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MyPermissions, a site that offers a handy dashboard of all the apps that are burrowing into your social media accounts, expanded the features it offers on Tuesday to alert users when an app asks for data from Gmail, Google Calendar and a suite of other Google(s goog) services.

The Google alert feature comes in addition to existing ones for Facebook(s fb) and Twitter and, for practical purposes, means that users receive a pop-up notification via their browser or mobile device if a new app tries to access information from their Google account:

The ability to monitor apps’ ties to social media accounts is important because today most people rely on those accounts as a proxy permission service — the app uses it to gain access to a persons’ contacts and often much more. And, with so many apps out there, many people lose track of which apps have access…

Here is a great app just dropped in the Store for the young and young-at-hearts. Ever wonder how those handy people fold those Origamis? Look no further. Download this free App and learn by clicking on the picture

Intel missed the boat on mobile, and it may be facing a fight from ARM-based chips in the data center, but the chip giant isn’t going to sit back and lick its wounds. It is actively reaching out to the burgeoning maker and connected device crowd with development boards, it launched a new chip designed for the internet of things and it purchased an API management company. It is also going after a less sexy but still large market that seems ripe for some x86 chips — telecommunications.

Intel wants its chips inside the switches, routers and base stations that are the workhorses of the telecommunications network, even if it means making some sacrifices. To meet telecom’s requirements it will have to partner with another chip firm to get the right kind of processing power for base stations and change its focus from integrating everything into one…

No matter what you call the successor to the HTC One – the HTC M8, the HTC Two, or maybe even the HTC One 2 – it looks like it could arrive early next year. That’s according to a court filing published today, which states the new phone might appear “as early as February 2014.”

The filing was published as part of Nokia’s(s nok) sales injunction on the HTC One and One Mini due to patent infringement. The document reads:

HTC is close to launching the successor flagship model to the HTC One. HTC has not revealed the launch date. Nokia has adduced evidence which suggests that the launch date is in the first quarter of 2014 and possibly as early as February 2014. HTC has not contradicted this.

February 2014 will mark nearly a year since the HTC One first went on sale, so that sounds about right…

O ex-técnico de inteligência Edward Snowden vazou até 200 mil documentos sigilosos dos Estados Unidos à imprensa, segundo uma declaração feita no mês passado pelo chefe da Agência de Segurança Nacional (NSA), mas que passou quase despercebida na época.

Respondendo a perguntas após discurso a uma organização de política externa de Baltimore, em 31 de outubro, o general Keith Alexander, diretor da NSA, foi questionado sobre que medidas as autoridades dos EUA estavam adotando para impedir Snowden de vazar mais informações a jornalistas.

“Eu gostaria que houvesse uma forma de impedir. Snowden partilhou algo entre 50 (mil) e 200 mil documentos a jornalistas. Eles vão continuar a sair”, disse Alexander.

Ele acrescentou que os documentos estavam “sendo liberados de forma a causar o máximo de danos à NSA e à nossa nação”, segundo transcrição da palestra disponibilizada pela agência de espionagem.

Autoridades dos EUA informadas sobre as atividades de Snowden…

While researching Henry Roth, author of Call It Sleep, I found his obituary as it appeared in The New York Times on October 15, 1995.

One of the more curious aspects of Roth’s career, as described in the obituary, was his absence from the literary world for nearly 40 years. He wrote Call It Sleep in 1934, when he was 28 years old. The book was well-received but only sold 4,000 copies and it soon went out of print.

Roth wrote 75 pages of another novel, but eventually succumbed to “writer’s block” and never finished it. He wouldn’t write another novel until the 1970s. As The New York Times puts it: