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Government crackdowns, surveillance could destroy the open web, Pew says

The next decade will be a difficult one for the Internet at large, according to experts canvassed by the Pew Research Center and Elon University.

HTC’s Q2 earnings rebounds on flagship phone

India’s Bombay Stock Exchange halts trading after network problem

EU court orders more transparency over US-EU terrorist finance tracking program

IBM to present the incredible shrinking supercomputer

Google makes way for wearables with Play Services update

Hardcoded SSH key gives backdoor access to Cisco communications manager

Salesforce.com continues focus on mobility with new reports, dashboards

Brazil’s losses from ‘boletos’ malware may top $3.75 billion

No-IP regains control of some domains wrested by Microsoft

MMS: Back to the Basics?

Minnesota System Center User Group schedules the Midwest Management Summit

Mobile devices to beam 4K video direct to TVs with Qualcomm buy

Many employees won’t mingle with enterprise social software

Lights out for Yahoo’s Shine site, Xobni email apps, other products

Breaches exposed 1 in 7 US debit cards in 2013

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase tries to quell security concerns with ‘vault’ service

Federal/state wiretap use grows, encryption makes impact

Authorized communications intercept applications have increased 100% from 1,789 in 2003 to 3,576 in 2013.

Facebook introduces ‘missed call’ advertising for cost-conscious Indians

Sparc and Windows get more love in Oracle VM update

US privacy board defends conclusion that foreign surveillance is legal

ARM to ship mini-computer for writing 64-bit Android L apps

How-to: Get started with Docker

Critical vulnerability in popular WordPress newsletter plug-in endangers many blogs

VMware opens up testing of next-gen vSphere to anyone

Tech breakthroughs may mean ‘digital everything’ by 2025

Ideas for defending against cyberespionage

Experts weigh in on how companies can fend off cyberespionage attacks like those used by a recently discovered group of Russian hackers

Microsoft Promises Frequent Office 365 Roadmap Updates

World Cup star Luminoso scores $6.5M to fund expansion of text analytics business

MIT Media Lab spinoff rolling amidst buzzy World Cup partnership with Sony

ISPs sue UK spooks over network spying

China’s Xiaomi reports booming smartphone sales

OpenSSL Project publishes roadmap to counter criticism

US privacy board finds no illegitimate activity in overseas surveillance program

Microsoft legal action cramping other hacking campaigns, Kaspersky says

Microsoft admits technical error in IP takeover, but No-IP still down

EFF sues the NSA to disclose use of software security flaws

FBI, CIA can query US communications collected by NSA

Oracle selling $10 billion in bonds, giving hint to buying spree

FTC: T-Mobile made hundreds of millions from unwanted SMS features

Apple patches iOS, OS X and Safari on Mega Monday

Israeli security startup firm Hexadite automates cyber incident response

Dropbox for Business folders can now be shared in read-only mode

Netflix open sources its Amazon cloud security enforcer

Security Monkey keeps Netflix’s cloud safe, and can do the same for yours.

Ericsson hits 5Gbps in 5G labs demo

Microsoft boosts anti-snooping protection in Outlook.com, OneDrive

How to recover after a cloud computing misstep

Europe investing €5 billion to boost electronics sector

Spec showdown: HTC One mini 2 vs. Samsung Galaxy S5 mini

Samsung’s S5 mini: Slimmer and slower than S5, but still scans fingerprints

Microsoft’s takedown of No-IP pushes innocents into the crossfire

Four million domains have been shutdown, despite the fact that Microsoft only wants 18,472 of them

Twitter to acquire mobile advertising company TapCommerce