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New Snowden documents show FISA court authorized NSA to spy on all but four foreign countries — Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show — Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information …
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Bulk or targeted? Foreign or domestic? This handy diagram plots the answer for the NSA programs revealed this past year — The NSA Revelations All in One Chart — This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
FBI, CIA Use Backdoor Searches To Warrentlessly Spy On Americans' Communications — The other shoe just dropped when it comes to how the federal government illegally spies on Americans. Last summer, the details of the NSA's “backdoor searches” were revealed.
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Recent hires suggest Apple is forming its own speech recognition team for a neural-net-boosted Siri — Siri Will Soon Understand You a Whole Lot Better — It all started at a small academic get-together in Whistler, British Columbia. — The topic was speech recognition …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Twitter names ex-Goldman banker Anthony Noto CFO, Mike Gupta now Head of Strategic Investments — Twitter CFO Steps Down and Is Replaced By Banker Who Took Company Public — Twitter said in a filing today that it's CFO Mike Gupta was shifting his job to become an SVP of strategic investments.
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| Matt Thomlinson / TechNet Blogs: |
Microsoft strengthens encryption for Outlook.com and OneDrive, opens Redmond Transparency Center to allow governments to review source code — Advancing our encryption and transparency efforts — Vice President, Trustworthy Computing Security, Microsoft
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| Mike Kaplinskiy / Vine blog: |
Vine introduces ‘loop count’ popularity indicator, updates home and activity feeds — Introducing Loop Counts — Starting today, you'll see loop counts on Vines in our iOS and Android mobile apps and on the web. Loop counts indicate how many times people have looped a video …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
“Buy Now” Buttons Start Appearing in Tweets. Is Twitter Shopping Finally Here? — Two things stand out about the sneakers pictured above in a screenshot from Twitter. First, their list price is a cool $170 million (though we imagine that's a glitch). — Second, there's a “Buy now” button included in the tweet.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Tumblr “shadow CEO” Derek Gottfrid is out according to internal email from David Karp — One The Most Important People At Tumblr — Derek Gottfrid — Is Out Of The Company — A key Tumblr employee is out of the company. — Derek Gottfrid, who joined from the New York Times in 2010 …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android Wear review: Fast notifications, accurate voice commands, but still feels like a beta — Android Wear software review: Smartwatch software that doesn't suck — Google wearables: take two. — Believe it or not, Google has been a leader in the wearables space for some time with Google Glass.
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| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Facebook Added ‘Research’ To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study — Unless you've spent the last couple of days in a Faraday pouch under a rock, you've heard about Facebook's controversial ‘emotion manipulation’ study. Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer ran an experiment …
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Tweets: @kashhill and @jayrosen_nyu
Thanks:@aatilley| Conner Forrest / TechRepublic: |
How the ‘PayPal Mafia’ redefined success in Silicon Valley — The “PayPal Mafia” is no mafia at all. It's a diaspora. “Basically, we were kicked out of our homeland and they burned down our temple. So, we were scattered to the four corners of the globe, and we had to make new homes.”
Tweets: @jeffweiner, @davidsacks, @stilenius, @mdudas and @hkanji
| Richard Padilla / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches 2014 ‘Back to School’ Promotion with Apple Store Gift Cards Up to $100 — As indicated yesterday, Apple today launched its annual Back to School promotion offering qualified educational purchasers an Apple Store gift card of $100 with the purchase of a new Mac or a $50 gift card with the purchase of an iPad or iPhone.
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Samsung reveals the mini version of its Galaxy S5 smartphone, will go on sale in Russia first — Samsung has taken the wraps off the mini version of its flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone. The 4.5-inch Galaxy S5 mini has pretty much the same features as its parent device, featuring IP67 certification … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
UPDATED: PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to “technical problem” — The Switzerland-based startup, established by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, couldn't access money that crowdfunding backers have given it, because PayPal had frozen its account.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal — The .io country code top-level domain is pretty popular right now, particularly among tech startups that want to take advantage of the snappy input/output reference and the relative availability of names … | Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Databricks announces a Spark cloud and $33M in venture capital — Databricks, the company trying to commercialize the Apache Spark data-processing framework, announced on Monday at the second-annual Spark Summit that it has raised $33 million in series B venture capital … | Jethro Nededog / The Wrap: |
‘Community’ to Return for Season 6 on Yahoo Screen — It's Hulu's loss and the fans' gain. Former NBC comedy “Community” will continue on at Yahoo Screen. — In a surprise last-minute deal, the show's producers Sony Pictures Television sold a 13-episode sixth season to the web video service.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
US book publishers now make more money from online sales than physical stores — Brick-and-mortar book stores have clearly been on the decline for a while — just look at Barnes & Noble's rocky finances. However, there's now some tangible evidence that the pendulum has swung in favor of internet-based sales.| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Apple's nine new CarPlay partners include Audi, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Mazda, and more — Apple's new CarPlay partners include Chrysler, Mazda and more — Apple and Google are preparing to duke it out in the automotive arena, and the former just nabbed a few more partners to add to its arsenal of allied car makers.
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
Silk Road auction: 45 bidders, 63 total bids; SecondMarket was outbid on all blocks — Bitcoin Price Surges as Silk Road Auction Spurs Investor Interest — The US Marshals Service (USMS) has begun to inform participating investors as to the official results of its 27th June auction … Sponsor Posts
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