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Kevin Rose / TechCrunch:

Foundation: Secret's David Byttow Talks Privacy, Security, and Company Origins — Today is an exciting day for Secret, one of the most talked about new startups in Silicon Valley which just raised another round of funding. — I sat down with Secret's co-founder David Byttow this week …

More: Medium

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps — VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning “anonymish” app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a high profile resignation and even bomb and violence threats have pushed the volume of the debate to eleven.

More: Chris Saad, Both Sides of the Table, Hunter Walk, Medium and Re/code

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Secret Now Warning Users Not To “Defame” Others — It seems that school children are not the only ones who aren't able to handle the power of anonymous social applications appropriately. Secret, the San Francisco-based (and now, newly funded) confessional app, has begun warning users to not …

More: PC Magazine and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @davidbyttow

Nicholas Weaver / Wired:

How the NSA's QUANTUM internet attack system works — A Close Look at the NSA's Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool — We already knew that the NSA has weaponized the internet, enabling it to “shoot” exploits at anyone it desires. A single web fetch, imitated by an identified target …

Tweets: @ncweaver, @scribandotcom, @normative and @normative

Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

Compare the NSA's Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents

More: Techdirt, eWeek, SiliconBeat, Threatpost, TechSpot and theWHIR.com

TechCrunch:

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit — The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture …

More: Re/code, The Verge, ReadWrite and Business Insider

Tweets: @paulg, @mims, @pchap10k, @zedshaw, @aredridel and @nrrrdcore

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Warner Brothers to “Veronica Mars” Backers: Okay, Okay — Use iTunes or Amazon if You Want — “Veronica Mars” was supposed to be a triumphant mix of Hollywood and crowd-sourcing: Fans of Kristen Bell's old TV show, aided by Kickstarter, helped fund a movie version, in conjunction with Warner Bros.

More: The Verge, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Flavorwire and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

Moisés Chiullan / TechHive:

Why Veronica Mars embraced UltraViolet and angered fans

More: Kickstarter, Gigaom, The Wrap, The Wrap, Engadget, The Kickstarter Blog, IGN, Hollywood Reporter, Boston Herald, Deadline.com, iMore and The Next Web. Thanks:@jsnell. See also Mediagazer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Ukrainian hackers claim they took down NATO websites ahead of secession vote — Ukrainian hackers are claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that brought down a pair of NATO websites today, in an act of protest against Western powers on the eve of a major vote that could see a portion of Ukraine handed over to Russia.

More: Motherboard, Reuters, CNN, Reuters, RT, SecurityWeek and NPR

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

‘I Know I Look Weird But I Like It’: Meet Shingy, AOL's Dumped On Digital Prophet — About five minutes before I met David Shing in the Sheraton hotel bar in Austin, Texas, his image was going viral through my Twitter feed. Again. For the second time in about a month.

Tweets: @delrey, @mattstraz, @jyarow, @ashfein and @markgurman

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Refinements, additions, and un-breaking stuff: iOS 7.1 reviewed — Time to update! iOS 7.1 is here, and it fixes a lot of iOS 7.0's biggest problems. — Aurich Lawson — There were about six months between the ouster of Scott Forstall from Apple in late October of 2012 and the unveiling of iOS 7.0 in June of 2013.

More: iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, MacNN, Cult of Mac, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Phones Review, BGR, Redmond Pie, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, iLounge, iPhone Hacks and Softpedia News. Tweets: @stevesi

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Valve replaces Steam Controller touchscreen with new analog face buttons — When we briefly got our hands on Valve's prototype Steam Controller earlier this year, we found the face buttons placed right up against the lip of the circular touch pads more than a little awkward to use.

More: VentureBeat, Wired, Engadget, Steam Universe, Technabob, Forbes, CNET, HotHardware.com News, IGN, TechSpot, Joystiq, SlashGear, Polygon, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @farroos

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:

Alibaba Confirms It Will Begin I.P.O. Process in U.S. — The Alibaba Group, China's online commerce giant, confirmed early on Sunday that it planned to begin the process of becoming a public company in the United States. — In a post on its corporate blog, the company said it planned …

More: Alizila, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, ZDNet, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, brecorder.com, TechNode, Re/code, BBC and Fox Business

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Xiaomi launches MIUI for tablets, new Nexus 7 gets first dibs (Update: WiFi version only) — While Xiaomi has yet to launch its very own tablet (the Eden Tab doesn't count), you can now get a first taste of its tablet-friendly MIUI Android ROM, which is available as an open beta for the 2013 edition Nexus 7.

More: MIUI, Phones Review, Phandroid, I4U News, IntoMobile, Gizchina.com and Liliputing

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