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Guardian:

NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users — • Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor — • Tool funded by US government and relied on by dissidents and activists — • Core security of network remains intact but NSA has some success attacking users' computers

More: Washington Post, Ars Technica, Techdirt, The Verge, The Switch, eWeek, InfoWorld, Engadget, PC World, Threatpost, Salon, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Boing Boing and Lastest ITProPortal news

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Guardian:

‘Tor Stinks’ presentation - read the full document — Top-secret presentation says ‘We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time’ but ‘with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users’

More: AllThingsD, The Verge and emptywheel

Tweets: @eff, @pondswimmer, @spyblog, @rj_gallagher, @csoghoian and @eff

Bruce Schneier / Guardian:

Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public

Tweets: @valdiskrebs, @pierre, @slworona, @vikram_nz and @ramez

Fred Vogelstein / New York Times:

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ — The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

More: iMore, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, iLounge, Salon, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld and TechHive

Tweets: @benjamincousins, @palafo, @hugolindgren, @kevinroose, @josephkibe, @doingitwrong and @pkafka

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Former Apple Engineer Gives Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Original iPhone Introduction

Joanna Stern / ABC News:

iPhone 5C's price cut to $50 at Best Buy through Monday just two weeks after launch — Best Buy Drops the Price of iPhone 5c to $50 … Just two weeks after hitting the market, Best Buy will begin offering a discount on Apple's iPhone 5c. From today, Oct. 3, to Monday, Oct. 7, the iPhone 5c will be available for $50.

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Apple's iPhone 5s tops sales charts at big 4 US carriers, iPhone 5c close behind — Cupertino's flagship iPhone 5s was the best-selling smartphone for all four major U.S. carriers — AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-mobile — while the new iPhone 5c followed closely behind, according to new tracking data.

More: CNET, BGR, TUAW, ITworld.com, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone in Canada Blog

Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Two Weeks After Launch, Walmart Drops Price of the iPhone 5c to $45 After Best Buy's Offer

More: MacRumors and TechnoBuffalo

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook reflects on second anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing in letter to employees — On the eve of the second anniversary of the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reflected on the moment in a company-wide email. A source has provided a copy:

More: MacRumors, The Switch, The Verge, bizjournals, WebProNews, Fortune, Yahoo! News, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, Apple News aus Cupertino, Softpedia News and Business Insider. Thanks:@deancorp

Jessica Ravitz / CNN:

Voiceover actor Susan Bennett of Georgia revealed as the original US Siri voice — 'I'm the original voice of Siri' — Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) — For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel.

Bloomberg:

Microsoft in talks with HTC to add Windows Phone to Android models at little or no cost — Microsoft Said to Ask HTC to Put Windows on More Phones — Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC about adding its Windows operating system to HTC's Android-based smartphones at little or no cost …

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Apple officially appeals in ebook pricing case — Apple has filed its appeal against federal judge Denise Cote's verdict in the ebook pricing case. Apple seeks to overturn Judge Cote's July verdict that it conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices, as well as the September 6 injunction …

More: Computerworld, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, Macworld, The Verge, TUAW, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear and Macgasm. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

MongoDB Becomes King of NYC Startups With $1.2 Billion Valuation — MongoDB Inc., capitalizing on the popularity of its online database software, raised $150 million in a venture-funding round that would make it the most valuable Internet startup in New York.

More: Max Schireson's blog, MongoDB, Betabeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet and VentureBeat

Tweets: @matthewkalan and @sarahfrier

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Here are the secret edits Twitter made to its IPO filing, hoping investors wouldn't notice — Twitter secretly submitted four drafts of its IPO prospectus to regulators before making public the version that drew so much attention yesterday. The changes made in the interim expose concerns …

More: Digits and Reuters. Tweets: @zseward, @zseward, @jessicalessin, @zseward, @jdh, @danprimack and @yoreekoh. See also Mediagazer

Ritchie King / Quartz:

Twitter's average ad revenue per user was $0.55 in Q2 2013, compared to $1.41 for Facebook — Twitter didn't disclose its average revenue per user, but we've calculated it for you, anyway — Ahead of Twitter's IPO filing, the key figure anticipated by investors was the company's average revenue per user.

More: GigaOM, Wonkblog, Marketing Land, New York Times, Softpedia News and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

Twitter to investors: We are the anti-Facebook

More: Guardian, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Digits, BuzzFeed, PE Hub Blog and Tom Simonite. Tweets: @joshconstine

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter's International Revenue Is Skyrocketing, But The Company Is Worried About Sina Weibo And Line

Robert Hof / Forbes:

Twitter's losses are accelerating again, totalling $69M in the first half of 2013

More: Guardian, TechHive, Digits, AllThingsD, Wired, Fortune, Internet Evolution, Daily Dot and SocialTimes

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

iCloud Alternative Loom Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round — A startup called Loom, which begin its life as the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing startup Popset, is working to build a better iCloud for both consumers and developers. Currently, the company offers a cloud storage and syncing service …

More: AllThingsD, Y Combinator Posthaven, Macworld, Loom and ParisLemon

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple to promote Mac Apps for education and enterprise with new volume purchase program — Apple has informed Mac developers that it is preparing to launch the ability for educational institutions and developers to purchase apps from the Mac App Store in volume for a discount.

More: Apple News aus Cupertino and SlashGear

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

General Assembly Will Close Its Co-Working Space In New York Next Year, Affecting 100 People — General Assembly, one of New York's greatest co-working spaces, is closing that part of its business in 2014, Business Insider has learned. — General Assembly's co-working space in New York …

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, Betabeat and TechCrunch

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Moto X software update with camera improvements rolling out on AT&T — First T-Mobile then Sprint and now AT&T is rolling out a software update to the Moto X handset that's meant to improve the camera performance. I noted the inconsistency of the Moto X camera output in my review …

More: ATT Blogs, Engadget, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Softpedia News, pocketnow.com and Droid Life

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