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November 4, 2013, 6:50 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves company after 23 years — Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top Vice President of Engineering for the iOS iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system has left the company, according to a source and corroborated by his LinkedIn profile.

More: Telegraph, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, MacRumors, CNET, I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, App Advice, Rev2.org and iClarified. Tweets: @markgurman

Tim Cook / Wall Street Journal:

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Fred Wilson / A VC:

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Aileen Lee / TechCrunch:

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

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Washington Post:

HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs — In May 2010, two months after the Affordable Care Act squeaked through Congress, President Obama's top economic aides were getting worried. Larry Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council …

More: Polygon and Forbes. Tweets: @tcarmody, @jpodhoretz, @nprinskeep, @arimelber, @jodyavirgan and @digiphile

Wall Street Journal:

Twitter Confronts Obstacles Abroad on Members, Ads — Three-fourths of Twitter Inc. users are overseas. But only one-fourth of its revenue comes from non-U.S. advertisers. To Twitter, that is a “substantial opportunity” as it readies to go public as soon as this week.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @serkantoto

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter's Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven

Tweets: @joshconstine

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!) — This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.” — According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …

Tweets: @jbrodkin, @mattbuchanan, @fmanjoo, @thestalwart, @jackshafer, @alexia, @thestalwart, @binarybits and @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer

Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees — On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago this Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever. The night before, someone had released a malevolent computer program on the fledgling computer network.

Tweets: @davemcclure, @alecjross, @damianogui and @odannyboy

Ian Brown / Guardian:

Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? — As countries move to protect their citizens' digital privacy, Ian Brown considers their options and the potential impact — There has been criticism of America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ from Latin American nations …

More: Guardian

Caroline Copley / Reuters:

Swisscom builds ‘Swiss Cloud’ as spying storm rages

More: Ars Technica and New York Times

Businessweek:

T-Mobile's Wacky Plan to Trash the Wireless Business Model — John Legere smiled, the kind of smile reserved for a man who knows he has already won and is just waiting to announce it. Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US (TMUS), the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country …

Tweets: @robpegoraro

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Report: Windows Phone overtakes iOS in Italy and makes progress in Europe — There's good news for Microsoft's mobile efforts, as according to a latest report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showing data for the three months to September 2013, Windows Phone has overtaken iOS in Italy and now makes …

More: Kantar Worldpanel News …, BetaNews and TechCrunch

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Apparent hack of limo reservation service exposes 850k customers, including VIPs and celebs — Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride — A hacker break in at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information …

More: Gizmodo and I4U News

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung Extends Agreement to License Nokia Patents, Though Deal's Price Tag Yet to Be Determined — Nokia announced Monday that Samsung has extended for five years a patent agreement that was set to expire at the end of this year. — However, a clause in the deal means that the price …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet and Nokia

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