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October 25, 2013, 5:00 PM

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iFixit:

MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown — We took apart the new 15" Retina MacBook Pro with the hopes that Apple made it more repair-friendly than the debut Mid 2012 model. Unfortunately, things didn't really work out in our favor; in fact, they took a turn for the (slightly) worse.

More: The Switch, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, I4U News, Inquirer, Electronista, Mashable and iMore

Tweets: @b_fung and @ifixit

iFixit:

MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2013 Teardown

More: Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, Macworld and dailywireless.org

AllThingsD:

Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation — Only a few months after closing a Series B round of $60 million that valued the ephemeral messaging company at $800 million, Snapchat has been in talks for another funding that values it at up to $3.6 billion, according to sources close to the situation.

More: Betabeat, Forbes, Mashable, socalTECH.com, Gawker and Digital Media Wire

Tweets: @mdudas, @benparr and @evelynrusli

J. Glenn Künzler / MacTrast:

Apple may be allowing Mac App Store updates of some pirated apps to reduce legacy support costs — The Truth About ‘Free’ Mac App Store Software Upgrades in OS X Mavericks — There have been a number of reports lately revealing that OS X Mavericks seems to be allowing users to …

More: Guardian, iPhone, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, iClarified, iMore, TUAW, 9to5Mac and MacNN

Tweets: @applespotlight and @firefoxpl

Thanks:@jgkunzler

Peter Cohen / iMore:

Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation

More: SlashGear

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Some Power Users Are Unhappy With Lost Features in the New iWork

More: Betalogue and Daring Fireball

Reuters:

Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles — (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.

More: Gizmodo UK, SlashGear, Gizmodo, DSLreports, Inquirer, SiliconBeat, Softpedia News, Guardian, dailywireless.org and I4U News. Tweets: @froomkin

Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire:

Germany and Brazil Will Take NSA Spying Frustrations to the UN

More: Foreign Policy, The Verge, European Parliament, Bloomberg, Guardian, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Reuters, PC World and Gigaom

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It — The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers …

More: The Verge, StrictlyVC, Holtz Communications …, SlashGear, Gigaom, Techdirt, Business Insider and The Raw Story

Tweets: @jonfortt, @legalnomads, @johnpollock, @eegilbert and @bryanappleyard

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Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Google could be building a massive floating data center near San Francisco's Treasure Island — Is Google building a huge floating data center in SF Bay? — This large structure, which is likely being built by Google, could be a floating data center. It is located on a barge …

More: Gigaom and TIME. Thanks:@paulsloan

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton's Twitter Book A Movie — Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton's book “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal”, TechCrunch has learned.

More: Betabeat, WebProNews, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million In Bitcoins From Ross Ulbricht, Alleged Owner Of Silk Road — The Silk Road made a small fortune during its two and a half years as the web's biggest anonymous black market for illegal drugs. As of Friday, at least one $28.5 million chunk of that fortune now belongs to the FBI.

More: Gizmodo, The Verge and Gigaom. Tweets: @a_greenberg

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Medium quietly opens to all, requires Twitter to join and Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on the desktop to write — In its weekly digest email, publishing platform Medium today quietly announced that registration is open to all. You'll still need a Twitter account and an email address …

More: Medium and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Carmel DeAmicis / PandoDaily:

Uh oh, Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat — Last week, I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in Missouri and Texas K-12 schools had hit some road bumps. In North Carolina when 73,000 Amplify tablets arrived — from Robert Murdoch's edtech company …

More: The Switch, AppleInsider, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @pandodaily

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

NSA director says journalists should be stopped from “selling”, “giving out” Snowden documents — Keith Alexander Says The US Gov't Needs To Figure Out A Way To Stop Journalists From Reporting On Snowden Leaks — Apparently not satisfied with just setting fire …

More: Politico and Armed with Science. Tweets: @csoghoian and @trevortimm. See also Mediagazer

Jenny Hollander / Bustle:

What Are Instagram's Rules For Photos? Gun, Drug Sales Good; Bikini Line Bad — The White House has picked a bad week to partner up with Instagram. The photo-sharing application, populated by more than 80 million users, is under fire for nixing a user's account after she posted a photograph …

More: NOISEY

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

BlackBerry does ‘not approve of or condone’ the fishy BBM for Android reviews, denies any involvement — BlackBerry recently came under fire for a slew of suspicious reviews with five-star ratings on Google Play for its recently launched BBM for Android app.

More: Network World, PC Magazine, eWeek, Examiner, Financial Post, Inquirer, Yahoo! News, SlashGear, ValueWalk, TechSpot, CNET, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, memeburn, CITEworld, BGR, Electronista, Gizmodo UK, Gizmodo and Ars Technica

New York Times:

Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right — MILLIONS of Americans negotiating America's health care system know all too well what the waiting room of a doctor's office looks like. Now, thanks to HealthCare.gov, they know what a “virtual waiting room” looks like, too.

More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechPresident and Wonkblog

Tweets: @abbynormative, @harper, @arrington, @alecjross, @timoreilly, @cwood, @joetrippi, @derekeder, @lachlan, @cjoh, @abumuqawama, @scilib, @pbarbe, @stevesi, @mikeolson, @sacca, @anonynewsnet, @kevinmarks and @joshuagreen

Washington Post:

Full testing of HealthCare.gov began too late, contractors say

More: New York Times, comScore, Inc., TIME, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Fox News, Washington Wire, Nextgov, Wonkblog, Wall Street Journal and Computerworld. Tweets: @pewresearch

Jordan Mallory / Joystiq:

PlayStation 4 day-one features outlined, internet required for first Blu-ray/DVD playback — When the PlayStation 4 launches in North America on November 15, some (but not all!) of its swanky new features will be available for use by the disheveled, exhausted consumers that spent all night waiting …

More: PlayStation.Blog, The Verge, Engadget, Digital Spy, The Escapist, Massively, Eurogamer.net • … and Neoseeker Hardware …. Tweets: @kyleorl

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung announces $9.56 billion profit in latest record-breaking quarter — Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint. The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue …

More: Associated Press, VentureBeat, TechSpot, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Gigaom, BBC, International Business Times, Digits, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, BGR and Electronista

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung Profit Surges as Cheaper Handsets Team With Chips

More: TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, bizjournals, Android Community, pocketnow.com and Engadget

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Samsung Reports 26% Growth In Q3 Operating Profit, But Warns Of Slower Smartphone Sales

More: Reuters

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