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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 untethered Jailbreak released from Evasi0n — Just in time for Christmas, the Evasi0n team has released an iOS 7 compatible Jailbreak. I've just jailbroken my wife's iOS iPhone 5s (long story) so I'm pretty sure it is legit. … The process is extremely straightforward and took about 5 minutes to complete on an iPhone 5s.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Almost Human: The Surreal, Cyborg Future of Telemarketing — This is a story about how the future gets weird. — It's about how humans interact with each other, and machines, and systems that can only properly be called cyborg. — Let's start, though, with a man sitting on a couch.
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Tweets: @nd_kane, @josephcohen and @zseward
Thanks:@alexismadrigal| David Auerbach / Slate: |
San Francisco tech workers rarely resemble the ruthless techno-libertarians portrayed in media — The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco — The press portrays a ruthless band of techno-libertarians taking over the city. The reality is much different.
Tweets: @dr_pugh, @slate, @nils_gilman, @monstro and @davewiner
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White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved late Friday to prevent a judge in California from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs authorized during the Bush administration …
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IC ON THE RECORD, Associated Press, NPR and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tweets: @attackerman, @normative, @trevortimm, @trevortimm and @attackerman
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
News Corp's Storyful Buy Proves Old Media Still Loves Tech — Tech history is littered with the wreckage of startups acquired and ruined by old media companies. To a certain extent, old media realizes the error of its ways, but that doesn't stop it from trying again.| Nathaniel Popper / DealBook: |
Inside the race for Bitcoin mining capacity, which increased by about 30,000 percent in 2013 — Into the Bitcoin Mines — On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin. — To get there, you pass through a fortified gate and enter a featureless yellow building.
Tweets: @cdixon, @gabriel_o, @kevinrose, @sacca and @fromedome
| Eric Calouro / newsBTC: |
Overstock.com to Begin Accepting Bitcoin Second Half of 2014 — In late October, there was a brief mention of retailer Overstock.com in a New York Times piece that noted the online retailer was considering accepting bitcoin, but decided they would put a hold on that objective … | Etay Maor / Trusteer: |
Gameover malware variant steals BTC China users' credentials to gain control of accounts — Bitcoin Exchange In China - Gameover? — Cybercriminals' interest in Bitcoin has continued to grow alongside the mainstream media's heavy coverage of the currency and its high rate of adoption by both consumers and businesses.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Crowley on Foursquare's plans: scale ad products, useful alerts for users who don't open app — Why Do People Keep Giving Foursquare Money? — Foursquare just raised a bunch of money, again. This time it's a Series D round of $35M, back in April of this year it was $41M in debt financing.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Music-Discovery Service ExFM Pulls the Plug — After a four-year-run, music startup ExFM is throwing in the towel. — The company, which operates a music-discovery website, as well as iPhone and Android apps, says it will shut down its apps, as well as the guts of its site, on Jan. 15.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Microsoft gifts 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage to Windows Phone users for a year — Microsoft is distributing some holiday cheer to Windows Phone owners today with an email inviting them to activate a bonus 20GB of SkyDrive storage. The bump in cloud storage will be active for a year … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default — Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to Reuters.
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The Raw Story, PC Magazine, Ethan Heilman, Graham Cluley and Guardian
Tweets: @kimdotcom and @ggreenwald
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