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August 29, 2013, 6:00 PM
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Washington Post:
U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary  —  U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats …
Washington Post:
Inside the 2013 U.S. intelligence ‘black budget’  —  The pages in this document appear in the summary of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's multivolume FY 2013 Congressional Budget Justification — the U.S. intelligence community's top-secret “black budget.”
Tweets: @bcmerchant and @declanm
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Invest in Foursquare  —  Microsoft is in talks with Foursquare about a potential investment in the social-media company, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.  The talks are at an advanced stage, said two of the people …
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Three Months After Being Banned From The App Store, Bang With Friends Returns As “Down”  —  They're baaack.  —  Bang With Friends, the Facebook friend hookup app that seemed to be endlessly engulfed in one controversy or another earlier this year, is returning to the iOS App Store …
More: Betabeat and The Verge.  Tweets: @qthrul
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development  —  Skype said that limitations with current 3D technologies had stopped it launching the feature  —  Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls.  —  The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's tenth anniversary.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Outbox lands on Android as its service to digitalize snail mail opens to all in San Francisco  —  Outbox, the service that digitizes your postal mail and sends it to you wherever you are, has opened its doors to the public — well at least to those in San Francisco.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Foursquare Launches New “Passive” Tip Feature for Phones  —  Earlier this year, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley raised $41 million, and promised to use that money “to do the things we want to do.”  —  Today he's giving people a glimpse of what that looks like: A new feature that will allow …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Sharpens Its Flickr iOS App With Enhanced Filters, More Camera Tools; Makes Pro Tools Free  —  Yahoo has just released a significant new update for its Flickr photo app for iOS, a further sign of how it wants to be not just where you go to store and view pictures, but where you create them as well.
Hugo Barra / Google+:
A new Android chapter  —  After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I've ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter.  In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China …
AllThingsD:
Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
U.S. Losing Ground In Mobile App Market  —  If mobile apps are the post-PC era's software industry, the U.S. may be losing its edge.  According to new findings mobile analytics firm Flurry released this morning, the U.S. isn't leading in the creation of mobile applications …
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Bring Me Your Accents.  Immigration Fuels Innovation  —  I have lived (England, France, Italy, Spain, Japan & the US) and worked (Ireland, Germany, India) around the world.  —  I adore accents.  I listen not only for the country but the region.  —  I became engrossed with the origins of both accents and phrases.
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Here's how one hacker is waging war on the Syrian government  —  As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government.  He works a white-collar job in the United States by day, while at night he's …
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes  —  To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group.  —  The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing chores to computers operated …
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Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

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