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June 8, 2014, 6:05 AM

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Interactive notifications in iOS 8 are a new interface frontier — Why Notifications Are About to Rule the Smartphone Interface — When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already …

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Federico Viticci / MacStories:

iOS 8 Extensions: Apple's Plan for a Powerful App Ecosystem — Amidst the variety of announcements from WWDC 2014, Extensibility — a new set of technologies for developers to extend their apps — has been mainly regarded as Apple's solution to the lack of inter-app communication on iOS.

More: Macworld, Marco.org, MacRumors and The Next Web. Tweets: @viticci

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Uber could be worth $18B if it greatly expands the size of the paid rides market — Why Uber just might be worth it at $18 billion — Uber, the pioneering taxi-hailing app and ride dispatch service, scored an impressive $18.2 billion valuation last week as it raised $1.2 billion in new venture capital.

Tweets: @ernmando, @greglinden and @danielmwolf

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Who are the investors making 2000X paper gains from Uber's first angel round? — Meet the Uber Rich — Uber's new round of financing values it at $17 billion. So these lucky ones who were in at the start have made 2,000x their initial outlay. The valuation of Uber is poised to hit …

More: Valleywag and Fortune. Tweets: @thestalwart and @chrisrcampbell

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: We're Doubling Revenue Every Six Months

More: Bloomberg, Forbes, PC Magazine, Re/code, The Next Web, GeekWire, San Francisco Chronicle, Gigaom, Uber Blog and Businessweek

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

With plenty of competition and little driver loyalty, Uber's valuation is a head scratcher

More: Guardian and Slate. Tweets: @rolfewinkler, @levie, @semil, @ktbenner, @ys, @martinsfp, @stevesilberman, @innonate, @sama and @davegirouard

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Patent troll VirnetX close to winning 0.98% royalty on Apple's iPhone and iPad sales in the US — Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue — In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung.

More: PR Newswire and SeekingAlpha.com. Tweets: @xor, @bowbrick, @sampullara and @smenor

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA — In January, the math community had its big event of the year — the Joint Mathematics Meeting — where 3,000 mathematicians and math students gathered to talk about new advances in the field and jostle for jobs.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @profkeithdevlin, @kenwsmith54 and @kashhill

New York Times:

How Google, Facebook, and other tech giants are now more actively impeding government spying — Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become …

More: Business Insider and TIME. Tweets: @paulszoldra, @csoghoian, @jpbarlow, @kenroth, @granick, @the_intercept and @ggreenwald

Lee Fang / VICE:

Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality — Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images — Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission continue …

More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Engadget, Electronista, DSLreports, Gizmodo and BGR

Tweets: @pogue, @lhfang and @dangillmor

Thanks:@themadhacker

Bruce Upbin / Forbes:

Flaw in millions of TVs lets researchers hijack digital broadcasts, inject malicious code — Red Button Flaw Exposes Major Vulnerability In Millions of Smart TVs — It's 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday in New York City. People in their apartments in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan …

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @forbestech and @kashhill. Thanks:@thealexknapp

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

After seizure of CryptoLocker botnet, new ransomware Cryptowall spreads through ad networks — We “will be paying no ransom,” vows town hit by Cryptowall ransom malware — The town manager of a hamlet in south eastern New Hampshire has defied demands that he pay a ransom …

More: Cisco Blog, New York Times, CBS Boston, Portsmouth Herald, Techie News, The Hacker News and Computerworld

Forbes:

Arista Networks cofounder and storied investor David Cheriton sues his former company over IP — Arista Networks Faces Lawsuit From A Billionaire Cofounder Who Is ‘Suing Himself’ — Arista Networks' initial public offering was supposed to be a triumph for a pair of old school technologists.

More: Business Insider. Thanks:@rmac18

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon — Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music? — People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent …

Tweets: @mdash and @vuze

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