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February 9, 2014, 5:00 AM

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New York Times:

Officials say Snowden used web crawling software to download classified NSA documents — Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A. — WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials investigating how Edward J. Snowden gained access to roughly a huge trove of the country's most highly classified documents …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple currently plans to release iOS 7.1 in March — While recent reports are pegging a launch sooner than later, reliable sources say that Apple is currently planning to ship iOS 7.1, the first significant update to iOS 7, in March. The iOS 7.1 update is said to not have any “secret features …

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

How Milo founder Jack Abraham and a small team designed eBay's new feed in two weeks — You Can Explain eBay's $50 Billion Turnaround With Just This One Crazy Story — Back in the middle of the last decade, eBay, the massive auction site, was in trouble.

Tweets: @pierre, @samshank, @jackabraham, @semil, @hunterwalk and @anildash

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo to Partner With Yelp on Local Search — Partnership is Part of Effort to Differentiate Yahoo from Google and Microsoft Bing — Yahoo is hoping Yelp can help improve its search engine's local results. — A partnership between the Internet portal and the online review site …

More: Re/code, The Verge, Search Engine Land, CNET, VentureBeat and The Next Web

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Owen Good / Kotaku:

Creator of #1 free app Flappy Bird says he's pulling the game in 22 hours — Flappy Bird's Creator Says He's Taking the Game Down — The creator of Flappy Bird, the difficult, barebones mobile game whose mere existence roiled video games discussion over the past two weeks …

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Court sides with T-Mobile, bans AT&T's Aio Wireless from using magenta color — A federal court has granted T-Mobile a preliminary injunction against AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless on grounds that the low-cost carrier's color scheme infringes on T-Mobile's iconic magenta.

More: GeekWire, Softpedia News, T-Mobile, Engadget and Re/code. Tweets: @JohnLegere

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Twitter's Other Growth Problem: Keeping the Users It Already Has — Yes, Twitter has a growth problem. But more than that, the company has another headache: Getting people to stick around after signing up. — According to people close to the company, Twitter has seen more than one billion registrations …

Tweets: @spencerchen

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Data suggests ISPs are throttling video streaming. Will the FCC do anything about it? — There's something rotten in the state of online video streaming, and the data is starting to emerge — If you've been having trouble with your Netflix streams lately, or maybe like David Rafael …

More: UPROXX, GamePolitics blogs and Boing Boing. Tweets: @jank0. Thanks:@tomkrazit. See also Mediagazer

Jeffrey Matulef / Eurogamer.net:

Dungeon Keeper Android's rating system filters out “1-4 star” reviews — UPDATE: EA defends practice as making it “easier” to send feedback. — UPDATE 9.07pm: EA Mobile has responded to allegations that the publisher was up to something sneaky by filtering 1-4 star in-app reviews …

More: The Pocket Gamer Podcast, Gamasutra, Polygon, Gamasutra, Metro.co.uk, MCV: Home Stream, Gamedynamo.com, Examiner, PC Magazine, Geek.com, Joystiq and BBC

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Mt. Gox suspends bitcoin withdrawals (temporarily?), market falls amid concerns of impropriety — The other shoe may have dropped for embattled Mt. Gox, the world's third-largest bitcoin exchange by volume. Last night Mt. Gox published a message on its website alerting users that it will be temporarily suspending bitcoin withdrawals.

More: MtGox, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, MarketWatch, CNET, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Re/code, The Register, USA Today, Wired, Business Insider, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, InfoWorld, Computerworld and On Bitcoin

Business Insider:

Meet Shingy, AOL's Self-Proclaimed ‘Digital Prophet’ Who Has The Internet Buzzing — The Internet went bananas earlier this evening, as people began spreading a picture from an interview that was on MSNBC featuring a man with quirky-looking hair. … The man is David Shing, and here's everything you need to know about him:

More: Valleywag, UPROXX, msnbc, TheVine and The Wire

Tweets: @rakeshlobster, @mitchellholder, @drew and @oliviaoshry

The Coinbase Blog:

More security and granular control with the new API keys — API keys can now be customized in a number of ways. — Users can now have multiple API keys, the keys have a secret to sign requests and you can set granular permissions and whitelist IPs for each and every key separately. — Multiple API keys

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Coinbase's unusually powerful API keys made users who fell to phishing attacks more vulnerable

More: The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, Salon, Gigaom and Gizmodo. Tweets: @lorenzofb

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