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November 18, 2013, 12:35 PM

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Max Raskin / Bloomberg:

DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing — U.S. Agencies to say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits — The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are telling a U.S. Senate committee that Bitcoins are legitimate financial instruments …

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TIME, TheStreet.com, Bitcoin Blogger, USA Today, SlashGear, CoinDesk, Wired, Mashable and Union Square Ventures. Tweets: @jonmatonis

John Phillips / CNBC:

Bitcoin surges above $600 ahead of key week — Bitcoin touched a fresh all-time high on Monday as the digital currency continued to gain favor with investors. — The virtual currency rose to just under $619 on Mt. Gox exchange Monday afternoon in Asia, up by over 25 percent from the same time on Sunday.

More: MoneyBeat, ValueWalk, Tech in Asia, MarketWatch, CoinDesk, Mashable, Singularity Hub and Business Insider. Tweets: @kashhill

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins

More: The Verge, WebProNews and Union Square Ventures

Jon Matonis / CoinDesk:

US has Already Ceded Dominance in Bitcoin Trading

More: The Next Web, Tech in Asia, TechNode, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Trends

Tweets: @shak and @coindesk

Marissa Mayer / Yahoo:

Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014 — Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …

More: Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Tweets: @csoghoian, @mikeisaac and @mattbuchanan

Burkhard Bilger / New Yorker:

Inside Google's Driverless Car — Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids.

More: The Verge, AllThingsD and Softpedia News

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.

More: Bijan Sabet, The Switch, Business Insider and New York Times

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mat, @danprimack, @mikeisaac, @drew, @fmanjoo, @drew, @reddy, @ezraklein and @alex

New York Times:

Rejected bid for Snapchat underscores difficulties Facebook has in keeping its cachet

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Stowe Boyd, TIME and The Next Web. Tweets: @stoweboyd

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW — Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot? — The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Gigaom, The Verge, CNET, PetaPixel, pocketnow.com, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidOS.in, PhoneArena, Android Beat and AndroidGuys

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 1520 review: the best Windows Phone device yet — Windows Phone has never looked this good. The latest update to Microsoft's mobile operating system, known as Update 3, added support for 1080p displays, large smartphone screens and state-of-the-art processors.

More: The Verge, BGR, ZDNet, The Next Web, CNET, Gizmodo and My Nokia Blog. Tweets: @tomwarren

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch available December 2nd for $350 — Where mobile devices are concerned, Qualcomm's normally a behind-the-scenes player, but that's all set to change next month. The company has announced that its Toq smartwatch is coming to the market on December 2nd.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks — Forums software maker vBulletin has been breached by hackers who got access to customer password data and other personal information, in a compromise that has heightened speculation there may be a critical vulnerability …

More: Krebs on Security and Inquirer

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

IBM and Nvidia Team Up on Supercomputing and Servers — Here's a second bit of interesting news on the supercomputing front. Computing giant IBM and chipmaker Nvidia will today announce a significant partnership that will have them teaming up on the design and building of new supercomputing systems and servers.

More: Engadget, Digits, CNET, Computerworld, Computerworld, The Register, TechEye, VentureBeat, AnandTech and SlashGear

New York Times:

CIA and DOD seek to block Russia from building US-based monitoring stations for GPS competitor — A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears — WASHINGTON — In the view of America's spy services, the next potential threat from Russia may not come from a nefarious cyberweapon …

More: Gizmodo and RT. Tweets: @digiphile

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox And the Internet of Things — Salesforce.com is launching Salesforce1, its next-generation CRM platform that it has designed for developers, independent software vendors and customers to connect apps …

More: NYT Bits, Bloomberg, CITEworld, The Register, Forbes, PC World, ZDNet, InfoWorld, The Next Web, Little Bird, SiliconANGLE, Gigaom and VentureBeat. Tweets: @bnara75

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