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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional — A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional. — U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found …
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses’ — Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions. — The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency's logo …
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| Sara Morrison / The Wire: |
‘60 Minutes’: NSA Good, Snowden Bad — As if that whole retracted Benghazi report and the Amazon commercial/drone reveal didn't undermine 60 Minutes' credibility enough in the last few weeks, here's another gem: a report on how the NSA has simply been misunderstood by all those Snowden leaks and is a good guy, really.
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See also Mediagazer| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
NSA alleges ‘BIOS plot to destroy PCs’ — Un-named PC maker sought help to defeat un-named nation's PC-bricking plan — Senior National Security Agency (NSA) officials have told US news magazine program “60 Minutes” that a foreign nation tried to infect computers with a BIOS-based virus …
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 includes notification center and Siri-like personal assistant — Microsoft is preparing to ship its Windows Phone 8.1 update with two significant changes: a notification center and a Siri-like personal assistant. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed … | Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits: |
Photosynth creator and architect of Bing mobile and mapping leaves Microsoft to join Google — A Microsoft Star Goes to Google — SEATTLE — Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a respected engineer and software designer at Microsoft, has left the company to join its rival Google.
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| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits: |
As Walt Mossberg exits, WSJ's new personal tech team includes Geoffrey Fowler and new hires Joanna Stern, Wilson Rothman, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles — WSJ Announces Personal Tech Reviewing Team — Today we are announcing expanded Wall Street Journal coverage of personal technology …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
AOL's Tim Armstrong reluctantly lets go of Patch as shareholder pressures mount — AOL Chief's White Whale Finally Slips His Grasp — Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL, is finally winding down Patch, a network of local news sites that he helped invent and that AOL bought after he took over.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim — Search giant insists lawsuit concerning UK internet users' privacy should be brought in California where it is based — Google has been called “arrogant and immoral” for arguing that a privacy claim brought by internet users …
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
Two More Executives Leaving BlackBerry — EVP of Global Sales, Official in Charge of M&A Strategy to Depart in Weeks — TORONTO—The leadership upheaval at BlackBerry Ltd. continues under interim Chief Executive John Chen, according to people familiar with the matter.
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Ho Ho No! Amazon Apologizes After Customers Lose Access to Christmas Content. — If you buy a digital song, book or movie, do you really own that song, book or movie? — Or are you just renting a collection of bits, which are never really going to be yours?
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Boing Boing, TorrentFreak, BetaNews, Gizmodo, TechHive, DSLreports, ExtremeTech, Softpedia News, Guardian, Gigaom and The Next Web. Tweets: @chartier
| David Streitfeld / NYT Bits: |
Amazon Strikers Take Their Fight to Seattle — This post has been updated to include new reporting. — Amazon warehouse employees in Germany walked off the job again Monday even as they tried to take their case directly to the e-commerce giant's Seattle headquarters.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Despite higher ARPU generated by smartphones, carriers still complain of subsidy burden — Shameless Carriers — By Jean-Louis Gassée in mobile internet 4 Comments Tags: att, iphone, verizon … Until about two weeks ago, it seemed that our major wireless carriers had given …
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| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
The Download Hits Middle Age (and It Shows) — The slow but steady rise of on-demand services like Spotify and Rdio coincided with a drop-off in sales for various download fomats. — The digital download hit middle age in 2013. Although retirement may be far in the future … | Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
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