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August 10, 2013, 8:45 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Circle Sept. 10 on Your Calendar for Apple's Big iPhone Event  —  Apple is expected to unveil its next iPhone at a special event on Sept. 10, sources told AllThingsD.  —  D: All Things Digital  —  The launch comes at an important time for Apple, which continues to make a lot of money …
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.
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The Pirate Bay survives to turn 10  —  This Saturday fans of The Pirate Bay file-sharing site are set to celebrate its 10th anniversary at a party in Stockholm sponsored by an energy drinks maker.  —  The event - and the service's very survival - is an irritant to rights holders who have used …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Betaworks Updates Instapaper's Web Reader, Browser Extensions And Mobile Updates To Come  —  Since Betaworks acquired read later service Instapaper from its creator Marco Arment, the startup studio has been pretty quiet.  But the first major update is now right around the corner.
More: Instapaper.  Tweets: @marcoarment.  Thanks:@bthdonohue
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 …
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.
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.
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.

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