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Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games — NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life — Read the NSA document Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
The Biggest Social Network No One Is Talking About: Gamers — The NSA is spying on gamers for the same reason it wants to spy on your Facebook account. It's a clear map of your relationships. — The easy reaction to today's revelation in the Guardian that the National Security Agency spied … | Bloomberg: |
AllThingsD Editors Are Said to Complete NBCUniversal Deal — AllThingsD editors Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who are leaving News Corp. at the end of the year, completed a deal with NBCUniversal for a news and conference business that will bring their current staff to a newly named website …
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Global Government Surveillance Reform — The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world's governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand …
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Google barge on ‘hiatus’ amid scrutiny from two agencies — Whether it's a Google Glass store or a showroom for all things Google X, one thing is clear: No one will be visiting Google Barge anytime soon. — The once-mysterious barge, currently sitting idle alongside a pier at Treasure Island …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Stealth payment startup Clinkle lays off 25% of staff — Layoffs at stealth payment startup Clinkle — Clinkle still wants to kill Square. But first it needs to get its own house in order. — FORTUNE — Clinkle, a stealthy mobile payment startup that recently raised …
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| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
How Foursquare used its massive check-in database to make passive notifications work — The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead — Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. — Crowley is the founder of Foursquare, the seminal social networking service … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's “Threshold” could include three SKUs (modern, traditional, and enterprise) built on common Windows core — More on Microsoft's SKU-morphic Windows vision — Summary: Microsoft's plans for Windows SKUs is undergoing a transformation.| Joe Eskenazi / The Snitch: |
Google Bus: Max Bell Alper Is the Boy Who Cried Gentrification — Max Bell Alper has befouled his own well. He's soiled his own bed. You can use Google to hunt down other apropos analogies. Busloads of employees roll out of San Francisco every day to make it so.
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Qualcomm Introduces Its First 64-Bit Chip, Though This One Takes Aim at the Low End — Qualcomm is detailing on Monday a new entry-level mobile processor that packs a number of high-end features. — The Snapdragon 410 is designed for phones that sell for $150 or less but includes …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs — Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages. According to court documents filed today … | Lorraine Luk / Digits: |
China Mobile to Accept iPhone Orders This Week — China Mobile Ltd. plans to take preorders for Apple Inc.'s iPhones from Thursday in Shanghai, according to an advertisement on its website, as the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers moves closer to launching high-speed fourth-generation mobile services in the country.| AppleInsider: |
Ousted Apple exec Scott Forstall reportedly advising startups, focusing on philanthropy — Not much has been heard of former iOS head Scott Forstall since he was fired from Apple in 2012, but a report published on Monday claims to shed some light on the ousted executive's activities over the past year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Scripps Buys Newsy For $35M To Expand From TV And Newspapers To Digital Video — Another exit for a new media startup into the arms of the old media industry: E.W. Scripps, the storied owner of 19 local television stations and daily newspapers in 13 markets across the U.S. …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur, The Photo-Sharing Site Reddit Loves — This fall, Yahoo began serious talks to buy photo-sharing site Imgur, a source with first-hand knowledge of those discussions tells us. — Since she joined Yahoo in July 2012, CEO Marissa Mayer has acquired dozens of startups.
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Netflix open sources its data traffic cop, Suro — Netflix is open sourcing a tool called Suro that the company uses to direct data from its source to its destination in real time. More than just serving a key role in the Netflix data pipeline, though, it's also a great example of the impressive …
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter Rises Most Since IPO Amid Advertising Product Optimism — Twitter Inc. rose the most since its initial public offering after enhancements to its advertising products sparked optimism that the social-networking company will grow into its valuation. — Twitter gained 8.4 percent … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round — Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it brought on in September. In addition to the new funding, Flipboard is also announcing … | Pradeep / WMPoweruser: |
Microsoft Research Releases Socl App For Windows Phone 8 Devices — If you are not aware of Microsoft's own social network called Socl, here is the description from Microsoft. Socl offers a set of simple, fun “create experiences” that make it even easier to express and share ideas with people worldwide …
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook hires NYU deep learning expert to run its new AI lab — Facebook launched a new artificial intelligence lab in September, and now we know the person who will run it — New York University deep learning expert Yann LeCun. He has been an instrumental figure in the space …
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Yann LeCun, Business Insider, New Yorker, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Mashable, Wired and VentureBeat. Tweets: @ylecun
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Fast-growing IT automation startup Opscode raises $32M, changes name to Chef — Seattle entrepreneur Barry Crist likes to say that the best time to raise money is when you don't really need it. — And that was certainly the case for Opscode, the fast-growing IT automation startup that today … Sponsor Posts
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