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June 7, 2014, 11:10 PM

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Interactive notifications in iOS 8 are a new interface frontier — Why Notifications Are About to Rule the Smartphone Interface — When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already …

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @stevesi, @dkr, @smc90, @smc90, @niemanlab and @tonyromm

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Who are the investors making 2000X paper gains from Uber's first angel round? — Meet the Uber Rich — Uber's new round of financing values it at $17 billion. So these lucky ones who were in at the start have made 2,000x their initial outlay. The valuation of Uber is poised to hit …

More: Valleywag and Fortune. Tweets: @thestalwart and @chrisrcampbell

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: We're Doubling Revenue Every Six Months

More: Bloomberg, Forbes, PC Magazine, Re/code, The Next Web, Uber Blog, GeekWire, San Francisco Chronicle, Gigaom and Businessweek

Tweets: @playswithfood, @jessicalessin, @nbloom and @davidsacks

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

With plenty of competition and little driver loyalty, Uber's valuation is a head scratcher

More: Vox, Guardian and Slate

Tweets: @jamesrbuk, @danielmwolf, @rolfewinkler, @levie, @semil, @ktbenner, @ys, @martinsfp, @innonate, @davegirouard, @stevesilberman and @sama

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Patent troll VirnetX close to winning 0.98% royalty on Apple's iPhone and iPad sales in the US — Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue — In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung.

More: PR Newswire and SeekingAlpha.com. Tweets: @xor, @bowbrick and @smenor

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA — In January, the math community had its big event of the year — the Joint Mathematics Meeting — where 3,000 mathematicians and math students gathered to talk about new advances in the field and jostle for jobs.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @profkeithdevlin, @kenwsmith54 and @kashhill

New York Times:

How Google, Facebook, and other tech giants are now more actively impeding government spying — Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become …

More: Business Insider and TIME. Tweets: @jpbarlow, @paulszoldra, @ggreenwald, @csoghoian, @kenroth, @granick and @the_intercept

Bruce Upbin / Forbes:

Flaw in millions of TVs lets researchers hijack digital broadcasts, inject malicious code — Red Button Flaw Exposes Major Vulnerability In Millions of Smart TVs — It's 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday in New York City. People in their apartments in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan …

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @kashhill. Thanks:@thealexknapp

Lee Fang / VICE:

Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality — Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images — Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission continue …

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, TechCrunch, Electronista, Consumerist, DSLreports, Gizmodo and BGR

Tweets: @lhfang and @dangillmor

Thanks:@themadhacker

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

After seizure of CryptoLocker botnet, new ransomware Cryptowall spreads through ad networks — We “will be paying no ransom,” vows town hit by Cryptowall ransom malware — The town manager of a hamlet in south eastern New Hampshire has defied demands that he pay a ransom …

More: Cisco Blog, New York Times, CBS Boston, Portsmouth Herald, Techie News, The Hacker News and Computerworld

Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:

Dropbox needs to uncover a winning mobile strategy if it's to score big with consumers — The Dropbox Conundrum — It was supposed to be next high-profile tech IPO, but now it's facing many of the same questions that Facebook faced before going public. — Stephen Lam / Reuters

Thanks:@cdirusso

Andy / TorrentFreak:

MPAA Strikes Anti-Piracy Deal With Torrent Client Creator — While BitTorrent Inc.'s uTorrent and Mainline products grab most of the headlines, neither are the world's most popular torrent client. That honor falls to the Chinese-operated Xunlei or ‘Thunder’ software.

More: Neowin

Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business …:

Facebook buying 59-acre, 10-building site adjacent to its Menlo Park campus for future growth — Facebook buying 10-building TE Connectivity campus in Menlo Park — Facebook Inc. has struck a deal to buy the 10-building Menlo Park campus of TE Connectivity, located next door …

More: Pulse 2.0 and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @jguynn and @svbizjournal. Thanks:@cityofmenlopark

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple's Home Automation Success Rests With Hardware Evangelism — At its WWDC conference this week, Apple unveiled a scaffolding of sorts that allows developers to control smart home devices like light switches, thermostats, garage doors and more. This is called HomeKit …

More: Fast Company, Mashable, SlashGear and Forbes

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