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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional — A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional. — U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found …
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See also Mediagazer| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses’ — Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. — The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo …
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| Sara Morrison / The Wire: |
‘60 Minutes’: NSA Good, Snowden Bad — As if that whole retracted Benghazi report and the Amazon commercial/drone reveal didn't undermine 60 Minutes' credibility enough in the last few weeks, here's another gem: a report on how the NSA has simply been misunderstood by all those Snowden leaks and is a good guy, really.
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See also Mediagazer| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
NSA alleges ‘BIOS plot to destroy PCs’ — Un-named PC maker sought help to defeat un-named nation's PC-bricking plan — Senior National Security Agency (NSA) officials have told US news magazine program “60 Minutes” that a foreign nation tried to infect computers with a BIOS-based virus …
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report — Our take on five things the spy agency would like the public to believe about its vast surveillance powers — The National Security Agency is telling its story like never before. Never mind whether that story is, well, true.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 includes notification center and Siri-like personal assistant — Microsoft is preparing to ship its Windows Phone 8.1 update with two significant changes: a notification center and a Siri-like personal assistant. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed …
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| Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Photosynth creator and architect of Bing mobile and mapping leaves Microsoft to join Google — A Microsoft Star Goes to Google — SEATTLE — Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google.
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| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits: |
As Walt Mossberg exits, WSJ's new personal tech team includes Geoffrey Fowler and new hires Joanna Stern, Wilson Rothman, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles — WSJ Announces Personal Tech Reviewing Team — Today we are announcing expanded Wall Street Journal coverage of personal technology … | David Carr / New York Times: |
AOL's Tim Armstrong reluctantly lets go of Patch as shareholder pressures mount — AOL Chief's White Whale Finally Slips His Grasp — Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL, is finally winding down Patch, a network of local news sites that he helped invent and that AOL bought after he took over.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Ho Ho No! Amazon Apologizes After Customers Lose Access to Christmas Content. — If you buy a digital song, book or movie, do you really own that song, book or movie? — Or are you just renting a collection of bits, which are never really going to be yours?
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| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim — Search giant insists lawsuit concerning UK internet users' privacy should be brought in California where it is based — Google has been called “arrogant and immoral” for arguing that a privacy claim brought by internet users …
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
Two More Executives Leaving BlackBerry — EVP of Global Sales, Official in Charge of M&A Strategy to Depart in Weeks — TORONTO—The leadership upheaval at BlackBerry Ltd. continues under interim Chief Executive John Chen, according to people familiar with the matter.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches “Donate” Button For Non-Profits That Also Collects Billing Info For Itself — Facebook unveiled a “Donate Now” button today to make it much easier for non-profits to take contributions. A nice side effect for its business? The button will collect credit card numbers …
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CNET, Facebook, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, TechHive, AllThingsD, The Next Web, SlashGear and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| David Streitfeld / NYT Bits: |
Amazon Workers in Germany Strike Again — This post has been updated to include new reporting. — Amazon warehouse employees in Germany walked off the job again Monday even as they tried to take their case directly to the e-commerce giant's Seattle headquarters.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Despite higher ARPU generated by smartphones, carriers still complain of subsidy burden — Shameless Carriers — By Jean-Louis Gassée in mobile internet 4 Comments Tags: att, iphone, verizon … Until about two weeks ago, it seemed that our major wireless carriers had given …
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| Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook: |
Avago to Buy LSI for $6.6 Billion — Avago Technologies plans to make the biggest acquisition in its history — with the help of a former owner. — Avago, a semiconductor company, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the LSI Corporation for about $6.6 billion in cash …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Crowdtilt Raises Another $23 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For International Expansion, Enterprise Tools — Crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt wasn't looking to raise another round, but when their Series A lead investor Andreessen Horowitz offered to lead their B round, the team decided it would make sense given their plans.Sponsor Posts
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