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December 22, 2013, 5:55 AM

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Almost Human: The Surreal, Cyborg Future of Telemarketing — This is a story about how the future gets weird. — It's about how humans interact with each other, and machines, and systems that can only properly be called cyborg. — Let's start, though, with a man sitting on a couch.

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @nd_kane and @zseward. Thanks:@alexismadrigal

Ryan Tate / Wired:

News Corp's Storyful Buy Proves Old Media Still Loves Tech — Tech history is littered with the wreckage of startups acquired and ruined by old media companies. To a certain extent, old media realizes the error of its ways, but that doesn't stop it from trying again.

Eric Calouro / newsBTC:

Overstock.com to Begin Accepting Bitcoin Second Half of 2014 — In late October, there was a brief mention of retailer Overstock.com in a New York Times piece that noted the online retailer was considering accepting bitcoin, but decided they would put a hold on that objective …

David Auerbach / Slate:

San Francisco tech workers rarely resemble the ruthless techo-libertarians portrayed in media — The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco — The press portrays a ruthless band of techno-libertarians taking over the city. The reality is much different.

Tweets: @dr_pugh, @monstro, @slate, @davewiner and @nils_gilman

USA Today:

Protesters vandalize Google bus, block Apple shuttle

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Crowley on Foursquare's plans: scale ad products, useful alerts for users who don't open app — Why Do People Keep Giving Foursquare Money? — Foursquare just raised a bunch of money, again. This time it's a Series D round of $35M, back in April of this year it was $41M in debt financing.

More: Inside DFJ, ReadWrite and Lastest ITProPortal news. Tweets: @caseynewton

Etay Maor / Trusteer:

Gameover malware variant steals BTC China users' credentials to gain control of accounts — Bitcoin Exchange In China - Gameover? — Cybercriminals' interest in Bitcoin has continued to grow alongside the mainstream media's heavy coverage of the currency and its high rate of adoption by both consumers and businesses.

More: CoinDesk, Softpedia News, InformationWeek, Softpedia News, SC Magazine and The Register

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default — Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to Reuters.

More: Ethan Heilman. Tweets: @digiphile

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

RSA received $10 million to use backdoored NSA algorithm by default in crypto software BSafe

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Thanks:@joeross

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Music-Discovery Service ExFM Pulls the Plug — After a four-year-run, music startup ExFM is throwing in the towel. — The company, which operates a music-discovery website, as well as iPhone and Android apps, says it will shut down its apps, as well as the guts of its site, on Jan. 15.

More: Exfm, hypebot and The Next Web. Tweets: @caseynewton

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Microsoft gifts 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage to Windows Phone users for a year — Microsoft is distributing some holiday cheer to Windows Phone owners today with an email inviting them to activate a bonus 20GB of SkyDrive storage. The bump in cloud storage will be active for a year …

More: Engadget, LiveSide.net, VentureBeat, WinBeta, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends and Geeky Gadgets

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

Details of the ‘Mega Conspiracy’ Behind Megaupload … Some lively new details arrived today in the long saga of Megaupload, the file-sharing site whose founder, Kim Dotcom, is currently suing the New Zealand police while the U.S. government attempts to extradite him to face charges of criminal conspiracy.

More: Wired, TorrentFreak, The Verge and SlashGear

Tweets: @tomgara and @tomgara

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