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January 18, 2015, 11:05 PM

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Spiegel Online:

New Snowden documents show scope of United States' cyber war plans: infiltrate and control or destroy enemy systems and networks — NSA Preps America for Future Battle — The NSA's mass surveillance is just the beginning. Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency …

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New York Times:

N.S.A. Tapped Into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — The trail that led American officials to blame North Korea for the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November winds back to 2010, when the National Security Agency scrambled …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @nickkristof, @justinjm1, @justinjm1, @tomgara, @ali_gharib and @justinjm1

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:

KGI: Apple likely to launch simple stylus to enhance upcoming 12.9-inch iPad user experience — Previous Comments — Stylus, eh? — Well... I guess people will probably quote Jobs' opinion about the merits of a stylus (he was against it). — But a few thoughts:

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Uber Wants to Create 50,000 Jobs, Take 400,000 Cars Off the Road in Europe This Year — Uber chief Travis Kalanick said he wants to expand operations in Europe and, in the process, create 50,000 jobs and take 400,000 personal vehicles off the road. — Kalanick said the ride-sharing service …

More: Uber Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNET, Reuters and USA Today

Tweets: @felixsalmon, @amcafee, @bill_gross, @amcafee and @bill_gross

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Indie developer of podcast app Overcast details sales stats, reports $15.6K average monthly revenue — Overcast's 2014 sales numbers — Nobody ever wants to talk about money. — But current and prospective indie app developers could really use more information on the subject.

More: Daring Fireball, MacStories, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog and Jared Sinclair

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Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:

Turkey threatens to block Twitter unless Twitter blocks the account of a newspaper that circulated leaked documents — Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish officials threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless …

More: PC World, The Huffington Post, Gigaom, Engadget, Techdirt, The Register, Gizmodo and SlashGear

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Raffi Khatchadourian / New Yorker:

How Rana el Kaliouby and her company Affectiva developed software to sense emotions from video — We Know How You Feel — Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can't wait. Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history …

Tweets: @jasonsilva, @vaughanbell, @interfluidity and @laurenthaug

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

Genius is beta testing a feature allowing users to annotate any web page — Genius tests ‘annotate everything everywhere’ feature — Genius, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that made headlines earlier this week when it poached pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones from The New Yorker …

More: Vox and Gigaom. Tweets: @robeirne, @steph3n, @balajis, @jayrosen_nyu, @jhagel and @petersterne

Brian Crecente / Polygon:

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was the top selling game of 2014 as industry sales grew just 1% — Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare top selling game of 2014, Destiny number three — It appears the only thing people like to do more in video games than run around shooting each other …

More: Variety. Tweets: @mikemcwhertor

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Microsoft begins wide rollout of Lumia Denim update that brings big improvements to camera app — Lumia Camera plays a starring role in Windows Phone Denim update — Microsoft has been sharing details on its Demim update, the next step up for Windows Phone, since September.

More: Lumia Conversations, The Verge, Engadget, Recombu, Inquirer, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, WinBeta and VentureBeat

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Hutchison, owner of mobile operator Three, in talks to buy UK's O2 from Telefonica for $13.6B — Hutchison May Bid $13.6 Billion for U.K.'s O2, Sunday Times Says — Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (13), the conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, is in early talks to bid …

More: RTTNews, TelecomLead, Seeking Alpha, The Register, Yorkshire Post, This is Money, Telegraph, Reuters and Engadget. Tweets: @st_eppel

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Elon Musk planning low-orbit Internet satellite system to compete with OneWeb, based out of SpaceX's new Seattle office — Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet — Because he doesn't have enough going on, Elon Musk—he of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, SolarCity, and the Hyperloop—is launching another project.

More: Gizmodo, Neowin, Ars Technica, Re/code, CNET, PC Magazine, VatorNews, The Next Web, Business Insider, Union Gazette, BBC, Engadget, GeekWire, The Verge, VentureBeat and Light Reading

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