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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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Tweets: @mattblaze, @free_snowden, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @csoghoian
| 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 …
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Re/code, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, Search Engine Land and The Next Web
| 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, @hunterwalk, @anildash, @semil and @jackabraham
| Owen Good / Kotaku: |
Creator of #1 free app Flappy Bird says he's pulling the game tomorrow — 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 …
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| 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.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google posts large privacy violation notice on French homepage (UPDATE) — A French court on Friday refused Google's last-minute plea to suspend an order imposed by a privacy watchdog, meaning the search giant has to post a notice on its homepage for a period of 48 hours informing users …
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The Verge, Reuters, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, Washington Post and Engadget. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts
| 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.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
From fashion to fitness: the experts behind Apple's wearable future — Apple has been developing a sensor-laden, fitness- and medical-focused wearable computer as indicated by several notable recent hires and information we have received from sources. — New Apple hires on both the senior executive … | 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: |
| 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:
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Valleywag, UPROXX, msnbc and The Wire
Tweets: @mitchellholder, @oliviaoshry, @drew and @rakeshlobster
| Kyle Wilhoit / Trend Micro Simply Security: |
Behind the NBC report that Olympic visitors can expect to be hacked: all attacks required user interaction, could happen anywhere — Details Behind the NBC Honeypots: Part 2 — Recently, I was asked by NBC to participate in an experiment to deploy honeypots in Moscow, Russia, to see how fast they would be compromised.
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Mozilla launches Accounts, an improved Sync feature, and a customizable UI to Firefox Aurora — Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser … Sponsor Posts
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