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September 14, 2014, 8:35 PM

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Spiegel Online:

Seeking to map the entire internet, NSA and GHCQ have broken into Deutsche Telekom's networks — The NSA Breach of Telekom and Other German Firms — According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire Internet, including end-user devices.

More: The Intercept, Reuters, VentureBreak, The Register, The Verge and VentureBeat

Bill Rigby / Reuters:

Source: Microsoft will announce $2.5B deal to buy Minecraft maker Mojang on Monday — Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions — (Reuters) - Microsoft's impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z — Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we're hearing.

More: Medium. Tweets: @startupljackson and @joshconstine

Roger Cheng / CNET:

T-Mobile CEO says Sprint is “not the enemy”, applauds new CEO's efforts to “stop the bleeding” — T-Mobile CEO on Sprint: 'Put a fork in it. They're done' — In an interview, outspoken John Legere talks about the suddenly lively Sprint as a competitor …

More: GeekWire

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

NSA employees increasingly leave the agency to start security companies like Synack, Virtru, and Morta Security — The NSA Gives Birth To Start-Ups — Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has been sweating it out in the spotlight this summer for converting his spy cred into a lucrative …

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

Steve Jobs and several other tech execs have imposed time limits on their kids' use of gadgets — Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent — When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong.

More: Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, ITProPortal and Bijan Sabet

Tweets: @rlux, @zeynep, @glennf and @nickbilton

Mat Honan / Wired:

A requiem for the click wheel iPod, discontinued after almost 13 years — On Death and iPods: A Requiem — Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss.

More: Vox, CNET, Washington Post, ParisLemon, iMore, ZDNet, The Verge and Mashable

Tweets: @tfadell, @monteiro, @seanludwig and @tcarmody

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