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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant — Servers, routers get “beacons” implanted at secret locations by NSA's TAO team. — A document included in the trove of National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide details … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Greenwald expands on NSA reporting with new book ‘No Place to Hide’ and 50+ new documents — Glenn Greenwald's Pulse-Pounding Tale of Breaking the Snowden Leaks — In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 6 with larger, sharper 1704 x 960 resolution screen in testing — Apple is preparing to release a new iPhone with a larger screen later this year, and while multiple reports have indicated that the screen will be larger, the exact dimensions of the screen and its resolution have so far been guesswork.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast plans data caps for all customers in 5 years, could be 500GB — A Comcast executive said he expects the company will roll out “usage-based billing”—what most people call “data caps”—to all of its customers within five years. — Speaking with investors today (transcript) …
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| Cory Doctorow / Guardian: |
Firefox's adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart — I understand the pressure to support commercial video - but the browser makers can do more to defend free and open software — Future versions of the open-source Firefox browser will include closed-source digital rights management …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, PC World, Techdirt, Neowin, Electronista, PandoDaily, Free Software Foundation, VentureBeat and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @lmorchard and @brendaneich
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla reluctantly bows to industry pressure, adopts DRM tech required to watch Netflix video — Mozilla holds its nose and supports DRM video in Firefox — The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web.
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The Mozilla Blog, Mozilla Hacks, The Register, TechCrunch and Engadget. Tweets: @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
| Brandon Bailey / Mercury News: |
Google promises to release minority hiring figures, as activists protest outside shareholder meeting — MOUNTAIN VIEW — Prodded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Google said Wednesday that it will reverse a long-held stance and reveal publicly how many minority workers are employed by the giant Internet company, in a report next month.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After You Post — Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you're at … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers - Sandvine — Here's a question that may be increasingly relevant for some of you: If you don't pay for cable, and you get all your video from the Internet instead, how much bandwidth do you eat up each month? — Quite a bit, it turns out.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Red Hat dismisses claim of OpenStack favoritism — Red Hat said it provides commercial support for its Linux distribution regardless of which version of OpenStack its customers are using, rejecting a report to the contrary from earlier Wednesday. — “To be clear, users are free …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Depending on its needs, Verizon flip-flops on how its infrastructure should be regulated — Game of phones: how Verizon is playing the FCC and its customers — Tomorrow, the FCC starts deciding the future of the internet. It's an emotional, controversial, drawn-out battle that has been building …
Tweets: @byersalex, @acedtect and @jank0
| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Acxiom snaps up LiveRamp and its data onboarding smarts for $310M — Acxiom is not some shiny Silicon Valley startup. In fact, it's over 40 years old. The company, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, also happens to be a pioneer in collecting data — and converting that data into big bucks …
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LiveRamp Blog, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, AdAge, AdExchanger, Acxiom, Forbes, ZDNet, AdExchanger and ECPM BLOG
| Adam Pash: |
Switching from iPhone to Android loses incoming iMessages, senders still get delivery receipt — iMessage purgatory — I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone …
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TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Droid Guy, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, TUAW, ReadWrite, Gigaom, iPhone in Canada Blog, PandoDaily, SlashGear, iLounge, MacNN and App Advice
Tweets: @dhh, @benbajarin, @brendan_gill and @adampash
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Autodesk Moves to Make Its Own 3-D Printer — Autodesk is known for programs that help people make things. Now the San Francisco company plans to make something itself-a 3-D printer and software to go with it, hoping to spur a hot market to move even faster.
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In The Fold, Gigaom, The Next Web, BBC, New York Times, Engadget, CNET News, ZDNet, SlashGear and Electronista
| Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Nextdoor CEO and former Epinions chief Nirav Tolia charged with felony hit-and-run after crash on US 101 that left a woman injured — Police-friendly tech CEO charged with hit-and-run — The CEO of Nextdoor, a social network designed to help neighbors connect with each other and police …
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Mercury News, nbcbayarea.com, StrictlyVC, KTVU-TV and Gawker
Tweets: @darwinbondgraha, @darthwhitey2010, @markpritchard, @sfgate and @ellenhuet
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Flappy Bird to Return to the App Store in August, Will Be Multiplayer and ‘Less Addictive’ — Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen today announced plans to return Flappy Bird to the App Store in August in a new interview with CNBC's Kelly Evans. According to Nguyen, the new version of Flappy Bird …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, NEWS.com.au, Kotaku, The Next Web, CNET News, TechnoBuffalo, iMore, TUAW, Engadget, VG247, Phandroid, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, IntoMobile, Touch Arcade and The Droid Guy. Tweets: @kelly_evans
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Pro 3 might join Microsoft's Surface mini unveiling next week — Microsoft is holding a Surface press event in New York City next week, but the company may have accidentally revealed one of the announcements. In a support article published yesterday, Microsoft says a fresh update for Windows 8.1 … | Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Square expects to start turning a profit in about a year, has secured $225M line of credit — Square's status? It's complicated — Exclusive: Internal documents show that the innovative payments company expects losses through mid-2015. But then it predicts a turnaround.
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Business Insider and Mashable. Tweets: @danprimack, @kylezink, @evelynrusli, @sequoia_capital, @mattlynley, @djtgallagher, @evelynrusli and @evelynrusli
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
U.S. revealed secret legal basis for NSA program to Sprint, documents show — Under threat of a court challenge, the Obama administration in 2010 revealed to Sprint the secret legal basis of a then-classified program that collected billions of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes …
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IC ON THE RECORD, Engadget, emptywheel and Techdirt
Tweets: @patrickctoomey, @matt_cagle and @kgosztola
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Al-Qaeda's new homebrew crypto apps may make US intel-gathering easier — NSA spying revelations led to development of three new encryption apps. — Terrorists loyal to al Qaeda and its offshoots are using new encryption software, most likely in response to revelations that the National Security Agency …
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Schneier on Security and Recorded Future
| FaryaabS / SamMobile: |
Hands-on with a test build of the Tizen operating system for the original Galaxy Gear — Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy Gear Tizen Preview — Earlier this year, there was speculation about Samsung launching new version of its Galaxy Gear along with the Samsung Galaxy S5 at the UNPACKED 2014 Episode 1 event in Barcelona, Spain.
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