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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
If not the NSA, who should store the phone data? — A measure that President Obama is considering as a way to curb the National Security Agency's mass storage of phone data is already facing resistance — not only from the intelligence community but also from privacy advocates, the phone industry and some lawmakers.| Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal: |
Spy Agency Drowns in Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims … LAUSANNE, Switzerland— William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to snoop on Internet traffic around the world, delivered an unusual message here in September …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Obama's NSA Phone Spying Reforms Might Make Things Worse — President Barack Obama turned heads just days before Christmas when he announced that he is “seriously” considering following the recommendations set forth by an advisory panel, which he appointed, that suggested a major overhaul …
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Gizmodo, The Switch, Associated Press and Boing Boing
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut — Amazon, NPD Group trumpet sales of the bare-bones laptops in 2013 to consumers and businesses — Chromebooks had a very good year, according to retailer Amazon.com and industry analysts. — And that's bad news for Microsoft.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @tomwarren and @levie
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large — Christopher Mims, writing for Quartz, “2013 Was a Lost Year for Tech”: … What a sad pile of piss-on-everything cynicism. — Was 2013 a seminal or particularly extraordinary year for technology? No, I'd say not.
| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
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| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Paul Graham Says Women “Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years” — The Information just proved that it's worth the $400 price of admission. On display in an interview with Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham is the clearest picture of Silicon Valley's unacknowledged sexism to ever find its way in print.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
As US fiber buildouts spur competion, benefiting consumers, threats to net neutrality loom — How US Internet service might get better—and worse—in 2014 — 2013, like just about every year before it, was the year nearly all of us complained about our Internet service. — “It's too slow!” we said.| CoinText.com: |
US Department of Treasury's FinCEN backtracks, says Bitcoin miners are not considered money transmitters and don't need to register with the agency — FinCEN Issues Bitcoin-Friendly Ruling for Miners — The US Department of Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) …
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SlashGear and newsBTC. Tweets: @polemitis, @keybumpkid and @andrewhires. Thanks:@_trendspotter
| RT: |
French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion — France's Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture.
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Businessweek, SlashGear, Forbes and The Verge
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 update adds Always-On HDR, Android 4.3, more — NVIDIA has updated the Tegra Note 7 to Android 4.3, pushing out a new update this morning which also boosts the DirectStylus pen technology for left-handed tableteers, and adds the much-anticipated AOHDR photography system.
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NVIDIA, IntoMobile, Electronista, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, Gigaom and AndroidGuys
| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Ratchet provisions, which promise investors guaranteed returns after IPO, increasingly common — Startups Ratchet Up the Risk With Share Promises — Some Early Investors Get Guaranteed Return on Money — As the battle for financing heats up, some startups are making big promises …
Tweets: @drmarkcampbell and @dmac1
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google received 235 million DMCA takedown requests in 2013, discarded 9% — Google Discarded 21,000,000 Takedown Requests in 2013 — Since last year copyright holders have started to increase the number of DMCA takedown requests they send to Google. — In 2011 Google was asked …
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Softpedia News, SlashGear and BGR
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