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March 12, 2014, 12:45 PM

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The Intercept:
How the NSA Plans to Infect “Millions” of Computers with Malware  —  One presentation outlines how the NSA performs “industrial-scale exploitation” of computer networks across the world.  —  Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 8: Apple considers moving iTunes Radio to its own app to boost usage  —  In an effort to boost usage of its new streaming music service that launched alongside iOS 7 last fall, Apple is considering changes to iTunes Radio.  The Cupertino company is now testing iTunes Radio …
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web  —  Exclusive: web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations  —  The inventor of the world wide web believes an online “Magna Carta” is needed to protect and enshrine the independence …
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Tim Berners-Lee: 25 years on, the Web still needs work (Q&A)  —  Twenty-five years ago, on March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed “a universal linked information system” to help itinerant academics from across the globe run a complicated particle accelerator.  —  Boy, did the World Wide Web ever exceed those initial expectations.
Thomas Cloer / Macworld:
Microsoft will release a new version of Office for Mac this year  —  Microsoft will release a new office suite for the Mac before the end of this year, according to the company's manager for Office products in Germany.  —  The version available today, Office:mac 2011, lags far behind …
James Robinson / PandoDaily:
Google buys the ghost of Green Throttle Games, as TV arms race gathers speed  —  Four months after Santa Clara-based Green Throttle Games slowly shuffled off this mortal coil, PandoDaily has confirmed that its parts and labor have been quietly scooped up by Google as a possible asset …
Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac:
Apple drops its 30 day return policy on iPhones down to 14 days  —  In the recent past, customers who purchased an iPhone directly from the Apple Online Store and in Apple Retail Stores have had 30 days to return the device for any reason.  The only stipulation was that it had to be undamaged …
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
BlackBerry's QNX: Why it's so valuable to Apple, Google, auto industry  —  Summary: For smartphone giants looking to take their experiences to auto dashboards, all roads at least tie into BlackBerry's QNX platform.  Here's why.  —  Apple's CarPlay connects into BlackBerry's QNX platform.
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The hot startup at SXSW this year was plain old television  —  AUSTIN, Texas—There was no breakout mobile app, no hot new startup, no celebrity founder holding court over the conference.  But everywhere one turned at South By Southwest Interactive, people were talking about television.
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