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Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK:

The Ranking Digital Rights project launches to evaluate how Internet companies and telcos handle personal data of users — World's top Internet companies and telcos rated on protection of users' digital rights — Enlarge / The 2015 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.

More: Guardian, Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, Boing Boing, SC Magazine, Ranking Digital Rights, Common Dreams and Fortune

Kevin Tofel / ZDNet:

Merged wireless charging groups A4WP and PMA rebrand as AirFuel Alliance — The rebranding will help reduce confusion among consumers but we still don't have one wireless charging standard to rule them all. — Following their announcement earlier this year to merge, the Alliance For Wireless Power …

More: AirFuel Alliance, Android Police, Gizmodo, The Verge and Android Authority

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

MPAA claims responsibility for shutting down popcorntime.io and torrent site YTS — MPAA Touts Big Legal Success Against Popcorn Time — The studios trade association has scored injunctions in Canada and New Zealand over PopcornTime.io and the torrent outfit YTS.

More: Engadget, TorrentFreak, Variety, TorrentFreak, Forbes, Boing Boing, The Next Web, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Globe and Mail and The Verge

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

Prop. F: Voters reject measure to restrict Airbnb rentals — San Francisco voters were poised Tuesday night to hand a decisive victory to Airbnb and city residents who want to turn their homes into vacation rentals. Proposition F, a measure to curb short-term rentals drastically …

More: BuzzFeed, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Re/code, The Verge, Business Insider, USA Today and SFist

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BBC:

Proposed new UK surveillance bill requires ISPs to store which sites users visit for a year — May unveils plan to store net browsing — Internet firms will have to store data on what people access online for a year, under new surveillance law plans. — At the same time …

More: Guardian, The Next Web, Business Insider, BBC, Al Jazeera English and Mashable. Tweets: @dgwbirch

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Firefox 42 arrives with tracking protection for private browsing mode, tab audio indicators, and background link opening on Android — Firefox 42 arrives with tracking protection, tab audio indicators, and background link opening on Android — Mozilla today launched Firefox 42 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:

Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues — Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving …

More: Medium, BuzzFeed, Re/code, Wired.co.uk, Wired, USA Today, Guardian and International Business Times. Tweets: @jjmccorvey

Cam Bunton / 9to5Google:

ASUS ZenFone 2 Laser: $199 gets you 3GB RAM, octa-core chip, 13MP laser autofocus, more — ASUS' assault on the mid-range market looks set to continue as the company recently announced the ASUS ZenFone 2 Laser for the US market. It's a slightly cheaper and less powerful version of the ZenFone 2 …

More: ASUS, ZDNet, GSMArena.com, Android Police, PhoneArena, Phandroid, MobileSyrup.com, Tom's Guide, Android Central, Droid Life, SlashGear and Tech Times

Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal:

Apple and GT Advanced reach new settlement on remaining debt of $439M — Apple and Sapphire Supplier Reach New Accord on $439 Million Loan — Deal calls for Nov. 23 auction of equipment and awaits bankruptcy judge's approval — GT Advanced Technologies Inc. has reached an accord …

More: Pocketnow, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and Engadget

Lucian Constantin / Computerworld:

Google researchers examine Galaxy S6 Edge and show OEMs add risky code as they find 11 vulnerabilities introduced by Samsung — Google researchers poke holes in Galaxy S6 Edge, show OEMs add risky code — Google's security researchers hunted for bugs in Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge phone …

More: BBC, Gizmodo, The Verge, Project Zero, TechEye, The Register, SecurityWeek, Ubergizmo, Security Affairs, Forbes, AppleInsider, eWeek and Android Authority

Elle Hunt / Guardian:

Australian model edits captions on her old Instagram posts, transforming her popular account into a screed against the inauthenticity of social media — Essena O'Neill quits Instagram claiming social media ‘is not real life’ — Australian teenager with more than 612,000 Instagram followers …

More: New York Times, VentureBeat, The Independent, Metro.co.uk, NEWS.com.au, Tech Insider, The Independent, CBS News, ELLE, Toronto Sun, BuzzFeed, Yahoo, Forbes, CNN, Sydney Morning Herald, 9news.com.au, Australia, Telegraph, CNET, Guardian, Daily Mail, Essena O'Neill, BBC, Fusion and TheJournal.ie. Tweets: @stgramophone

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Pinterest rolls out buyable Pins on Android and launches dedicated shopping section — Pinterest launches dedicated shopping section — Pinterest started adding a buy button to pins back in June, and today those buyable pins are becoming even easier to shop.

More: PYMNTS.com, Pinterest Blog, Fone Arena, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, VatorNews, Marketing Land, Engadget, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Akarshan Kumar / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter and Vine rebrand favorites as likes, replace star icon with heart — Hearts on Twitter — We hope you like what you see on Twitter and Vine today: hearts! — We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we'll be calling them likes.

More: Guardian, the Econsultancy blog, VentureBeat, Tech Insider, Fone Arena, bgr.in, Social, SiliconANGLE, CBS San Francisco, Tech Times, The Next Web, Fusion, Mashable, AndroidGuys, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, SFist, New York Magazine, Daring Fireball, Canadianreviewer.com, TechCrunch, The Verge, Pocket-lint, PCWorld, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Fortune, App Advice, Globe and Mail, NPR, The Twitter Blog, NEWS.com.au, Windows Central, Wired, Adweek, Pocketnow, Deadspin, Breitbart, CNET, Refinery29, SiliconBeat, Bloggers Blog, Digital Savant, The Loop, TechSpot, CNNMoney, USA Today, PC Magazine, Co.Design, Yahoo Tech, iPhone in Canada Blog, POPSUGAR, International Business Times, New York Times, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, Reuters, Telegraph, iDownloadBlog.com, Geek.com, Android Police, MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews, Marketing Land, Droid Life, Digital Trends, Android Beat, iPhone Hacks, The New York Observer, WMPoweruser, Daily Mail, Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, Marketing Week, ABC News, PhoneDog.com, Tech Insider and MacRumors

Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:

In replacing favorites with hearts, Twitter alters use cases familiar to power users in hopes of appealing to a broader audience

More: Wired, Guardian, Fortune, The Next Web, Social Media Today, Tech Insider, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, WebProNews and Windows Central

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