Techmeme: Crypto expert: encryption libraries, NIST standards now warrant extra scrutiny (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts …)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News

September 6, 2013, 5:35 PM

Top News

Amir Efrati / jessica lessin:

Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow? — Which technology giant will be the first to offer a free smartphone? Amazon.com Inc. is making a play. — In a previously unreported move, the online retailer and Kindle maker is considering introducing …

More: BGR, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Quartz, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Verge, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Next Web, Digits, pocketnow.com, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com and Kindle Review

Tweets: @counternotions, @tcarmody, @dcseifert, @jessicalessin, @amir and @carnage4life

Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Techmeme is now writing its own headlines — Right now there's a headline on Techmeme written by our news editors. Our more familiar readers know why this is noteworthy: from the time we launched in 2005 until yesterday, our content consisted entirely of quotes.

More: Business Insider and Poynter. Tweets: @danyork, @mathewi, @mrinaldesai, @dannysullivan, @karaswisher, @gaberivera, @zpower, @hblodget, @joannastern, @mg, @joannastern, @mat, @ryanlawler, @jeffsand, @r, @nicolasvoisin, @jktrotter, @jdowdell, @marypcbuk, @davemcclure, @billmickey, @ryanlawler, @obrien, @michaelpilla, @bmorrissey, @joelandren, @parislemon, @alexia, @starfire2258, @gaberivera, @pkafka, @zseward, @gaberivera, @zpower, @nerdtalker, @ashleymayer, @jguynn, @parislemon, @qthrul, @nerdtalker, @gaberivera, @tcarmody, @eldon, @davewiner, @michaelsteeber, @devinreams, @rsingel, @nerdtalker, @jerkob, @tcarmody, @eldon, @eric_andersen, @nerdtalker, @sarahfrier, @apollozac, @percival, @theromit, @graywolf, @anthonyha, @nitashatiku, @runspired, @panzer, @spencerchen, @llsethj, @mmasnick, @pkafka, @caseynewton, @anthonyha, @apollozac, @jguynn, @eric_andersen, @bsheridan, @m4tt, @besttechie, @hornokplease, @andrewhyde and @profjeffjarvis. See also Mediagazer

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's OS X Mavericks release planned for end of October — Apple plans to release its next Mac operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, at the end of October, according to sources with knowledge of the launch plans. — This comes despite claims and speculation that Apple will release OS X Mavericks …

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile — Apple Inc. is preparing to ship iPhones to China Mobile Ltd., people familiar with the matter say, an indication that a long-awaited deal between the two companies is in place. — A deal would cap years of negotiations between the two companies.

More: MacRumors, GigaOM, Engadget, iMore, Digits, The Next Web, BGR, 9to5Mac, Tech Trader Daily, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Mashable and iClarified

Tweets: @markgurman, @wsj, @iansherr and @iansherr

Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report:

China Telecom Weibo Post Suggests Apple's New iPhone 5S, 5C Will Go on Sale in China Soon

More: Reuters, Examiner, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Wired, The Atlantic Wire, blog.chron.com, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @benedictevans and @marcoarment

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Judge lays down Apple's punishment in ebooks case. It's largely in line with what the feds wanted — After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday.

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 …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Pinterest And Path To Battle Over Letter “P” Logo Trademark — Are the Path and Pinterest logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging startup is currently working to prevent Pinterest from acquiring the trademark to the letter “P” as a stylized design (like the one shown here, and below).

More: Digital Trends, Betabeat and AllThingsD

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @eldon

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:

Crypto expert: encryption libraries, NIST standards now warrant extra scrutiny — On the NSA — Let me tell you the story of my tiny brush with the biggest crypto story of the year. — A few weeks ago I received a call from a reporter at ProPublica, asking me background questions about encryption.

Eric Rodenbeck / Wired:

Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes — Where's the densest place in the Bay Area, the place where the largest numbers of people can use the smallest numbers of buses? By this logic it's not the hipsters that have chosen to gentrify San Francisco …

Tweets: @conorsen, @nytimesbits and @timoreilly

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Thanks to a new chip, the Galaxy Note 3′s huge screen won't kill its battery — The charge on the Galaxy Note 3 is going to last a lot longer than you think - and not just because of the slightly larger battery Samsung is shipping with the handset. Buried within the radio guts …

More: TechHive, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily and Geek.com. Thanks:@kfitchard

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Note 3 arriving alongside Galaxy Gear October 1st and 2nd for $299.99

Paul Graham / Y Combinator:

YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too — We just opened applications for the winter 2014 Y Combinator batch, and we're happy to announce that there's something new this time: an application form for nonprofits. We're going to start including nonprofits in every YC batch. We'd been thinking about this for a while.

More: The Next Web

Juliette Garside / Guardian:

Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges — EU commission legislation would introduce flat rate call charges, but big network providers say changes could cost them €7bn — Europe will ban mobile phone networks from charging customers more to use their phones abroad …

More: Android Community, SlashGear, T3 News, Electronista, Engadget and Inquirer. Tweets: @juzzell

John Cook / GeekWire:

eBay acquires Decide.com, shopping research site will shut down Sept. 30 — Decide's CEO Mike Fridgen taps power of data to change how we shop. — eBay is buying Seattle startup Decide.com, gobbling up the online shopping research service that predicted whether prices …

More: Decide Blog, The Next Web, Digits and Engadget

Sponsor Posts

Soxton:

Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!

F5:

Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.

Zoho:

Website traffic analytics: How to read your data and take action — Traffic is up. Sessions look healthy. The dashboard is full of green arrows and yet — conversions are flat, revenue targets are slipping, and the leads coming through aren't closing.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast:

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Big Technology Podcast:

Will Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic's Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Hard Fork:

Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT

The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.

Subscribe to Hard Fork.

The Upstarts Podcast:

Vanta's Christina Cacioppo: The Underdog Turning 'Nonsense' Compliance Into A $4.2B Security Standout

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.

Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.

Great Chat:

Who are the billboards for?

A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.

Subscribe to Great Chat.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.

Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:35 PM ET, September 6, 2013.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.