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Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown — After making its debut during the WWDC 2013 Keynote, the reimagined, reformulated Mac Pro finally arrived at iFixit's doorstep. Join us as we turn the (very) Late 2013 Mac Pro inside-out. Step 1 — Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown The new Mac Pro has been released …
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The Mac Pro Review (Late 2013) — The year was 2004. I was enrolled in ECE 466 at NCSU, a compiler optimization/scheduling class. I remember walking into the lecture hall and seeing far too many white MacBooks. This was the computer engineering department right?| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors, Is Unaware Of Alleged DROPOUTJEEP Snooping Program — Apple has contacted TechCrunch with a statement about the DROPOUTJEEP NSA program that detailed a system by which the organization claimed it could snoop on iPhone users.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA's catalog of surveillance magic — A diagram of an NSA BIOS-based attack, brought to you by sneakernet. — The National Security Agency's sophisticated hacking operations go way beyond using software vulnerabilities to gain access to targeted systems.| Michael Dearing / AllThingsD: |
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Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher reflect on AllThingsD, tease new company launching January 2 — You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello — This is the last day of the All Things Digital site, which began life in April of 2007 as a year-round extension of the D conference we launched in 2003.
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Why I'm interested in Bitcoin — Some people assume that all Bitcoin advocates are motivated by a libertarian political agenda. That is certainly not my agenda. I'm a lifelong Democrat who supported Obama in the last two elections. I think the Federal Reserve plays an important function …
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Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors — Thanks to a series of high-profile exits and a generally frothy financing environment, it's not unusual to see startup founders spending money lavishly these days. But the story of Motionloft and its founder Jon Mills … | hueypriest / reddit: |
Reddit's 2013 stats: page views grow over 50% to 56B, with 41M posts — 2013 has come to a close and it's been another amazing year for the vast network of communities that is reddit. 2013 Overall reddit Stats (approximate) 56 billion pageviews 731 million Unique Visitors An Average Visit Duration …
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Pirate Bay Uploads Surge 50% in a Year, Despite Anti-Piracy Efforts — 2013 has been an eventful year for The Pirate Bay, to say the least. — The site celebrated its tenth anniversary, but with pressure from copyright holders mounting, it had to switch domain names no less than six times.
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn discuss future of Internet governance in light of Snowden revelations — Viewing Where the Internet Goes — Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in? — When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency contract employee … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
U.S. to China: We Hacked Your Internet Gear We Told You Not to Hack — The headline news is that the NSA has surreptitiously “burrowed its way into nearly all the security architecture” sold by the world's largest computer networking companies, including everyone from U.S. mainstays Cisco and Juniper to Chinese giant Huawei.
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IPO Prospect Coupons.com to Buy Yub for $30 Million — On the way toward a possible initial public offering, digital-coupon company Coupons.com has agreed to acquire Yub, according to a person familiar with the agreement. — Yub works with retailers to offer loyalty programs to lure shoppers into brick-and-mortar stores.Sponsor Posts
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