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Nexus 5 Bares All In Leaked Crystal Clear 7-Minute HD Video — A crystal clear 7-minute video of the Nexus 5 (I think we can accept that's going to be the name at this point) was just leaked on the web. It's an older build than the one leaked by TuttoAndroid yesterday, but look …
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| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong, Russia were a ‘diversion’ — (Reuters) - The four laptop computers that former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden carried with him to Hong Kong and Moscow were a “diversion” and contained no secrets, according to an ex-CIA official who met with Snowden in Russia this week.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google CIO Ben Fried on the company's internal tools and restrictions — Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works — It was the former Google employee's first day out in the real world. He removed the enterprise security settings from his iPhone, and installed the apps he wasn't allowed …
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Try as it might, San Francisco based EFF can't avoid Washington — Try as it might, anti-surveillance group can't avoid Washington — SAN FRANCISCO — A jolt of pride and panic flashed through the Electronic Frontier Foundation when the first images of Edward Snowden appeared …
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| Walter Frick / HBR.org: |
How Twitter's Leadership Drama Explains its Success — One founder pushed aside in the early days of the company, his name scrubbed from its founding story. Another ousted from the CEO role by a co-founder, former boss, and seed investor. That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money — Yahoo has just acquired Bread, a 2.5 year old startup that had raised $3.5 million [Update: and we hear was low on cash and shopping itself around to several companies]. Bread let people make money or generate donations by designing interstitial ads.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
You're Not Just The Product, You're The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You) — Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online … | Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
The Internet's best hope for a Do Not Track standard is falling apart. Here's why. — Should businesses be forced to stop tracking your movements on the Internet? — It sounds like a simple question. But judging by the growing despair among members of a diverse group assigned … | Joseph Walker / Wall Street Journal: |
State Parole Boards Use Software to Decide Which Inmates to Release — Programs look at prisoners' biographies for patterns that predict future crime — At the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas, corrections officials collect biographical data on inmates that will be evaluated by the state parole board.| Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy: |
Lavabit Challenges Contempt Order in the Fourth Circuit: An Analysis of Its Arguments — Today Lavabit filed a brief before the Fourth Circuit challenging a civil contempt order for its refusal to turn over its encryption key that the government wants to enable the government to conduct surveillance of Edward Snowden.
| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Kevin Systrom, Instagram's man of vision, now eyes up world domination — The man who sold his photo-sharing app to Facebook for $1bn at the age of 28 talks about his continuing ambition for Instagram — Kevin Systrom might be the luckiest man in technology.
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Microsoft CEO Search Reveals Board Rifts — Directors Have Approached at Least Two Microsoft Executives and Eight Outsiders, Including Ford's Mulally. Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT +1.10% search for a new chief executive is exposing divisions of opinion among directors over the 38-year-old company's … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden Internet — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — The newest search engine in the world is hidden in the shadows of the Internet, but it shines a light on those shadows that ordinary search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo can't.
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