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November 27, 2013, 1:55 PM
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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
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.
Adrian Chen / New York Times:
Much Ado About Bitcoin  —  FOR the obsessive followers of the volatile virtual currency bitcoin, the price of a single bitcoin at the time their fixation began holds undue significance.  I know one bitcoin cost around $9 when I first stumbled on it in the summer of 2011.
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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 …

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