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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Edward Snowden's E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show — The U.S. government obtained a secret court order demanding that Edward Snowden's e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over its private SSL key, which would have allowed the FBI to wiretap the service's users.
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Tweets: @glynmoody and @declanm
| New York Times: |
Lavabit Founder Waged Privacy Fight as F.B.I. Pursued Snowden — DALLAS — One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with Mr. Levison's shutting …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Schools Complain iOS 7 Upgrade Stripped Filters From Students' iPads — Apple's iOS 7 was supposed to make it easier for schools to manage the iPads that are becoming increasingly common in the classroom. But for some, the latest version of the mobile operating system is proving to be a bit of a headache.
| Ars Technica: |
How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts — What he wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak. — The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked in $80 million in commissions from running Silk Road … | Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LG preps curved display smartphone, the G Flex — Samsung isn't the only company planning a smartphone with a curved display. LG will likely unveil the device in November, CNET has learned, although plans are not yet final. — Get ready for the LG G Flex.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Jukeboxing: Rdio brings free radio to mobile apps to stay in the ring against Spotify — Rdio is releasing a free version of its service today on iOS and Android, bringing personalized radio to non-paying users of its mobile apps for the first time. Free of advertising for now … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Smartphones Detailed: ‘Project Smith’ 3D Flagship Model And A Value Handset With FireOS — Amazon is in the process of developing two smartphones, one inexpensive model and one with a 3D eye-tracking interface, TechCrunch has learned. The details are somewhat sparse …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Snapchat introduces “Stories”, a rolling compilation of snaps from the last 24 hours — Snapchat's next big thing: ‘Stories’ that don't just disappear — The app that introduced ephemeral messages sets its sights on Facebook — Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's hands are shaking as he points to his iPhone.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Google will launch a native Google Music iOS app later this month — If you've been against trying Google's Play Music All Access streaming service for lack of an official iOS app, it may soon be time to change your tune. Sources aware of Google's plans have let slip to Engadget …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Samsung execs shown confidential Apple-Nokia patent license terms, allegedly misused information — It came to light on Wednesday that at least fifty Samsung employees retained access to highly confidential Apple-Nokia licensing terms originating from the Apple v. Samsung court trial … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Cue, The Startup Formerly Known As Greplin, Shuts Down Its App — Cue, the personal assistant app that grew out of a promising search product, has shut down. — The company left a brief note on their main page today, shown below. … The company was backed with at least $4.7 million …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent troll Lodsys chickens out, folds case rather than face Kaspersky Lab — In 2011, Lodsys seemed like it was working hard to earn the title of the nation's most-hated patent troll by sending threat letters to small developers. At the end of the day, it turns out that Lodsys is one tremulous troll.| David Kravets / Wired: |
How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying — Photo: Courtesy of Philip Weiss Auctions — It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Aiming to Get Into Smaller Devices, Intel Announces Big Push Into Arduino — Intel's latest effort to expand beyond its PC roots involves reaching out to hobbyists. — At Maker Fair in Rome, the chipmaker is announcing plans to partner with open-source hardware specialist Arduino.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Netflix app for iPad and iPhone updated with HD video and AirPlay streaming — Netflix brought 1080p streaming to Android 4.3 this summer, and now iPhone / iPad users can experience HD streams as well, provided they've updated to iOS 7. Another new feature in the latest update is support … | New York Times: |
Social Networks in a Battle for the Second Screen — After “Breaking Bad” drew 10.3 million viewers to one of the most crowd-satisfying finales in television history on Sunday, Twitter and Facebook raced to tell the news media about the throngs who shared their instant reactions to the show on the social networks.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Review: 1Password 4 for Mac is a massive, feature-packed update — Back in December, AgileBits released 1Password 4 for iPhone and iPad. The app presented a completely revamped take on password security, but lacked feature parity with the Mac version of the software.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
France approves law stopping Amazon from shipping discounted books for free — French lawmakers have it up to “here” with Amazon's book-selling tactics and they're not going to take it any more. In a rare alliance, France's ruling Socialist Party and the opposition UMP Party approved …
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Netskope Comes Out Of Stealth With $21M From Social+Capital And Lightspeed And A Cloud Platform To Manage Enterpise Apps — The double rise of cloud-based services and consumerization have been two of the biggest developments in enterprise IT, but they have also led to one of the biggest conundrums …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Runnable launches, lets developers find, edit, and even run code snippets on its site — Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library for World's Software Code — In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at the company.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup — Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition technology.
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| Damien McElroy / Telegraph: |
Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination — The head of Iran's cyber warfare programme has been shot dead, triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out targeted assassinations of key figures in the country's security apparatus.
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Fab.com cuts one-fifth of workforce — E-commerce startup Fab.com Inc will lay off nearly a fifth of its workforce beginning Thursday as it tries to attain profitability by automating more of its business. — The company, valued at $1 billion by private investors, said it will cut 101 jobs worldwide …
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