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Expect a season of new beginnings from Microsoft in 2014

The wave of product updates may be drawing to a close, but the very direction of Microsoft's technology is shifting this year

AppliedMicro offers first development kit with 64-bit ARM server chip

AppliedMicro's $5,000 MyX-Gene development board will ship to system makers, software partners before solo developers

Microsoft ‘compiler-as-a-service’ project emerging from secrecy

'Roslyn' under development since 2011, and recent Microsoft blog post hints rewrite of Visual Basic and C# compilers could preview soon

Hold onto your (red) hat: Fedora 20 is out

Latest version of Red Hat's edition of Linux has ARM support, JBoss and Ruby on Rails updates, and much more

SNOWDEN seeks asylum in Brazil — Judge: NSA violated Constitution — QUALCOMM ‘freaking out’ — GOOGLE poaches machine genius — Obama calls Digerati to office

Obama to meet tech leaders on HealthCare.gov site, surveillance

Meeting with execs from tech companies such as Apple, Google, and Yahoo follows waves of disclosures related to government surveillance

San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service

The outdoor network was built using donated equipment from Ruckus Wireless

DOJ defends NSA phone records program after judge’s ruling

Previous judges have found the collection program constitutional, unlike Monday's ruling

When a smartphone is not a smartphone, and a tablet is not a tablet

Like PCs, mobile devices have many types of use -- which don't necessarily map to market share stats

Judge pulls no punches in ruling against NSA program

The author of the U.S. Constitution would be 'aghast,' Judge Richard Leon writes