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Lee Fang / VICE:

Several key FCC staffers recently worked for ISPs who would benefit from net neutrality defeat — Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet — A tombstone for Internet freedom. Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey — The open Internet may soon become a thing of the past.

More: New Yorker, Digital Trends, Vox, Re/code, Boing Boing, GamePolitics blogs, hypebot, Network World, BuzzFeed and TheHill

Tweets: @kwerb, @jbrodkin and @lhfang

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Barbara van Schewick / Center for Internet and Society:

The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care. — Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with anger and confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, “[r]egulators are proposing new rules …

More: The Atlantic Online and Marvin Ammori. Tweets: @camholm and @rsingel. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Singel / Medium:

How The FCC Plans to Save the Internet by Destroying It: An Explainer

More: Gigaom, Hit & Run, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, WP Engine, PC World, InfoWorld and Esquire. Tweets: @ddayen

Benedict Evans:

Why iPad plateaued: tablets are eroding the PC market, but the smartphone is the transformative new category — iPads and tablet growth — Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around …

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Tweets: @niallharbison, @benedictevans, @dkthomp, @bertmmi, @stevesi, @rjs, @borthwick, @nathanborror, @pefnam and @rwd

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback — One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google's project managers. All of them. — It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision.

More: Business Insider, Business Insider and BGR

Tweets: @swaaanson, @valaafshar, @trailsfootmarks, @daddy_san, @mattrosoff and @nichcarlson

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Comixology removes in-app purchases to avoid paying fees to Apple — It's about to get a bit more difficult to buy comic books from a mobile device. Comixology is replacing its iOS app today with a new version that removes the ability to purchase comics. The new app is solely a comic book reader …

More: comiXology Unbound, MacRumors, Bleeding Cool Comic Book …, The Next Web, App Advice, MacNN, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, TechHive, TechnoBuffalo and Engadget

Tweets: @reneritchie and @marcoarment

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

RadiumOne's All-Male Board Is Now Deciding Whether (or Not) to Dump CEO Over Domestic Violence Conviction — According to numerous sources, the board of RadiumOne is deciding whether or not to remove CEO Gurbaskh Chahal from his job, after he was convicted of two misdemeanors for domestic violence and battery in a San Francisco court.

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, thedrum.com, AdAge, Business Insider and Fortune

Tweets: @danprimack and @fmanjoo

Ron Nixon / New York Times:

US built Twitter-like services for Cuba, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens more countries — U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics — WASHINGTON — The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba …

More: The Eastern Tribune. Tweets: @katrinanation, @digiphile and @nytimesbits

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Amplify helps Twitter grab a piece of the multi-billion dollar TV ad market — Twitter Wants to Be Your TV — Profitability doesn't appear to be in Twitter's (TWTR) future anytime soon. Losses are increasing, membership growth has slowed, and the company's stock price is down 28 percent since …

Tweets: @socialtvtrends. See also Mediagazer

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:

Airbnb starts recommending nearby destinations to SF users, other cities coming soon — Airbnb Wants to Be a Travel Agent — Airbnb wants to be a travel agent. — People who opened the apartment-sharing company's mobile app in San Francisco on Thursday found something new …

More: VentureBeat and Skift

Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed:

How Steve Marquess and Stephen Henson became the overworked, underpaid stewards of OpenSSL, which is finally staffing up post-Heartbleed — The Internet Is Being Protected By Two Guys Named Steve — The Heartbleed bug put the spotlight on OpenSSL, the security toolkit used …

More: Heartbleed Bug, TechNewsWorld, Naked Security and SocialTimes

Tweets: @stokel, @buzzfeedben and @stokel

Thanks:@buzzfeedben

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Former Apple engineer recalls early iPhone development, which resembled a startup — An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story — When Francisco Tolmasky was just 20 years old and started working for Apple, he took on a challenging task: to create a rich mobile web browser …

More: Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, BGR and MobileSyrup.com

Tweets: @bxchen and @macgeekpro

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Inside DarkMarket, a prototype online black market that resists police seizure via decentralization — Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize — The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site's lucrative drug trade …

Tweets: @xor and @sarahjeong

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