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N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption — The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications …
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See also Mediagazer| Guardian: |
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet — • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records — • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
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PandoDaily, ZDNet, GigaOM, Techdirt, Babbage, Mashable, The Tech Report, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Verge, SecurityWeek and Salon
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See also Mediagazer| Bruce Schneier / Guardian: |
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance — The NSA has huge capabilities - and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe — Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures …
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| Bruce Schneier / Wired: |
What Exactly Are the NSA's ‘Groundbreaking Cryptanalytic Capabilities’? — The latest Snowden document is the US intelligence “black budget.” There's a lot of information in the few pages the Washington Post decided to publish, including an introduction by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Tests iPhone Screens as Large as Six Inches — As Apple Inc. prepares to unveil both a new high-end iPhone and a cheaper version for the first time next week, it is already working on something bigger. — The electronics giant has begun evaluating a plan to offer iPhones …
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge: |
Google's Trojan horse: how Chrome Apps will finally take on Windows — The web alone is not enough — Today, on Chrome's fifth birthday, Google is announcing the rollout of what it's calling Chrome Apps. Don't feel bad if you're confused by the name. Chrome has been serving …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: |
No, seriously: Oyster comes pretty close to being a Netflix for ebooks — A lot of startups want to be the Netflix (or Spotify, Pandora, whatever) for ebooks. That is, they want to provide unlimited access to ebooks for a flat monthly fee. — But this is really hard to pull off …
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See also Mediagazer| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Investigating Worker-Abuse Charges at “iPhone C” Supplier — Apple hasn't even launched the less-expensive iPhone it's rumored to have in the pipeline, but already a company involved in its manufacture stands accused of labor violations. — In a report published Thursday …
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| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Power Cover: Microsoft's keyboard cover for the Surface with a built-in battery — It was only yesterday that Neowin was able to pull back the covers on the Surface Pro 2 and highlight some of the features of Microsoft's upcoming tablet. While the specs are looking like a modest upgrade to the Surface Pro … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Follow The Bitcoins: How We Got Busted Buying Drugs On Silk Road's Black Market — The crypto-currency Bitcoin has become the preferred payment method for much of the online underground, hailed by none other than the administrator of the booming Silk Road black market as the key to making his illicit business possible.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Salesforce unveils Files, a new way to map files across services like Dropbox, Box, and SharePoint — Salesforce has overhauled its file sharing system to allows users to share files from any business unit on any device. Called Salesforce Files, this updated tool will work with services like Google Drive …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Japan's largest carrier DoCoMo & Apple reportedly agree to iPhone partnership, sales start this fall — Japan's largest mobile carrier, DoCoMo, will finally begin selling the iPhone this fall, according to Nikkei. Apple and DoCoMo reportedly recently came to an agreement, and reports regarding the discussions emerged late last month.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
PayPal's new digital wallet app is powerful but baffling — Will anybody ever get mobile payments right? — Hill Ferguson ordered a smoothie. Using a newly redesigned app for iOS and Android, PayPal's lanky director of product selected a peach concoction and paid for it with a couple taps on his smartphone.
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| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Facebook-owned Parse adds analytics, more third-party tools to developer platform — Summary: Parse is also tacking on a pair of new cloud modules for facilitating the integration of a Parse-made app with third-party services. — One of Facebook's most buzzed-about acquisitions as of late …
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TechCrunch, Parse Blog, Facebook Developer Blog, VentureBeat, AllFacebook and WebProNews
| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
Sorry, the Future of Computing Is Not on Your Wrist — I wanted to defend Samsung's new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear. When I saw it announced yesterday, my initial instinct was to start trumpeting: Yes! … Maybe I reacted that way because there is no category of technological devices … | Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes: |
Quants-R-Us? Algorithmic Trading Trickles Down To Individual Investors. — Six flights up in a dim, grungy office building in Manhattan's Union Square neighborhood, Christopher Ivey is working on what he thinks is the next step in the evolution of trading.Thanks:@thealexknapp
| Matt Buchanan / New Yorker: |
Why Microsoft Had to Buy a Phone Company — Microsoft has been in the computing business for nearly four decades. For a time, it utterly dominated that business as a company that essentially sold software. But over the past several years, personal computing has evolved in a way that Microsoft had not entirely anticipated.
Tweets: @fxshaw
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Aetna Once Offered To Buy NY Startup ZocDoc For More Than $300 Million And The Founders Walked Away — Insurance company Aetna once offered to buy ZocDoc for more than $300 million but ZocDoc's founders walked away, multiple sources tell Business Insider. — ZocDoc was founded in 2007 … Thanks:@ajs
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Ping for iPhone: does merging email and instant messaging make sense? — You've got mail, instantly — The battle for email is very clearly in full swing. Apps and services seem to debut every day that destroy email, or subvert it, or merely help you rearrange it.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, PandoDaily, App Advice, Mashable and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @ihnatko
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Bing News Now Features Trending Topics From Facebook & Twitter — Bing News has gotten a makeover, including the introduction of various trending topics boxes drawn from buzz detected on Facebook and Twitter, as well as Bing's own searches. — Bing posted about the change, saying:
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| TechCrunch: |
Braintree Is On The Block, Had Acquisition Talks With Square And PayPal — Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree is currently shopping itself around to potential acquirers, TechCrunch has learned. The company has been on the block for some time, having previously tried to work out a deal with Google which fell through.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Google: |
Moto X lands on Sprint tomorrow for $199, new customers slash off an extra $100, Moto Maker in coming months — Sprint will begin carrying the Moto X smartphone beginning tomorrow (Friday, September 6th), the company announced today. The phone will come in either black or white, and it will cost $199 from Sprint.
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Android and Me, Yahoo! News, LAPTOP Magazine and Gotta Be Mobile
| Matthew Moskovciak / CNET: |
Simple.TV partners with SiliconDust: new hardware, 2.0 software update on the way — The new Simple.TV box will feature dual-tuning capability and a more traditional set-top box look. — It's been a while since we've heard anything from Simple.TV and its quirky over-the-air DVR … | Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: |
With privacy battle brewing, Facebook won't update policy right away — Facebook moved back making proposed changes to its policies that critics say would allow the company to use the names and images of its nearly 1.2 billion users to endorse products in ads without their consent.
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