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August 10, 2013, 4:45 PM

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship  —  The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet.  —  Courts in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and more are expected to follow.
BBC:
The Pirate Bay survives to turn 10  —  This Saturday fans of The Pirate Bay file-sharing site are set to celebrate its 10th anniversary at a party in Stockholm sponsored by an energy drinks maker.  —  The event - and the service's very survival - is an irritant to rights holders who have used …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Don't worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic  —  The National Security Agency is believed to have accessed user data from many tech companies.  —  mjb  —  On the same day that President Barack Obama spoke to the press about possible surveillance reforms …
New York Times:
Michael Phillips / New Yorker:
How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company  —  In mid-July, Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director for Human Rights Watch's Moscow office, wrote on her Facebook wall that she had received an e-mail from edsnowden@lavabit.com.  It requested that she attend a press conference …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Betaworks Updates Instapaper's Web Reader, Browser Extensions And Mobile Updates To Come  —  Since Betaworks acquired read later service Instapaper from its creator Marco Arment, the startup studio has been pretty quiet.  But the first major update is now right around the corner.
More: InstapaperTweets: @marcoarmentThanks:@bthdonohue
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Why wearable computers will need advances in notification technology to thrive  —  As we quickly move into an era where even our jewelry, vehicles and household appliances are connected to the web, one of the chief elements of the mobile computing experience as we know it now will undergo a stark change: the push notification.
Riva Gold / Digits:
Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China's Censorhip  —  Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales said he would rather have no Wikipedia in China than comply with any form of censorship.  —  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Mr. Wales said the company will always refuse …
BTC Geek:
Bitcoin Ticker Arrives on Bloomberg Terminal (But only for Employees for Now)  —  Bitcoin ticker finally arrives on the famed Bloomberg terminal, which is central to all data on Wall Street and beyond.  This has only been released internally so far to the employees, perhaps for testing.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Skolkovo, Russia's Massive Project To Emulate Silicon Valley, Gets A $4B Commitment  —  Skolkovo, the much debated public effort by the Russian government to kickstart a startup culture inside the country, said it secured another 135.6 billion ruble ($4 billion) commitment from the government through the next seven years.

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