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August 16, 2015, 3:25 AM

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ProPublica:

NSA spying relies on AT&T's “extreme willingness to help” tap Internet communications, say newly-disclosed Snowden documents — NSA Spying Relies on AT&T's ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’

New York Times:

Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace — Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace — SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult …

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Nextbit, led by Android and HTC vets, will launch its Android smartphone on September 1 priced at $300-$400 — Google, HTC vets prep ‘friggin’ awesome' smartphone for Sept. 1 launch — Nextbit makes the bold claim that its smartphone will actually get better over time thanks to software tweaks.

Ron Lieber / New York Times:

Alleged sexual assault by Airbnb host highlights need for the company to improve safety policies — Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions — Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles's mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen.

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Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Google bans 8chan-hosted domains from search, displaying warning about child abuse content — 8chan-hosted content disappears from Google searches — Domain-specific searches contain warning about “suspected child abuse content.” — Google appears to have taken an unprecedented step …

More: The New York Observer and Medium

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Inside Pinterest's ambitious e-commerce platform: buyable pins, recommendations, and easier mobile shopping — The Inside Story Of How (And Why) Commerce Came To Pinterest — Inside the power move that could give today's biggest online businesses a run for their money. — Pinterest's Buyable Pins team.

Thanks:@kantrowitz

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla tests private browsing mode with tracking protection in pre-beta versions of Firefox — Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private In Firefox, Adds Tracking Protection — Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn't just keep no trace of your browsing habits …

More: Future Releases, BetaNews, Engadget, PCWorld, Liliputing, Geek.com, The Hill, SlashGear, Lifehacker Australia, Android Police, Ubergizmo and gHacks Technology News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Wildcard relaunches app to focus on presenting news from thousands of sources in card format — Wildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age — Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities done on mobile phones.

More: Subtraction.com + Feed, Medium, Digiday, The Next Web and Engadget. Tweets: @antderosa

Howard Mintz / Mercury News:

US Court of Appeals rejects Samsung's request for rehearing of patent case against Apple — Apple v. Samsung: court rejects Samsung's latest appeal — A federal appeals court Thursday refused to re-examine Samsung's appeal of a stinging 2012 jury verdict that found the tech giant violated Apple's iPhone patents.

Klint Finley / Wired:

Swiss researchers working to make two-factor authentication easier with Sound-Proof, which replaces numerical codes with digital signatures from ambient sound — The Noise Around You Could Strengthen Your Passwords — Last year after nude photos apparently stolen from various celebrities …

More: PC Magazine

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Yahoo's Audio-Free Video Messaging App Livetext Is Now Available Worldwide — If you were intrigued by Livetext, the audio-free video messaging app launched by Yahoo last month, but don't live in the U.S. or the handful of test markets where it was available, then we have news for you.

More: Yahoo, The Next Web, TechRadar.com, International Business Times, Android Police and VentureBeat

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Sources: Comcast will partner with publishers like Vox, Buzzfeed, others to launch Watchable, a major online video platform to rival Facebook and YouTube — Comcast is about to launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google — Comcast is preparing to launch …

More: Fortune, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Bloomberg Business, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, ResearchBuzz, SlashGear, Tubefilter, Multichannel News, The Verge, VentureBeat, Consumerist, The Next Web and Talking New Media

Tweets: @rurikbradbury and @mathewi

Thanks:@jamesliamcook. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Sources: Watchable to be available on the web for Comcast subscribers and and non-subscribers, in addition to set-top-boxes, Android, and iOS

More: TechHive. Tweets: @amir, @pkafka and @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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