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September 14, 2013, 7:45 AM

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Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:

Microsoft execs were aware of an Android Lumia prototype before Nokia deal — Behind Microsoft Deal, the Specter of a Nokia Android Phone — SEATTLE — Before Microsoft reached a deal to buy Nokia's phone business, there was a possibility that Nokia could have switched its smartphones …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nuclear options: Microsoft was testing Surface Phone while Nokia experimented with Android — Things might have turned out very differently — Microsoft and Nokia need each other more than you'd expect. While Nokia was testing Android in a variety of different ways, Microsoft was busy experimenting with a Surface Phone.

More: SlashGear and PhoneArena. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky and @zpower

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack — It wasn't ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found …

More: Softpedia News, Techdirt, Daily Dot, Gizmodo and Ars Technica

Tweets: @funzoneq, @csoghoian and @matthewkeyslive

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's iPhone 5s, the A7 Chip, and That 64-Bit Question — When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5s on Tuesday, the company touted as one of its tentpole features the 64-bit desktop-class processing power of its new custom-made A7 chip. “The A7 is up to twice as fast as the previous-generation system …

More: CannyVision, The Mac Observer, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple and ParisLemon. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Unlocked 16GB Yellow iPhone 5c is first to sell out, available to ship by 9/25 (Update: 1-2 weeks in Hong Kong)

More: Examiner, ZDNet, eWeek, iMore, MacNN and IntoMobile

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

China Apple Stores to start taking iPhone 5s & 5c reservations Sept. 17, pickup Sept. 20

More: MacTrast, App Advice, ifoAppleStore and SlashGear. Thanks:@sarahg1113

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Online iPhone 5s orders open at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Sept. 20, in-store sales begin locally at 8 a.m.

More: 9to5Mac, TechHive, pocketnow.com, iMore, MacRumors, CNET, Tech Europe, Electronista and AnandTech

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Tech's Rising Stars Push Into the Online-to-Offline Era — Although startups like Pinterest, Uber and Airbnb may not seem to have much in common except their lofty valuations, they share a similar purpose that could help describe the current era of consumer technology: Bringing the online world to the offline world.

Thanks:@maringuy

Marcia Hoffman / Wired:

Apple's Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can't ‘Take the Fifth’ — There's a lot of talk around biometric authentication since Apple introduced its newest iPhone, which will let users unlock their device with a fingerprint. Given Apple's industry-leading position, it's probably not a far stretch …

More: I4U News, Techdirt and Yahoo! News

Tweets: @kevinmitnick, @jeresig, @ryan and @trevortimm

Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:

Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is ‘the nature of our society’ — Tech giant's executive chairman calls for greater transparency but declines to ‘pass judgment’ on spying operations — Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry's call …

More: Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, The Verge and emptywheel

Tweets: @wblau, @carlopiltz, @kgosztola and @youranonnews

Brian Fung / The Switch:

The FISA court will release more opinions because of Snowden

More: Wired, Secrecy News, Ars Technica, Forbes, New York Times, The Atlantic Wire, Softpedia News, The Verge, Techdirt, emptywheel and Los Angeles Times

Tweets: @emptywheel, @freedomofpress and @trevortimm

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Path, known for spamming and ad-fueled installs, plummets from top 10 in iPhone app rankings — Path Is S**tting the Bed — After a steady spell of buying its way to the top of download charts, Path is plummeting out of even the top thousand iPhone apps—which makes sense …

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @martinsfp, @dannysullivan, @caseynewton, @samfbiddle and @teroterotero

Ars Technica:

Gov't standards agency “strongly” discourages use of NSA-influenced algorithm — The NIST building in Boulder, Colorado. — Quinn Norton/Wired — Following revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) covert influence on computer security standards, the National Institute …

More: Softpedia News. Tweets: @kim_bruning and @michaelpilla

Michael Horowitz / Computerworld:

Google knows many of the world's Wi-Fi passwords thanks to backup defaults on Android devices — Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world — If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password.

More: Daily Dot, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Business Insider, gHacks Technology News and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @aaronwall

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

How Zynga went from social gaming powerhouse to has-been — In Zynga's July 2011 prospectus to future shareholders, company founder and CEO Mark Pincus outlined his firm's ambitious plan to take over the gaming world. — “My kids decided a few months ago that peek-a-boo was their favorite game,” he wrote.

More: SocialTimes

Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's IPO Plan: Don't Do What Facebook Did — Company Executives Work to Distance Themselves From Rival's Mistakes — The Twitter Inc. executives leading its long-expected initial public offering have a mission: Don't repeat the mistakes that muddied Facebook Inc.'s IPO.

More: MoneyBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch and Venture Capital Dispatch. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Doles Out Stock Grants to Keep Top Talent

More: ReadWrite, Softpedia News, Dice News, VatorNews, BuzzFeed, Daily Dot and AllThingsD. Tweets: @allthingsd

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