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December 22, 2013, 1:20 PM

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

iOS 7 untethered Jailbreak released from Evasi0n — Just in time for Christmas, the Evasi0n team has released an iOS 7 compatible Jailbreak. I've just jailbroken my wife's iOS iPhone 5s (long story) so I'm pretty sure it is legit. … The process is extremely straightforward and took about 5 minutes to complete on an iPhone 5s.

More: Digital Trends, VentureBeat, BGR, 9to5Mac, iMore, TechCrunch, CNET, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, The Verge, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, Avinashtech, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Tweets: @saurik, @chronic, @saurik, @pod2g, @tapbot_paul and @saurik

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: The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @nd_kane, @josephcohen and @zseward

Thanks:@alexismadrigal

David Auerbach / Slate:

San Francisco tech workers rarely resemble the ruthless techno-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, @slate, @nils_gilman, @monstro and @davewiner

USA Today:

Protesters vandalize Google bus, block Apple shuttle

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New York Times:

White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved late Friday to prevent a judge in California from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs authorized during the Bush administration …

More: IC ON THE RECORD, Associated Press, NPR and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tweets: @attackerman, @normative, @trevortimm, @trevortimm and @attackerman

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.

Nathaniel Popper / DealBook:

Inside the race for Bitcoin mining capacity, which increased by about 30,000 percent in 2013 — Into the Bitcoin Mines — On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin. — To get there, you pass through a fortified gate and enter a featureless yellow building.

Tweets: @cdixon, @gabriel_o, @kevinrose, @sacca and @fromedome

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 …

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

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 and ReadWrite. Tweets: @caseynewton

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

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: The Raw Story, PC Magazine, Ethan Heilman, Graham Cluley and Guardian

Tweets: @kimdotcom and @ggreenwald

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