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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

NSA Tries To Justify Its Surveillance Programs With Ridiculous Assertions — As President Obama was laying out his “plan” in response to the public's concerns over NSA spying, both the DOJ and the NSA released some documents defending the various programs. I would imagine it will surprise none …

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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Don't worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic — The National Security Agency is believed to have accessed user data from many tech companies. — mjb — On the same day that President Barack Obama spoke to the press about possible surveillance reforms …

More: The Verge, Engadget and Techdirt

Tweets: @nscpress, @walldo and @rubinreport

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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Guardian:

NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls

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Tweets: @stuartmillar159, @trevortimm and @jamesrbuk

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

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

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

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

More: Wonkblog and Politico. Tweets: @bcappelbaum

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

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

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

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship — The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. — Courts in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and more are expected to follow.

More: Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, The Pirate Bay and BBC

Riva Gold / Digits:

Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China's Censorhip — Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales said he would rather have no Wikipedia in China than comply with any form of censorship. — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Mr. Wales said the company will always refuse …

More: SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Michael Phillips / New Yorker:

How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company — In mid-July, Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director for Human Rights Watch's Moscow office, wrote on her Facebook wall that she had received an e-mail from edsnowden@lavabit.com. It requested that she attend a press conference …

More: CNET, Foreign Policy, DSLreports, Network World and Ars Technica

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 …

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Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Why wearable computers will need advances in notification technology to thrive — As we quickly move into an era where even our jewelry, vehicles and household appliances are connected to the web, one of the chief elements of the mobile computing experience as we know it now will undergo a stark change: the push notification.

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 private company said it wants …

More: The Verge, Politico, The Atlantic Wire, Post Politics, Hillicon Valley and Mashable. Tweets: @jimprosser

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple wins U.S. ban on older Samsung devices in mixed ruling — 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.

More: FOSS Patents, Bloomberg, AllThingsD, The Verge, NYT Bits, Business Insider, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, The Mac Observer, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, Reuters, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @reckless

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Judge Considers Limits on Apple's Future E-Book Deals — A federal judge proposed on Friday that Apple be required to negotiate future contracts with major publishers separately and at defined intervals as part of its punishment for illegally conspiring to raise the price of e-books.

More: AppleInsider

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Judge denies Apple's request to suspend e-book antitrust ruling

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

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Skolkovo, Russia's Massive Project To Emulate Silicon Valley, Gets A $4B Commitment — Skolkovo, the much debated public effort by the Russian government to kickstart a startup culture inside the country, said it secured another 135.6 billion ruble ($4 billion) commitment from the government through the next seven years.

More: VentureBeat and East-West Digital News

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, The Mac Observer, Inside Mobile Apps, AndroidOS.in, Ars Technica, The Register, Penny Arcade Report, ExtremeTech, Android and Me, Forbes, Pocket-lint and VG247

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

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

More: destructoid and Geek.com

BTC Geek:

Bitcoin Ticker Arrives on Bloomberg Terminal (But only for Employees for Now) — Bitcoin ticker finally arrives on the famed Bloomberg terminal, which is central to all data on Wall Street and beyond. This has only been released internally so far to the employees, perhaps for testing.

More: TechCrunch and SlashGear

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