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Marissa Mayer / Yahoo:
Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014  —  Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information  —  We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it.  —  As you know, there have been a number of reports …
Max Raskin / Bloomberg:
DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW  —  Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot?  —  The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that …
Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker:
Inside Google's Driverless Car  —  Has the self-driving car at last arrived?  Human beings make terrible drivers.  They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right.  They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.
Ted Johnson / Variety:
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts  —  The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.
Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Google to pay $17M to states in Apple cookies case  —  State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser  —  Google has reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over its unauthorized placement …
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Salesforce.com's Q3: Beats estimates, raises outlook, promises $5B rev by 2015  —  Summary: However a net loss appears to have thrown investors off a little bit as Salesforce shares were down by approximately three percent in after-hours trading.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com …
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube  —  Google Chairman Eric Schmidt today said his company's search engine has made it far more difficult to find images of child pornography and that Google is developing a technology that will identify children being abused in YouTube videos.
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
SurveyMonkey Releases Business Version of Popular Questionnaire Software  —  Corporations have a few questions for you.  And then a few more.  That trend is likely to increase, thanks to the way they are trying to make sense of your every move.  —  SurveyMonkey, which makes the online technology …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks  —  Forums software maker vBulletin has been breached by hackers who got access to customer password data and other personal information in a compromise that has heightened speculation there may be a critical vulnerability …
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch available December 2nd for $350  —  Where mobile devices are concerned, Qualcomm's normally a behind-the-scenes player, but that's all set to change next month.  The company has announced that its Toq smartwatch is coming to the market on December 2nd.
Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:
Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends.  So where does that leave Snapchat?  —  We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be.  But they are often wrong.

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces and conspiring to publish seditious articles, and faces a possible life sentence

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory previously was editor from 2012 to 2023

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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sprint and Best Buy offering students 12 months of free service with new smartphone purchases
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Amazon releases Fire OS 3.1 with Goodreads integration, second screen sharing to TVs, wireless printing, and more

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