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Edward Snowden Used A Thumb Drive To Smuggle Thousands Of PRISM Files

The highly classified, confidential documents that revealed the NSA’s massive data-mining operation, PRISM, were leaked from the NSA’s facilities on none other than a simple, innocuous thumb drive. Any sort of portable digital device is understandably barred by the highly secretive branch of government, but whistleblower Edward Snowden somehow managed to download thousands of files — of which investigators claim to “know how many he downloaded and what server he took them from.”

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What We Still Don’t Know About PRISM

A lot remains uncertain about the number of users affected by the NSA PRISM surveillance program that is taking place, the extent to which companies are involved, and how the NSA handles this sensitive data. Here are some of the biggest unresolved questions.

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What Happened With The NBN This Week?

Turns out failing to meet roll-out targets that you promised to a major client like NBN Co is bad for business. Who knew?

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The New MySpace Has Officially Launched Because Some Celebrities Said So

$20 million. That’s reportedly how much MySpace spent on officially introducing the world to its new and beautiful site via this weird ad. The takeaway? New MySpace is here.

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Steve Jobs Died So Kanye West Could Be Awesome Said Kanye West

So Kanye West is a lunatic. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Kanye West says that he wants to be the Steve Jobs of everything, and Steve had to die in the same way that Biggie had to die so that Jay-Z could be Jay-Z. Um.

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You Won’t Believe How Many Keywords The NSA Is Tracking

There has been quite a storm about the US National Security Agency (NSA) tracking users recently. One of the journalists investigating the NSA, James Bamford, yesterday did a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything last night and revealed just how many crazy terms the agency is tracking. Brace yourself.

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Twitter Now Shows You All Your Tweet And Follower Stats

Originally limited to advertisers upon launching in 2011, Twitter Analytics has finally opened its stat-tracking doors to all users. Although without a formal announcement, there’s always the possibility that it’s all a glitch — in which case, get it while it’s hot/broken.

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The Top 10 Countries Who Request Data From Tech Companies

Spoiler alert: the country that requests the most data from tech companies is not Australia. It’s the US. Although we are number nine overall on the list and we did request a boatload of stuff from Twitter.

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Watch More Footage Of Police Raiding Kim Dotcom’s Mansion

A lot of footage of the raid on Kim Dotcom’s home already hit the internet a while ago, but now Kim Dotcom has put together a little package himself including unseen footage from his network of CCTV cameras around the mansion.

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Here’s What Liking Stuff On Facebook Really Looks Like

The Facebook Like and Share are so ingrained into our day-to-day internet lives that they’re more than just verbs, they’re almost instinctual. But what does an inherently digital, formless thing like a Like actually look like? Well, a lot like this, actually.

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