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August 9, 2013, 10:15 PM

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New York Times:

Obama Offers Plan Meant to Ease Concerns on Surveillance — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday sought to get his administration ahead of the roiling debate over National Security Agency surveillance, releasing new information about spying activities and calling for changes aimed …

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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:

President Obama: Edward Snowden ‘not a patriot’ — President Barack Obama laid out new measures Friday aimed at giving Americans more information about national security surveillance programs, and said his administration will aim to be more transparent on the issue.

More: Wonkblog, NPR, TechCrunch and USA Today

Tweets: @bcappelbaum and @gaberivera

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Obama's Response To NSA Surveillance: Some Minor Reforms & Transparency; Still Lacking Justification

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Don't worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic

More: Techdirt, CNN, WPMT FOX43 and Newser

Tweets: @walldo, @rubinreport and @nscpress

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Obama reveals new spy reforms: better oversight of secret courts, adds independent review committee

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, First Read, TechHive, The Switch, Techdirt and The Register. Tweets: @davidjoachim

Guardian:

NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls — Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications — The National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, CNET, VentureBeat, Guardian, DSLreports, Washington Post, Techdirt and Boing Boing

Tweets: @stuartmillar159, @trevortimm and @jamesrbuk

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Building a panopticon: The evolution of the NSA's XKeyscore

Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

What It Means to Be An NSA “Target”: New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform

More: New York Times, The Technology Chronicles, Lawfare, Softpedia News and Boing Boing

Tweets: @onejarednewman and @wagenet

Reuters:

Deutsche Telekom snubs U.S. email servers after snooping scandal

More: Deutsche Telekom and The Verge

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Asus to manufacture Nexus 10 refresh — The largest of Google's three Nexus devices is soon due for a refresh, and it looks like Asus will be the manufacturer this time around. — Google's Nexus program is something of a bidding war in the planning stages.

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Report: Motorola to produce new Nexus device, will be released in Q4

More: Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, AndroidOS.in, WebProNews, BGR, GigaOM, TechHive and Los Angeles Times

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Samsung faces sales ban on older devices in U.S. — The U.S. International Trade Commission says Samsung infringes on a pair of Apple patents with some of its older phones. — The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled in favor of Apple in a decision to ban some of Samsung's phones in the U.S.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Apple to judges: not banning Samsung products would be a ‘fundamental change’ in patent law

More: Bloomberg, Computerworld, Bloomberg, ZDNet and Electronista. Tweets: @reckless

Sinan Kubba / Joystiq:

Rumor: Amazon developing Android console to release this year — Online retail giant Amazon will enter the Android console market later this year, according to Game Informer sources. In a brief report, the site claims people with “knowledge of the in-development hardware” …

More: Game Informer, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Inside Mobile Apps, The Mac Observer, Kotaku, Mobile Magazine, The Register, AndroidGuys, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint and VG247

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon Could Launch Qualcomm-Powered Games Console And Media Box By End Of Year

More: Geek.com

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Judge denies Apple's request to suspend e-book antitrust ruling — Apple, in its ongoing battle over an e-book price fixing scandal, has been dealt yet another setback. Last month, Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had violated antitrust laws in conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices.

More: Associated Press, PC World, CNET, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, TUAW and Los Angeles Times. See also Mediagazer

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Judge Considers Limits on Apple's Future E-Book Deals

More: AppleInsider

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Armstrong Confirms “Hundreds” Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO — We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call …

More: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Valleywag, Bloomberg, Business Insider, AllThingsD, ZDNet, The Tell, WebProNews, Dice News and Forbes

Tweets: @edmundlee, @zseward and @goborrell

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone update in testing, includes rotation lock and text syncing to PCs — While Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 8 update is slowly rolling out to existing handsets, the company is prepping new changes that will be made available by the end of the year.

More: LiveSide.net, My Nokia Blog, WMPoweruser, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, BetaNews, PC World and WPDang

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Pulls iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 From Its “No Money Down” Promotion — If you want to get the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S as part of T-Mobile's “no money down” offer, you'd better make some plans to head to a store pronto. — T-Mobile confirmed to AllThingsD that, starting Saturday …

More: TmoNews, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena and iClarified

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

ASUS pulls out of Windows RT due to financial losses and ‘industry sentiment’ — This isn't a huge shock, given that ASUS has already publicly expressed woes about poor sales of its Windows RT products, but CEO Jerry Shen's latest comments have a surprising edge of finality to them.

More: Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, The Verge, eWeek, AnandTech, TechCrunch, Computerworld, SlashGear, WebProNews and The Next Web

Agam Shah / Computerworld:

Nvidia drops Tegra revenue forecast as Windows RT woes loom

More: CNET, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Register, The Verge, Ars Technica, ZDNet and TechEye

Reuters:

Exclusive: BlackBerry open to going private, sources say — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is warming up to the possibility of going private, as the smartphone maker battles to revive its fortunes, several sources familiar with the situation said. — Chief Executive Thorsten Heins …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

The next Xbox 360 system update will replace Microsoft Points with local currency — Microsoft today announced the next Xbox 360 update will feature local currency. That's right: Microsoft Points are finally going away. — The move has been a long time coming.

More: Xbox Wire, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Joystiq, IntoMobile, Kotaku, Polygon, TechNet Blogs and destructoid

Christopher Grant / Polygon:

Xbox One allows households to share Live Gold status on one console with Home Gold

More: Xbox Wire, Ars Technica, The Verge, Engadget, VG247 and VR-Zone

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

Twitter joins Washington's influence economy, forms PAC — Twitter on Friday became an official member of Washington's influence economy, with the formation of a political action committee and the appointment of its first registered lobbyist. — The seven-year-old privately held company …

More: Hillicon Valley, Politico, The Atlantic Wire and Post Politics

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Twitter #music app gets new ways to discover artists, scans iPhone library for personalized recommendations — Twitter updated its Twitter #music iPhone app today with several new ways to discover new artists in addition to personalized recommendations based on the content in your iPhone's music library.

More: The Next Web, IntoMobile, The Verge, Engadget, AppleInsider and MacRumors. See also Mediagazer

Tony Romm / Politico:

Apple's Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance — President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.

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