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November 10, 2014, 4:15 PM

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The White House:
President Obama endorses net neutrality, asks FCC to reclassify the Internet as a utility  —  Net Neutrality: President Obama's Plan for a Free and Open Internet  —  More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Reactions to Obama's Net Neutrality statement from government, broadband providers, tech and advocacy groups  —  Obama's plan to save the internet draws bold reactions  —  Obama's got plenty of supporters, but the opposition's equally vocal  —  Today, President Obama took his strongest stance yet on the subject of net neutrality.
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Peter Martinazzi / Facebook:
Facebook Messenger passes 500M monthly users  —  Messenger Reaches 500 Million  —  By Peter Martinazzi, Director of Product Management  —  Messaging is an important part of how people stay connected and since Messenger launched in 2011 we've been passionate about giving people a faster and more expressive way to communicate.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Chinese hackers suspected of breaching US Postal Service, compromised data of 800K+ employees  —  China suspected of breaching U.S. Postal Service computer networks  —  Chinese government hackers are suspected of breaching the computer networks of the United States Postal Service, compromising the data of more than 800,000 employees.
FireEye, Inc.:
iOS vulnerability allows apps installed via enterprise/ad-hoc provisioning to replace real apps under the same name, letting an attacker steal data  —  Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us  —  In July 2014, FireEye mobile security researchers have discovered that an iOS app installed …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
New devices help iOS steal back enterprise share from Android; breakdown is 85% iPhone 6, 15% iPhone 6 Plus  —  Apple has managed to reverse a recent trend of declining quarterly enterprise share for device activations, thanks to its new smartphones.  The breakdown for businesses buying …
Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi:
Raspberry Pi Model A+ now on sale for $20 with smaller design, lower power consumption, microSD card slot  —  Raspberry Pi Model A+ on sale now at $20  —  When we announced the Model B+ back in July, we said that we'd also be producing a lower-cost variant, analogous to the original Model A. Since then …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Mozilla launches Firefox Developer Edition with built-in tools for debugging apps and mobile browsers  —  Mozilla today launched Firefox Developer Edition, which it is calling “the first browser created specifically for developers.”  The company wants to solve a very big problem developers often complain …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released From Prison  —  After being on the run for two years Peter Sunde, aka brokep, was arrested during a family visit in southern Sweden late May.  —  Despite being accused of non-violent crimes, Peter was transferred to a high-security unit.  His time in prison was tough.
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
AT&T Abandons Plans for In-Flight Wireless Service  —  AT&T is abandoning an in-flight wireless initiative that would have positioned it to compete with services such as GoGo.  —  The nation's second-largest wireless carrier had announced plans this spring to bring high-speed 4G LTE wireless service …

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