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October 31, 2013, 4:25 AM

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Washington Post:

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …

Washington Post:

How the NSA is infiltrating private networks — The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by overall data traffic.

More: Associated Press. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

PRISM already gave the NSA access to tech giants. Here's why it wanted more.

More: Mercury News, CNET, PandoDaily, 9to5Google, New York Times and emptywheel. Tweets: @d_seaman

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

NSA Issues Non-Denial Denial Of Infiltrating Google & Yahoo's Networks

More: emptywheel

Facebook:

Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the third quarter, which ended September 30, 2013. — “For nearly ten years, Facebook has been on a mission to connect the world,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.

More: Business Insider, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, CNNMoney.com, Wall Street Journal, TechHive, ITworld.com, New York Times, AllThingsD, WebProNews, ZDNet, AllFacebook, BGR, Marketing Land, Engadget, Reuters, ZDNet, Digits, VentureBeat, Forbes, GeekWire, MobileSyrup.com and AllThingsD

Tweets: @jonerlichman, @tim, @nickbilton, @thestalwart, @hunterwalk, @panzer, @hamburger and @benedictevans

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Admits Some Decrease Of Usage Amongst Young Teens For The First Time — Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused, mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on today's earnings call that Facebook “did see a decrease in daily users specifically …

More: ReadWrite, The Huffington Post, CNET, Bloomberg, Mashable, Los Angeles Times and Digits

Tweets: @pkedrosky and @joshconstine

Thanks:@chrisvelazco

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Q3 '13 Beats With $2.02B Revenue, $0.25 EPS, With 49% Of Ad Revenue Now Via Mobile

More: TechCrunch, bizjournals, VatorNews, internetretailer.com, eWeek, AdExchanger, ReadWrite, The Register and Electronista

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Facebook grows per-user revenue in every single global territory

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook passes 1.19 billion monthly active users, 874 million mobile users, and 728 million daily users

More: The Verge and BuzzFeed

Amir Efrati / jessica lessin:

Android's Next Targets: Wearables, TVs, Low-End Phones — The launch of Google Inc.'s Android KitKat, the next version of the most widely used operating software for smartphones and tablets, is drawing near. Google executives haven't announced a release date but people who have been briefed on KitKat say that it is coming soon.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, Yahoo! News, Engadget, PhoneArena, Android Beat, Android Central and SlashGear

Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @amir

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Google's Glass Accessory Store Is Coming Online (Wow. Stuff's Expensive!) — Google is bringing an official accessory store for Google Glass online this evening, based on reports first shared in a private Google forum for Glass Explorers. — The store appears to be part of the “My Glass” …

More: The Verge, IntoMobile, Glass Almanac, Phandroid, The Next Web, Glass Almanac, Android Beat and Electronista. Thanks:@mattmcgee

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Steam rises to 65 million active users, eclipsing Xbox Live — Steam now has more than 65 million active accounts. The figure marks a 30 percent rise in players over the last year. The video game digital download platform also boasts daily peak concurrent users of more than six million.

More: Engadget, Gigaom, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, SlashGear, Softpedia News, IGN, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Brier Dudley's blog, Kotaku and The Tech Report

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Fantastical 2: The calendar Apple should have built... again — After bringing natural language input to the mobile calendar experience with Fantastical for iPhone last November, Flexibits today released a brand new version of what was already my absolute favorite calendar app.

More: MacStories, Engadget, The Verge, iPhone, Gigaom, TechCrunch, iMore, TUAW, Redmond Pie, Pocket-lint, PandoDaily, Cult of Mac, TechHive and The Next Web

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Google sticks with VP8, opposes Cisco's push to make H.264 the default codec for WebRTC — There goes that plan to unite the industry behind one video single codec: Google intends to stick with VP8 as its default codec for real-time communication, even after Cisco won support from Mozilla …

More: Monty Montgomery. Tweets: @nikcub

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC's future

More: Cisco Blog, The Mozilla Blog, Brendan Eich, Engadget, Ars Technica and InfoQ. Tweets: @knobtviker. Thanks:@jank0

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Sprint promises 60Mbps LTE today, demos gigabit cellular in the lab — Sprint today said it has demonstrated 1Gbps “over-the-air speed at its lab,” in an early preview of things to come. — The cellular company calls the technology “Sprint Spark.” Sprint claims that Spark …

More: Featured News, AllThingsD, Faster, AnandTech, NVIDIA, Yahoo! News, dailywireless.org, Digits, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, The Verge and LAPTOP Magazine

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Sprint intros first phones to tap its trio of 4G LTE network frequencies

More: Sprint, AndroidHeadlines.com, Computerworld and Droid Life

Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:

After Walt Mossberg and David Pogue: Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic — For well over a decade, the two most influential voices about consumer technology have been a sixty-six-year-old man who lives just outside of Washington, D.C. and a fifty-year-old man who resides in Westport, Connecticut.

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @laurengoode and @samfbiddle. See also Mediagazer

Lisa Chow / NPR:

Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff … You're on Amazon.com. You're buying, say, a toaster, and you're checking out the customer reviews. You assume the people writing these reviews are people like you — people who wanted a toaster, went online and bought one.

More: The Verge, Consumerist, Daily Dot and Betabeat

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data — Ben Simo's analysis of data sent by HealthCare.gov to analytics providers shows information that could be used to hijack a user's account. — Ben Simo, Is There A Problem Here? — Apparently, HealthCare.gov isn't just having a few backend problems.

More: Is There A Problem Here?. Tweets: @kerpen and @cjoh

TIME:

Exclusive: Password-Reset Security Glitch Fixed on HealthCare.gov

More: Associated Press, The Verge, Is There A Problem Here?, Nextgov, The Switch and The Verge

Steve Rosenbush / The CIO Report:

Facebook Tests Software to Track Your Cursor on Screen — Risk-based authentication solutions can help thwart cyber intruders' attempts to access enterprise systems. By learning users' expected log-in patterns, and by setting appropriate risk thresholds for various systems …

More: Ars Technica, AllFacebook, CNET, Digits, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Soshable, Mashable, Engadget, Consumerist, Pocket-lint, The Raw Story, Valleywag, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @evelynrusli

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Tizen makes stealth pitch to Samsung's Android acolytes — Samsung's developer conference featured one panel on Tizen. Attendees received free t-shirts. — (Credit: Shara Tibken/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO — Android may have dominated Samsung's developer conference, but that sure didn't stop Tizen from making its quiet pitch.

More: TechnoBuffalo and PhoneArena

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

World's first Bitcoin ATM sees 81 exchanges, $10,000 in transactions during first day — History was made in Bitcoin world on Tuesday when the world's first Bitcoin ATM opened in Vancouver, B.C. — At the Waves Coffee House in downtown Vancouver, 81 people made Bitcoin transactions that totaled $10,000.

More: CBC News, ABC News, ctvnews.ca, Mashable, english.cri.cn, TIME, Reuters, SiliconANGLE and CoinDesk

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