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January 15, 2014, 5:40 AM

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New York Times:

NSA is using radio waves to monitor and alter data on computers not connected to the Internet — N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States …

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules, agency may appeal — An appeals court in Washington on Tuesday ruled that the FCC's “net neutrality” rules, which forbid prevent companies like Verizon from favoring some type of internet traffic over others, are invalid.

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Welcome To The Net Neutrality Nightmare Scenario

More: Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, AEIdeas, PandoDaily and Consumerist

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

How the FCC screwed up its chance to make ISP blocking illegal

More: TheHill, TechCrunch, The Verge and Washington Post

Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:

Verizon's Net Neutrality Victory Means More Fighting to Come

More: SlashGear, The Verge, The Mac Observer, Yahoo and ZDNet. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Facebook Could Launch Its Flipboard-Like News Reader This Month — After years of experimentation, cancellations and redesigns, Facebook looks like it is finally going to launch in the coming weeks a news reading service built for mobile devices. — The product is known as “Paper,” …

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Tweets: @pkafka, @rsarver and @caseynewton

Lorraine Luk / Digits:

Foxconn Ships Over 1 Million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile — Apple's major iPhone assembler Foxconn has shipped about 1.4 million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile last week, according to a person familiar with the matter, ahead of the mobile giant's launch this Friday.

More: Re/code, Guardian, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, AppleTell, PadGadget, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, Tech Trader Daily and Examiner

AppleInsider:

Apple's Cook ‘incredibly optimistic’ as China Mobile iPhone orders in multi-millions

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Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel shelves cutting-edge Arizona chip factory — (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O), hit by slumping personal computer sales, has put off opening a major chip factory that President Barack Obama once held up as an example of U.S. manufacturing potential. — The “Fab 42” facility built in Chandler …

More: Arizona Republic, Computerworld, Digits, Bloomberg, Oregonian, CNET, Associated Press and Electronista

Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Why Techmeme's calendar is now listing even more events — Nearly two years ago, Techmeme began listing technology events, both on its front page, which showed events expected to result in news on Techmeme, and a dedicated events page which showed the same list, but projected several more months into the future.

Tweets: @roi, @mikebutcher, @gaberivera and @eldon

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Chrome 32 launches with noisy tab indicators, new Windows 8 look, better malware blocking, and supervised users — Google today released Chrome version 32 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes tab indicators, a new look for Windows 8 Metro mode, and automatic blocking of malware downloads.

More: Google Chrome Blog, The Register, BetaNews, Engadget, Gizmodo UK, AndroidHeadlines.com, Pureinfotech Newsletter, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Android Central, Softpedia News and TechCrunch

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Patent stunner: Under attack, nation's most notorious “troll” sues federal gov't — Texas lawyer Jay Mac Rust, pictured here in 2006, has been revealed as the owner of MPHJ Technology Investments. — Super Lawyers — MPHJ Technology Investments quickly became one of the best-known …

More: Wall Street Journal, ag.ny.gov, Gigaom, Reuters, Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, SlashGear, Inc.com, VentureBeat, PC World, Electronic Frontier Foundation and bizjournals

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Thousands Of Hotel Listings Were Hijacked In Google+ Local — Thousands of hotels listed within Google+ Local appear to have had links leading to their official sites “hijacked” and replaced with ones leading to third-party booking services. Google+ Local listings are what Google depends …

More: Computerworld and Marketing Land. Tweets: @nytimesbits and @hunterwalk

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group- court — Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc, Google Inc and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after a federal appeals court refused …

More: App Advice and AppleInsider

BBC:

EU-funded RoboEarth project is a cloud-based system for robots to learn from each other — Robots test their own world wide web, dubbed RoboEarth — A world wide web for robots to learn from each other and share information is being shown off for the first time.

More: Telegraph, Engadget, Motherboard, Co.Labs, The Escapist and Times of India

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Horizon Shoots All Of Your Videos In Landscape, No Matter How You Hold Your Phone — Good news! You just shot what might be the world's funniest video ever. You're going to be a friggin' YouTube sensation. You're totally going to hang out with Ellen. — Bad news: you shot the video in portrait mode.

More: Gearburn, TUAW, SlashGear, The Next Web, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac and Evil Window Dog blog

Tweets: @horwitz and @markgurman

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Surveillance-court judges oppose White House group's NSA proposals — Current and former judges on the nation's secret surveillance court said in a letter released Tuesday that several recommendations made by a White House review group would significantly increase the court's workload and undermine its effectiveness.

More: ITworld.com, New York Times, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, TheHill, Guardian and CNET

Tweets: @declanm, @washingtonpost, @csoghoian and @ramez

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Coinye developers say they're abandoning project as Kanye West escalates legal battle — Kanye West has escalated his legal battle against Coinye, filing a trademark-infringement lawsuit against unnamed digital currency operators and 100 anonymous co-defendants, even as some people involved with the project appear to have abandoned it.

More: The Register, New York Post, StartupBook, NBCNews, Computerworld, MoneyBeat, Associated Press, NY Daily News and TMZ.com

Writankar Mukherjee / The Econonomic Times:

Apple to relaunch 8GB version of iPhone 4 in India as sales lag — KOLKATA: Apple is set to relaunch the 8GB version of the iPhone 4 in the Indian market after losing sales and market share in the middle segment to rival Samsung in the last quarter after pulling out the model as part of a global strategy.

More: ZDNet, The Register, Gearburn, Agence France Presse, PhoneArena, the rajam report, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, Business Insider, CNET, Quartz and Gigaom. Tweets: @nitishmurthy

Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:

Oyster, the service offering access to over 100,000 books for $10 a month, raises $14 million — Oyster, a Start-Up for E-Reading, Raises $14 Million — With Netflix soaring, investors are betting that a start-up based on the same business model — but for e-books — will succeed as well.

More: TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Capital New York. Tweets: @danprimack. See also Mediagazer

Liam Tung / ZDNet:

Twitter enforces SSL encryption for apps connecting to its API — Summary: Twitter closes the end-user privacy gap in third-party apps that connected to its API in plaintext. — Liam Tung — Developers whose apps are still using HTTP plaintext connections to connect to Twitter's API feeds …

More: ProgrammableWeb and Twitter Developers. Tweets: @twitterapi

Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Uber Cofounder Is Launching On Demand Healthcare for the 1% — Sources tell Valleywag that after housing and transportation, the latest slice of public infrastructure to get the VIP, front-of-the-line treatment is healthcare. We hear Oscar Salazar, an Uber cofounder* who helped design …

More: CNET. Tweets: @jmover

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