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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, @declanm, @ioerror, @ggreenwald, @nickmaher and @ashk4n
| 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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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Feds Take Down Online Fraud Bazaar ‘Silk Road’, Arrest Alleged Mastermind — Defendant Charged With Drug Trafficking, Hacking, Money Laundering — Prosecutors in New York today said that federal agencies have taken over the Silk Road, a sprawling underground Web site that has earned infamy as the “eBay of drugs.”
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
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| Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: |
| 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.| 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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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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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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| 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.| 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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| 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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Facebook building a $120 million, 394-unit housing community near its offices — The Social Network Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices — Facebook Inc.'s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, Calif., is so full of cushy perks that some employees may never want to go home.
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| 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.| 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 …
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FOSS Patents, Fortune, MacRumors, CNET, Computerworld, MacDailyNews and Engadget
| 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.| 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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The Register, The Verge, Softpedia News, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Zero Hedge, Jerusalem Post and DEBKAfile …
Tweets: @johndalytv, @nycjim, @jebboone, @draglikepull and @ggreenwald
| 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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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Yahoo reveals a new vulnerability reporting policy with rewards of up to $15,000 — Yahoo revealed today that it will dole out rewards of up to $15,000 (and starting from $150) to individuals and firms that inform the company of bugs and vulnerabilities classified as new, unique and/or high-risk issues … Sponsor Posts
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