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The Huffington Post:
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations …
Lorraine Luk / Digits:
iPhone 5S Wait Time Drops as Foxconn Boosts Production  —  The waiting time for iPhone 5Ss has shortened significantly as major assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has been running its factories around the clock, adding more workers to its production lines.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
90% of iPhone 5s models now in stock at Apple retail stores  —  Supply of Apple's new flagship handset, the iPhone 5s, has nearly caught up with demand, as a new survey of the company's retail stores finds that 90 percent of models are available.  —  Availability of the iPhone 5s is even greater …
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic  —  Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic after concluding that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global communications systems, said people familiar with the emerging plans.
Ian Traynor / Guardian:
NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements  —  After Edward Snowden revelations, EU executive underlines US compliance with European law and ‘how things have gone badly’  —  The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangements with the US …
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
America falls a dismal 31st on ranking of consumer download speeds (report)  —  30 countries have faster Internet than America, at least according to the most recent update from Speedtest.net.  —  Speedtest.net compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe, calculating the rolling mean in Mbps.
Chris Brook / Threatpost:
Nearly 2000 Sites Vulnerable to Ruby on Rails Cookie Problem  —  A lingering security issue in Ruby on Rails that stems from a setting in the framework's cookie-based storage mechanism is still present in almost 2,000 websites.  —  Sites using an old version of Ruby on Rails that relies on CookieStore …
More: Softpedia News.  Tweets: @virusbtn
Fernando Alfonso III / Daily Dot:
Rigging Time's Person of the Year poll?  All in a day's twerk  —  When I heard that Time magazine was running another online voting component with its prestigious Person of the Year poll, the first thing I thought was, “Not again.”  —  Didn't the news magazine learn anything in 2009 …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Nokia announces the Lumia 525, an upgraded successor to the top-selling Lumia 520  —  Nokia has extended its family of smartphones with the Lumia 525, an affordable device that succeeds the popular Lumia 520 - which is its top selling Windows Phone device worldwide.
Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch:
Target (Yes, That Target) Wants To Launch An Accelerator In India  —  Target has long looked to India to fuel its software applications and back-office projects.  Now, the Minneapolis-based retailer is doubling down on the country's tech potential.  —  Come January 2014 …
Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review:
New inks and tools allow 3-D printing of lithium-ion technology.  —  By making the basic building blocks of batteries out of ink, Harvard materials scientist Jennifer Lewis is laying the groundwork for lithium-ion batteries and other high-performing electronics that can be produced with 3-D printers.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Xbox Video launches on the web ahead of Windows Phone version  —  Microsoft is unveiling its Xbox Video web service today, ahead of a planned app release for Windows Phone.  The web version, available at video.xbox.com, provides the same access to TV shows and movies as the existing Xbox Video app …
Casey Sullivan / Reuters:
Hewlett-Packard, CEO Whitman ordered to defend securities class action  —  (Reuters) - A California federal judge has ordered Hewlett-Packard Co and Chief Executive Meg Whitman to defend a securities shareholder class action that claims they knew statements about HP's acquisition of software company Autonomy were misleading.
More: Bloomberg
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Bitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, up over 62% in a week  —  Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time.  The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the largest exchanges.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Google releases “OK Google” Chrome extension for hands-free voice search on the desktop  —  Google announced today on Google+ that it's releasing a new extension for Chrome that will enable hands-free activation of the voice search features it rolled out earlier this year.
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
Box Acquires dLoop To Enhance Security With Fine-Grained Data Analytics Technology  —  Box has acquired dLoop, a startup that provides ways for IT administrators to control access to content with finer granularity.  The acquisition will give Box a level of data analytics that is often a required feature for enterprise customers.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter Continues Tweet Recommendation Experiments With Fav Happy @Magicstats  —  Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats.  The account, whose description reads ‘I favorite the best tweets I see in real-time’ appears to be doing just that.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
Moto G review: an affordable smartphone, done right  —  Since Motorola was acquired by a certain tech giant last year, its new owner hasn't had a particularly strong impact on the way it does business.  Not too long ago, in fact, Motorola dealt another brag-hand of Droids …

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability

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