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September 8, 2013, 1:05 PM

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Spiegel Online:
NSA can somehow “tap” user data on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry phones  —  NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data  —  SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry …
Jeffrey Goldberg / Agile Blog:
More NSA fallout: AgileBits lays out elaborate case for why 1Password isn't sabotaged  —  1Password and The Crypto Wars  —  Of all of the revelations about the NSA that began in June and continue to this day, the one that has shocked me the most is the fact that the United States National Security Agency …
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme is now writing its own headlines  —  Right now there's a headline on Techmeme written by our news editors.  Our more familiar readers know why this is noteworthy: from the time we launched in 2005 until yesterday, our content consisted entirely of quotes.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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Richard Nieva / Fortune:
Ashes to ashes, peer to peer: An oral history of Napster  —  FORTUNE — Like the birth of most great music movements — Elvis on Ed Sullivan, Patti Smith at CBGB — Napster was rebellious of convention, threatening to established norms, and, well, really loud.
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Paul Adams / The Intercom Blog:
Why cards are the future of the web  —  Cards are fast becoming the best design pattern for mobile devices.  —  We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content.
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Twitter's tablet-optimized Android app leaks out  —  Even Google admits that Android tablet software has been lagging, but one key app might finally be catching up.  At IFA 2013, a tablet-optimized copy of Twitter was spotted running on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
Robert McMillan / Wired:
Web server Nginx runs on 15% of websites, nearly doubling in two years  —  This Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet  —  Automattic was replacing the web server software that underpins its popular WordPress blogging platform, and things weren't going well.
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
For the new Galaxy Note, USB 3 is the magic number  —  A new port means potentially faster transfers and charging  —  With all the news coming from it's big event yesterday, Samsung glazed over the importance of one new feature of its Galaxy Note 3 — it's the first phone we know of that that uses USB 3.0.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Won't Introduce New Apple TV Box Next Week, Will Upgrade Software  —  There are very, very good odds you're going to hear about new iPhones at Apple's event next Tuesday.  —  But if you're looking for a new Apple TV, you're going to be disappointed.  —  Despite speculation …

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