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January 10, 2014, 4:10 PM

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Don Reisinger / CNET:

Yikes! Target's data breach now could affect 110M people — Target's data breach is a bit broader than once believed. — The major retailer on Friday announced that up to 70 million customers have had their personal information stolen as part of the company's payment card data breach.

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Target Data Breach Much Worse Than First Thought

More: Target Corporate, Examiner, Gotta Be Mobile and The Switch

Tweets: @delrey, @justin and @delrey

Paul Graham:

Female Founders — I was accused recently of believing things I don't believe about women as programmers and startup founders. So I thought I'd explain what I actually do believe. Some accused me of being sexist—of being biased against female founders. To anyone who knows Y Combinator that would seem a pretty implausible claim.

Tweets: @ashleymayer, @joshconstine, @samfbiddle, @jwherrman, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @mikeisaac, @joshuaforman, @nero and @ericries

Washington Post:

Obama administration to end contract with CGI Federal, company behind HealthCare.gov — The Obama administration has decided to jettison CGI Federal, the main IT contractor that was responsible for building the defect-ridden online health insurance marketplace and has been immersed in the work …

More: ZDNet, The Verge, Re/code, USA Today, ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @aaronwiener

The Wirecutter:

Tech we're looking forward to in 2014: a realist's guide to CES — The annual Consumer Electronics Show is all about showing off what's in the future of hardware and gadgetry. But although there are thousands of announcements and prototypes to sort through, most of what's announced at CES …

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @blam, @wirecutter, @dsilverman, @fxshaw, @ericaogg and @blam. Thanks:@ejacqui

Ted Johnson / Variety:

Supreme Court to Hear Aereo Case — The Supreme Court has granted review to broadcasters' challenge to the legality of startup Aereo, in a case that may not only determine the future of digital streaming of station signals but of network television itself. — Without comment …

More: Gigaom, The Verge, Bloomberg, Re/code, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, SCOTUSblog, New York Times and TwitLonger

Tweets: @pkafka, @pkafka, @pkafka, @oregonfilm, @huffposttech, @edmundlee, @xor and @brianstelter

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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

Obama Readies Revamp of NSA — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is leaning toward extending broad privacy protections to non-U.S. citizens and is seriously considering restructuring the National Security Agency program that collects phone-call data of nearly all Americans, officials familiar with the process said on Thursday.

More: PC Magazine, The Switch, Mashable, US News, The Huffington Post, Reuters, New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Associated Press and VentureBeat

Tweets: @gorman_siobhan, @geraldfseib, @allahpundit and @daniele_manca

Justin Sink / TheHill:

Obama to unveil NSA reforms on Jan. 17

More: Washington Post, Associated Press, Washington Times, Politico, USA Today, Reason and WebProNews. Tweets: @thomas_drake1

Bill Flook / TechFlash:

Exclusive: LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy to step down — LivingSocial Inc. CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy told staff Friday he plans to step down as chief executive of the D.C.-based deals company. — O'Shaughnessy will remain CEO until his replacement can be found, which is expected …

More: LOCAL ONLINER, LivingSocial's Official Blog, GeekWire, Betabeat, CNET, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Switch, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, Re/code, WebProNews, Valleywag, Mashable and tech.co

Tweets: @delrey and @techflashwbj

Faryaab Sheikh / SamMobile:

Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Lite/Neo Pictures, Specifications and Benchmark results (Update) — You guys may have heard about Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 3 Lite and if you really have, then you probably know about its specifications too, courtesy of GSMArena.

More: Engadget, Phones Review, Phandroid, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo and AndroidGuys

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World … As technology shifts from personal computers to smartphones and tablets, Apple Inc. is expanding its reach into a lucrative customer base: companies. — The popularity of the iPhone and iPad among employees is prompting corporate tech managers …

More: PadGadget, iPhone, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista, bizjournals and iMore

Tweets: @asymco, @wsjd and @wsjeurope

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Apple Wins Appeal in Motorola's Smartphone Patent Case — Apple Inc. (AAPL) didn't infringe a patent owned by Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit over mobile-phone technology, a U.S. appeals court ruled today. — The ruling, posted on the website of the U.S. Court of Appeals …

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, VentureBeat, BGR, PhoneArena and Daring Fireball

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Facebook hit with lawsuit over “Like” ads - user says he never “Liked” USA Today — A Colorado man who claims Facebook falsely told his friends that he “Liked” USA Today has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $750 for himself and every other user who appeared in ads for products they never endorsed.

More: CNET, ReadWrite, AllFacebook, Search Engine Watch, Fast Company, SocialTimes, SlashGear and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

PlayStation Now will require a DualShock controller for TVs, tablets, and phones — PlayStation Now could be the future of gaming, but you're going to need a proprietary controller to play. Though Sony has announced that the streaming game service will come to tablets and smartphones …

More: Geek.com, Softpedia News, AndroidHeadlines.com, CNET and BGR

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Installed base is a more relevant measure than market share, as these graphs comparisons illustrate — Three graphs to stop smartphone fans fretting about ‘market share’ — Graphs of data for sales of iPhones, Android and Windows Phones in the US look very different from those of actual users

More: Fortune, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball and dailywireless.org

Tweets: @danudey and @richard_lord

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

It's Never Too Early To Say Goodbye — “You can't just quietly slip out the door,” I've been told by too many people I trust. So okay, fine, here's this post! — Since you asked, TechCrunch is in a really good place right now. — The various numbers we use to measure ourselves …

More: Silicon Valley Watcher, ParisLemon and Valleywag

Tweets: @owenthomas, @alexia, @willoremus, @mattlynley, @frankba, @gaberivera, @eldon, @samfbiddle, @jeff, @om, @leenarao, @joshelman, @johnolilly, @ryanlawler, @jasonkincaid, @spencerchen and @dannysullivan

Thanks:@mattsf. See also Mediagazer

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Matthew Panzarino replacing Eric Eldon as TechCrunch co-editor, Leena Rao becomes managing editor

More: StrictlyVC. Tweets: @alexia, @hunterwalk, @spencerchen, @alex, @dannysullivan, @eldon, @anthonyha and @gaberivera. See also Mediagazer

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