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September 6, 2013, 7:25 AM

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New York Times:
N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption  —  The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications …
Guardian:
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet  —  • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records  —  • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
Bruce Schneier / Guardian:
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance  —  The NSA has huge capabilities - and if it wants in to your computer, it's in.  With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe  —  Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures …
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Tests iPhone Screens as Large as Six Inches  —  As Apple Inc. prepares to unveil both a new high-end iPhone and a cheaper version for the first time next week, it is already working on something bigger.  —  The electronics giant has begun evaluating a plan to offer iPhones …
Brad Sams / Neowin:
Power Cover: Microsoft's keyboard cover for the Surface with a built-in battery  —  It was only yesterday that Neowin was able to pull back the covers on the Surface Pro 2 and highlight some of the features of Microsoft's upcoming tablet.  While the specs are looking like a modest upgrade to the Surface Pro …
Brad Molen / Engadget:
LG Nexus 5 with LTE makes probable appearance in FCC (update: 5-inch display, Snapdragon 800)  —  The oft-rumored Nexus 5 is turning into quite a riddle.  If you've been following the saga, there has been no shortage of drama in recent memory.  Most recently we saw a Google employee snapping pictures …
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge:
Google's Trojan horse: how Chrome Apps will finally take on Windows  —  The web alone is not enough  —  Today, on Chrome's fifth birthday, Google is announcing the rollout of what it's calling Chrome Apps.  Don't feel bad if you're confused by the name.  Chrome has been serving …
Ann Friedman / The Baffler:
All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go  —  In a jobs economy that has become something of a grim joke, nothing seems quite so bleak as the digital job seeker's all-but-obligatory LinkedIn account.  In the decade since the site launched publicly with a mission “to connect the world's professionals …
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
No, seriously: Oyster comes pretty close to being a Netflix for ebooks  —  A lot of startups want to be the Netflix (or Spotify, Pandora, whatever) for ebooks.  That is, they want to provide unlimited access to ebooks for a flat monthly fee.  —  But this is really hard to pull off …
Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:
Rotten Tomatoes Founder Positions New Site To Be “Google News For Movies”  —  Rotten Tomatoes founder Senh Duong has redesigned his new site, Movies With Butter, to be the “Google News for movies.”  Movies With Butter originally launched with more of a Digg/Reddit strategy …
Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report:
China Telecom (Accidentally?)  Offers Peek at New iPhones … Now there's one good theory about the reason Apple Inc. is hosting a launch event in Beijing next week.  —  Thursday afternoon, a verified China Telecom Corp. account on Sina Corp.'s Weibo microblog put out a post advertising advance orders …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Follow The Bitcoins: How We Got Busted Buying Drugs On Silk Road's Black Market  —  The crypto-currency Bitcoin has become the preferred payment method for much of the online underground, hailed by none other than the administrator of the booming Silk Road black market as the key to making his illicit business possible.
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Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:
Why Microsoft Had to Buy a Phone Company  —  Microsoft has been in the computing business for nearly four decades.  For a time, it utterly dominated that business as a company that essentially sold software.  But over the past several years, personal computing has evolved in a way that Microsoft had not entirely anticipated.
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Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes:
Quants-R-Us?  Algorithmic Trading Trickles Down To Individual Investors.  —  Six flights up in a dim, grungy office building in Manhattan's Union Square neighborhood, Christopher Ivey is working on what he thinks is the next step in the evolution of trading.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Japan's largest carrier DoCoMo & Apple reportedly agree to iPhone partnership, sales start this fall  —  Japan's largest mobile carrier, DoCoMo, will finally begin selling the iPhone this fall, according to Nikkei.  Apple and DoCoMo reportedly recently came to an agreement, and reports regarding the discussions emerged late last month.
TechCrunch:
Braintree Is On The Block, Had Acquisition Talks With Square And PayPal  —  Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree is currently shopping itself around to potential acquirers, TechCrunch has learned.  The company has been on the block for some time, having previously tried to work out a deal with Google which fell through.

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