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| Patrick Gray / Wired: |
Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance — Everyone assumes that technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google don't care that their customers are being spied on. I don't believe that's true. — On the very day the media dropped detailed documents …
Tweets: @dangillmor and @jilliancyork
| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
The NSA has its own team of elite hackers — Our Post colleagues have had a busy day. First, they released documents revealing the U.S. intelligence budget from National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden. Then they recounted exactly how the hunt for Osama bin Laden went down.
| 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 …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
More Galaxy Gear details leak: 10 hour battery life, two storage options — We've already heard most of the details on Samsung's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, but there's still room (and time) for some more information. The latest leaks from AmongTech confirm what our sources have told us but with the addition of a few more tidibts.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Nokia unveils its connected car platform: Here Auto — After years of being the auto industry's mapmaker, Nokia on Friday announced its intention to become a much bigger technological force in the vehicle. Nokia took the wraps off of Here Auto, an embedded infotainment and connected car system … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes latest Surface price cuts permanent — Summary: Microsoft is cutting prices on Surface Pro, Surface RT and touch covers and making those cuts permanent, rather than promotional. — Microsoft has made previously temporary price-cut promotions for its Surface devices permanent.
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| 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 … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
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Thanks:@mattlynley| Dan Farber / CNET: |
A vote for Bill Gates as interim Microsoft CEO — “There is no clear candidate with the visionary skills to turn company around other than Bill Gates,” says Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. — The evaluations of Steve Ballmer's 33 years at Microsoft are winding down …
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| Harry Brignull / The Verge: |
Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you — These carefully crafted elements are built to misdirect and confuse — Harry Brignull is a London, UK-based independent user experience designer with a PhD in cognitive science. He is also the founder of Dark Patterns … | Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Gold, Graphite iPhone 5S shells shown on video, structure compared to iPhone 5 — In what seems to be a never-ending string of “gold” iPhone 5S part leaks, new high-quality videos analyze what appear to be legitimate rear shells for the upcoming iPhone 5S...
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AppleTell, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, Gearburn, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks and TechnoBuffalo
| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Twitter Conversations New Blue Line Causing Many Twitter Users to Feel Blue … Twitter made some updates on Wednesday to its apps and its website, as it does from time to time. The biggest change was intended to make it easier to keep up with conversations on the social network.
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Bijan Sabet, Wired.co.uk, CNET, The Atlantic Wire, CNN, Fortune, AllTwitter and Slate
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @_theblueline, @parislemon, @zpower, @jbrodkin, @zpower, @parislemon, @gaberivera, @mat, @levie and @mattbuchanan
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins training support staff on iOS 7 & iTunes Radio, preparing for customer surprise — Apple has started training its AppleCare technical support staff on the changes and feature-set of iOS 7, according to multiple AppleCare employees. These people say that training began today …
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Guardian, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, PadGadget, ValueWalk, MacNN, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, iClarified and MacRumors. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@jordankahn
| 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 … | BBC: |
Amazon to alter pricing policy for traders — Online retailer Amazon is to alter its pricing policy for third-party traders amid investigations in the UK and Germany. — It will drop a clause banning traders signed up to its Marketplace platform from offering products elsewhere for cheaper.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Unpatched Mac bug gives attackers “super user” status by going back in time — Researchers have made it easier to exploit a five-month-old security flaw that allows penetration testers and less-ethical hackers to gain nearly unfettered “root” access to Macs over which they already have limited control.
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, SlashGear, Naked Security, Macworld, Threatpost, TUAW, MacNN, AppleInsider and MacRumors
| Alexander C. Kaufman / International Business Times: |
Exclusive: Aereo To Launch On Android In September, Says CEO — Aereo uses tiny antennas to pick up over-the-air signals and beam them to subscribers' iPads and computers. Courtesy of Aereo — Aereo, the upstart television streaming service, plans to launch its product on Android devices in September …
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Digital Trends, The Next Web, GadgeTell, Engadget, Softpedia News, GigaOM and The Verge. See also Mediagazer
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out 50GB mailboxes for Exchange Online, Office 365 — Summary: Microsoft doubles its cloud email storage capacity for users and streaks ahead of Google Apps. — Liam Tung — After tripling file storage capacity on SkyDrive Pro this week, Microsoft has announced it's doubling …
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| Guardian: |
Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition database — Company says adding profile photos to database will give users better control over personal information — Facebook is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members' profile photos … Sponsor Posts
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