge
| New York Times: |
After Profits, Defense Contractor Faces the Pitfalls of Cybersecurity — WASHINGTON — When the United Arab Emirates wanted to create its own version of the National Security Agency, it turned to Booz Allen Hamilton to replicate the world's largest and most powerful spy agency in the sands of Abu Dhabi.
Tweets: @ggreenwald and @nicoleperlroth
| Carrie Johnson / NPR: |
Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order — NPR has learned that the Obama administration, under pressure to lift a cloak of secrecy, is considering whether to declassify a court order that gives the National Security Agency the power to gather phone call record information on millions of Americans.
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Tweets: @nickstatt, @benl and @vindugoel
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
If Office Hits The iPad, Even Fewer People Would Buy A Surface — Remember this ad? The ad where Microsoft attempts to position the iPad as a chopstick-playing toy and the Surface as a PowerPoint-editing machine? — Yeah, that's why we can't have nice things. — Microsoft just released Office the the iPhone.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Square co-founder Tristan O'Tierney exits the company after 4.5 years, has no immediate plans — Square co-founder Tristan O'Tierney has left the US mobile payments company after more than four years there. — O'Tierney announced his departure on Friday - via Twitter … | Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
So, Now That Edward Snowden May Blab US Secrets To China, Do You Still Think He's A Hero? — Last weekend, after 29 year-old government contractor Edward Snowden revealed himself to be the source of several major U.S. intelligence leaks, most people regarded him as a hero.
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Xinhua News Agency, Naomi Wolf and RAPPLER
| Mike Cassidy / The Official Google Blog: |
Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access — The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem.
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Digits, Digital Trends, Reuters and Forbes
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Adds Support For Google Cloud Messaging, Git And Custom APIs To Azure Mobile Services — Microsoft today announced a number of updates to its Azure Mobile Services that include support for Git source control, custom APIs and Android push notifications through Google Cloud Messaging to its mobile backend service.
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ScottGu's Blog, The Register, MSDN Blogs and InfoQ
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft Is Paying Developers Up To $100,000 To Write Windows Phone 8 Apps — Microsoft openly pays developers up front for writing Windows Phone 8 apps. — The company right now has an offer to pay $100 for any app that gets published in the Windows store by the end of the month.
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Windows Phone Central, T3 News, PhoneArena, Ars Technica, BGR, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Neowin, The Droid Guy and WMPoweruser
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
¿Cómo Ha Crecido Path? By Buying Ads In Spanish — The mystery of Path's mysterious growth deepens. — The app, which has been around for nearly three years, miraculously jumped up the charts from between 500th and 600th place to the teens on the free list about two months ago.
Tweets: @satishd, @andykleinman and @rurbina
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google To Shut Down Mobile Ad Aggregator AdWhirl Sept 30, Points Developers To AdMob Mediation — Google, the worldwide leader in mobile advertising, today made another move that could help consolidate its position a little bit further. The company today announced to developers … | Michael R. Crittenden / Wall Street Journal: |
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