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China Mobile & Apple Bring iPhone to China Mobile's 4G & 3G Networks on January 17, 2014 — iPhone 5s & iPhone 5c Available for Pre-Registration Beginning December 25, 2013 — Apple® and China Mobile today announced they have entered into a multi-year agreement to bring iPhone® to the world's largest mobile network.
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| New York Times: |
iPhone arrives on world's largest carrier as Apple tries to climb from fifth place in China — Apple and China Mobile Sign iPhone Deal — Just about any way you slice it, 763 million customers is a huge potential pie. — On Sunday, Apple and China Mobile announced a deal to bring … | Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
evasi0n iOS 7 jailbreak includes unofficial Cydia build, piracy-laden Taig app store in China — Jailbreak for iOS 7 is out, but proceed with caution — iOS 7 officially has an untethered jailbreak. The comprehensive new tool, provided by the Evasi0n team, allows users to jailbreak all iOS devices running versions 7.0 to 7.0.4.| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Partnership With Chinese App Store Shines A Light On The Hidden World Of Jailbreak Groups — Jailbreak releases for new iOS products are major events. In the early years, release teams would celebrate major holidays with a new jailbreak or SIM unlock and millions of anxious users would rush for the latest software.
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| New York Times: |
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, Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Associated Press, The Switch, NPR, SlashGear and CNET
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| The RSA Blog: |
RSA categorically denies it entered into secret agreement with NSA to weaken its security — RSA RESPONSE TO MEDIA CLAIMS REGARDING NSA RELATIONSHIP — Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a “secret contract” with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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| 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.
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Business Insider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @kaylatausche, @fromedome, @kevinrose, @gabriel_o, @cdixon, @sacca and @theinformation
| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Data brokers won't even tell the government how it uses, sells your data — A chart of the various ways that data brokers characterize their subjects. — Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation [PDF] — A Senate committee released a report this week that goes to great lengths …
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| Rob Wile / Business Insider: |
Here's How Two Strangers Jokingly Created Dogecoin — The Digital Currency That People Like More Than Bitcoin — This is the most 2013 thing of the year. — An Australian brand and marketing specialist and a programmer in Portland, Ore. who have never actually met have successfully combined …
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Steve Klabnik, Daily Dot, The Verge, Digital Trends, International Business Times, Ubergizmo and Betabeat. Tweets: @notpatrick
| 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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The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @melgregg, @josephcohen, @alexismadrigal, @nd_kane 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
| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
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