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October 31, 2013, 8:50 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.
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.
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.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
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” …
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.
Phys.org:
Future Internet aims to sever links with servers  —  This is a diagram showing how information would be shared on the PURSUIT Internet, compared with the present architecture.  Credit: Barney Brown, University of Cambridge.  —  A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more …
More: Gigaom, Gizmodo and redOrbit
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Apple working on a fix for new Retina MacBook input issues  —  Apple on Wednesday acknowledged an issue with some models of its newest MacBook Pro with Retina Display that would leave the keyboard and trackpad unresponsive.  —  Those computers were released last week alongside the debut of new iPads.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
NSA Fallout Hits AT&T's Ambitions In Europe  —  AT&T Inc. T -0.03% 's ambitions to expand in Europe have run into unexpected hurdles amid the growing outcry across the region over surveillance by the National Security Agency.  German and other European officials said any attempt by AT&T …
More: Gigaom and SlashGearTweets: @samschech
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Flurry in 400K apps, tracks 1.2B devices a month with a reach greater than Facebook or Google  —  Meet The Company That Tracks More Phones Than Google Or Facebook  —  Picture this scenario.  A bored woman sits waiting in an airline lounge.  She scrolls through her iPhone and taps …
Tweets: @forbes
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 …
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

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