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Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers  —  Over the past year, there has been speculation of when or if Apple would build out their own content delivery network for the purpose of delivering content to consumers.  To date, all of the CDN deployments done by Apple …
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook celebrates 10-year anniversary with nostalgic ‘Look Back’ video feature  —  As Mark Zuckerberg reflects on Facebook's first ten years as a company today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same.  Starting this morning, hundreds of millions of Facebook users will receive …
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Facebook proceeds with Paper launch after FiftyThree, makers of Paper drawing app requested a name change  —  Makers of Paper App Ask Facebook to Change Its New App Name  —  If you go to Google and type in the word “paper,” the top result doesn't have anything to do with traditional pulpy vellum.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Paper Now Available For iOS In The US, And It Could Be A Facebook Replacement
Richard Salgado / The Official Google Blog:
With inclusion of FISA requests, Google's transparency report now contains all types of government requests for users' information  —  Shedding some light on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests  —  We believe the public deserves to know the full extent to which governments request user information from Google.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft disclose new data about number of NSA requests received
Erica Klarreich / Wired:
Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable  —  As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing someone that something …
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Bonnie Cha / Re/code:
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro, Tab Pro Series Coming to U.S. February 13  —  Just in time for Valentine's Day, Samsung announced today that its Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro tablets will be available starting Feb. 13 in the U.S.  —  First introduced at CES, there are four models in the series.
Scott Knaster / Google Developers Blog:
Ready to cast: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK  —  Back in July we announced the developer preview of the Google Cast Software Development Kit (SDK), the underlying Chromecast technology that enables multi-screen experiences across mobile devices (phones, tablet, laptops) and large-screen displays.
Associated Press:
Google barge must move from island construction site in San Francisco Bay, state orders  —  A state agency says Google must move its mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay because the permits are not in order.
Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo:
AT&T Ends $450 Offer to Switch From T-Mobile  —  AT&T is no longer offering a full $450 in credit when you switch over from T-Mobile, a point T-Mobile CEO John Legere made on Twitter today. … TechnoBuffalo reached out to AT&T for an explanation and a spokesperson said that the offer …
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:
Microsoft's Kinect Is Now Guarding the Korean Border  —  North Korea and South Korea are separated by the most heavily armed border on Earth.  But rest easy, there's a new guard on the lookout: Kinect.  —  Self-taught South Korean programmer Jae Kwan Ko developed a Kinect-based software system …
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users  —  When Adobe announced their new DRM a couple weeks ago some said that we would soon see compatibility issues with older devices and apps as Adobe forced everyone to upgrade.  —  At that time I didn't think Adobe …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
YouTube reveals $1bn music payouts, but some labels still unhappy  —  Google's Video service may be ‘all-in on music’, but rightsholder unrest at its parent company persists  —  'We've paid out to the music industry over the last several years over a billion dollars,' said YouTube's Tom Pickett.
More: SlashGear.  Tweets: @ellenstrickland
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever  —  BitBurgers is one of the few businesses that accepts Dogecoin.  —  Cory Doctorow  —  For the last two months, developers and users of Dogecoin, the shiba-themed altcoin (alternative Bitcoin) …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Telefónica lands exclusive deal to bring chat app Line to Firefox OS in Europe and Latin America  —  Mobile operator Telefónica has announced a partnership with Line, the messaging service from Japan with over 300 million registered users.  The deal is Line's first with an overseas carrier …

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Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels

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