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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 …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
NSA Tries To Justify Its Surveillance Programs With Ridiculous Assertions — As President Obama was laying out his “plan” in response to the public's concerns over NSA spying, both the DOJ and the NSA released some documents defending the various programs. I would imagine it will surprise none …
| 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 …
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Obama Offers Plan Meant to Ease Concerns on Surveillance — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday sought to get his administration ahead of the roiling debate over National Security Agency surveillance, releasing new information about spying activities and calling for changes aimed … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
All Developer Center services back online, members receiving one month extension for downtime — Apple has been slowly restoring various services and overhauling its Developer Center since the company shut down all services to investigate an attempted breach into the system late last month.
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| 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.| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
Twitter joins Washington's influence economy, forms PAC — Twitter on Friday became an official member of Washington's influence economy, with the formation of a political action committee and the appointment of its first registered lobbyist. — The seven-year old private company said it wants …
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The Verge, Softpedia News, Geekosystem, Politico, The Atlantic Wire, Post Politics, Hillicon Valley and Mashable. Tweets: @jimprosser
| 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.
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CoinDesk, SlashGear and TechCrunch
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
T-Mobile Pulls iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 From Its “No Money Down” Promotion — If you want to get the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S as part of T-Mobile's “no money down” offer, you'd better make some plans to head to a store pronto. — T-Mobile confirmed to AllThingsD that, starting Saturday …
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| Julie Bosman / New York Times: |
Judge Considers Limits on Apple's Future E-Book Deals — A federal judge proposed on Friday that Apple be required to negotiate future contracts with major publishers separately and at defined intervals as part of its punishment for illegally conspiring to raise the price of e-books.
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