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Apple censors Lawrence Lessig’s discussion of iOS 7 Wi-Fi problems

Creative Commons founder, whose comments in Apple's official support forums were squashed, is not taking it lying down

Windows 8.1’s ‘Hero’ ads — brought to you by stealthy snooping

Microsoft unleashed a new iteration of its Hero ads but somehow forgot to mention that they work by secretly snooping on your desktop

Mobile saturation means innovation will slow

A smartphone in every pocket may soon be a reality. That will make it harder to fund further innovation

Update: NSA breaks into Yahoo, Google data center links

A tool known as Muscular lets the agency copy data flows across fiber-optic cables, The Washington Post reports

What’s on tap at the NSA? Google’s and Yahoo’s private fiber backbones

The NSA is eavesdropping on overseas data links for Google and Yahoo, and it's now swimming in your data. But to what end?

Enterprise software revenue growth suggests recovery under way, IDC says

Social networking applications drive applications revenue growth of 5.5 percent year over year

Reviews: IPAD Air vs. Lenovo YOGA — Lobbyist named FCC chair — INTEL fabs ARM — HADOOP for all — BITCOIN jackpot

Mozilla releases 10 patches, five critical, for Firefox

The issues also affect the Thunderbird email client and Seamonkey software suite

Lenovo claims battery life crown with new Yoga tablets

Lenovo claims its new Yoga tablets, with 8-inch and 10.1-inch screens, will have 18 hours of battery life when Web browsing

The chip times are a-changin’: Intel agrees to build ARM chips

And not just any ARM chip -- Intel will use its 14nm technology to build the most advanced Altera 64-bit quad-core ARM chip ever