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United States of Secrets — How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? — In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret …
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Currency, Boing Boing, Guardian, PBS, The Verge, Los Angeles Times and New York Times
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Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004 — It was about a year ago that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden got two journalists into a Hong Kong hotel room, where he divulged some of the biggest US state secrets in modern history.
Tweets: @saharhghazi
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
| 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 … | Mark Chandler / Cisco Blog: |
Cisco general counsel: US Government has overreached, and should not interfere with the lawful delivery of our products — Internet Security Necessary for Global Technology Economy — Today's security challenges are real and significant. We want governments to detect and disrupt terrorist networks …
Tweets: @csoghoian, @padmasree, @arrington and @om
| Larry Page / Google: |
2013 Founders' Letter — Sergey and I started Google because we wanted “to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible” (Founders' IPO Letter, 2004). We've stayed true to that mission, placing long-term bets on new technologies that users truly love …
| 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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The Verge, ABC, dissenter.firedoglake.com and Daily Dot
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IC ON THE RECORD, Engadget, emptywheel and Techdirt
Tweets: @matt_cagle, @patrickctoomey and @kgosztola
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
HTC's One Mini 2 is an awkwardly named, cut-down version of the excellent One M8 — There's a lot riding on today's announcement. A smaller, cheaper, perhaps more mainstream version of the lovely (but long) HTC One M8 could be a good thing not only for phone buyers, but also for HTC itself …
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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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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple's Beats Deal May Not Be Finalized Until Next Week — More time for people to speculate about what it all means: Apple's planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction.
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Geeky Gadgets, Cult of Mac, App Advice, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog
| 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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SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Techdirt, PC Pro, PC World, Electronista, Free Software Foundation, Neowin, PandoDaily, gHacks Technology News, VentureBeat and Boing Boing
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
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| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
Warner, Universal, Sony Buy Stakes in Music App Shazam — Shazam Entertainment, the music-identification app, landed small investments from the world's biggest record companies, according to people familiar with the matter. — Warner Music Group owner Access Industries … | 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 … | 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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Guardian, Gizmodo UK, AppleTell, MacRumors, TIME, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Apple Bitch, Gigaom, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, I4U News, VentureBeat, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, iMore, Geeky Gadgets, DailyTech, Pocketnow, Neowin, Los Angeles Times, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Electronista, SlashGear, Softpedia News, BGR, VentureBreak and iLounge
Tweets: @stevesi and @markgurman
| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
OpenDNS raises $35M for its security and content-filtering servers — How can big data and smart analytics ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. There are less than 50 tickets left!
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| 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, Kotaku, I4U News, The Next Web, The Register, VG247, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, NEWS.com.au, The Droid Guy, IntoMobile, Touch Arcade, TUAW, Business Insider, Android and Me, iMore, Engadget and CNET News. Tweets: @kelly_evans
| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
AT&T's GigaPower plans cost double the advertised rate if you include TV and retain privacy — AT&T's GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose — If you sign up for AT&T's GigaPower fiber-to-the-home internet service in Austin, Texas, you can expect to pay … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations — A day after Google announced that it will sell Google Glass to anyone in the United States, the company is unveiling some new “Glassware” (basically, Google Glass apps) that's supposed to be particularly useful for travelers.
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Google Glass, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web and 9to5Google
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Research project Cider brings iOS apps to Android devices — Six PhD students at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science have developed Cider, an OS compatibility architecture capable of running iOS apps on Android. Rather than using a strict virtual machine …
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NEWS.com.au, 9to5Mac, Engadget, BGR, AppleTell, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, The Droid Guy, I4U News, iLounge, iMore and App Advice. Tweets: @elanazak
| 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, Gawker and KTVU-TV
Tweets: @darwinbondgraha, @darthwhitey2010, @markpritchard, @ellenhuet and @sfgate
| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Revealed: serious flaws in myGov site exposed millions of Australians' private information — A federal government department has been blasted over its “appalling response” to a security researcher's report which found it has been exposing millions of Australians' personal information … Sponsor Posts
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