New ways to support great content on YouTube  —  We've been building a YouTube partner program since 2007 that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity.  We've watched them build amazing channels that have made YouTube into a news, education and entertainment destination …

State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations  —  The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun.  —  On Thursday, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson received a letter from the State Department Office …

Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M  —  Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a social bookmarking service that had built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices, both companies said today.  —  The deal was worth between $10 million and $20 million …

Facebook quietly adds Facebook Home support (and unofficial support) for Galaxy S4, HTC One, others  —  New persistent notifications also part of undocumented update  —  Facebook today — facing increasing negative reaction to its Facebook Home launcher as AT&T (at least temporarily) …

Ahead of I/O, Google Wallet Drops Plans to Introduce a Physical Card  —  Google will update its Wallet product at its I/O developer conference next week, but will not include the physical credit card that the company had considered launching at the event, according to sources.

Many Air Passengers Never Turn Off Electronics, Survey Finds  —  Take a guess at how many people actually fail to turn off their gadgets during takeoff and landing of a flight.  Ten percent?  No, that's too low.  Twenty percent?  Still too low.  —  In a study released on Thursday …

Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen  —  New Gadgets, Including Audio-Only Device, Is Bid to Expand Beyond Kindle Fire.  — Amazon's hardware ambitions are broadening.  The Seattle e-commerce giant has recently been developing a wide-ranging lineup of gadgets—including two smartphones …

Microsoft: Don't expect a Windows 8 iTunes app soon  —  Microsoft believes nearly all major apps that can be found in Apple's iTunes store will also be available on Windows 8 by the fall, but it expects one glaring hole to remain.  —  “You shouldn't expect an iTunes app on Windows 8 any time soon …

ESPN Eyes Subsidizing Wireless-Data Plans  —  Smartphone users who binge on video, games and other content must monitor their usage to ensure they don't run over monthly data caps that wireless carriers have put in place in recent years.  —  Now, some media companies whose mobile content gets …

Google unveils 5-year roadmap for strong authentication  —  Summary: Smartphones and smart apps are major factor in access control strategy that plans to ignore whining from end-users  —  Google Wednesday unveiled a five-year road map for stronger consumer authentication tagging smartphones …

Apple wins trademark case over ‘iBooks’  —  A small New York publisher that uses the label “ibooks” has struck out in its lawsuit against Apple, after a New York court on Wednesday held that the publisher's mark was not distinct and that consumers would not confuse the two companies' products.

Icahn, Southeastern Propose Alternative to Dell Buyout  —  Two of Dell Inc.'s largest stockholders, investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc., proposed an alternative offer to a $24.4 billion deal to buy out the company's public stockholders.

International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability  —  The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International Space Station in association with NASA, has announced that the Windows XP computers aboard the ISS have been switched to Linux.

How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion  —  This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion.  In summary, they phished Onion employees' Google Apps accounts via 3 seperate methods.  —  The SEA began by sending phishing emails to various Onion employees beginning around May 3.

Can't raise a Series A?  Just sell yourself to Yahoo  —  While many have speculated on the ways CEO Marissa Mayer will remake Yahoo, none have correctly predicted what the company has actually become: A safe haven for VC rejects.  —  Since taking the helm in October, Mayer has snapped up nine young …

Twitter Verification?  No Thanks  —  A few months back, Mike Hayes, who's a senior reporter at BuzzFeed and who also runs the official BuzzFeed Twitter account, sent around an email to the office.  Twitter, he reported, was going to be verifying the whole staff at once.

Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform  —  The Library of Congress sparked a firestorm late last year when it issued new rules that made it effectively illegal to unlock a cell phone to switch to a new wireless carrier.  An online petition on the issue attracted …

Nokia Lumia 620 coming to America  —  Today we're happy to announce that the colorful and critically acclaimed Nokia Lumia 620 is finally coming to the US.  Available now on Aio Wireless, the Nokia Lumia 620 will bring a fully featured smartphone at a price that will be attractive to a whole new audience.

Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo  —  It's only been a few weeks since the folks behind music-charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn't done snapping up startups just yet.

Huawei, ZTE under probe by Indian government  —  Summary: Indian government will reportedly set up a testing lab in Bangalore to test equipment by the Chinese telecoms gear makers, following security concerns by its intelligence agencies.  —  Ellyne Phneah

How Facebook could save Nokia  —  On Tuesday, Nokia chief Stephen Elop fielded questions from irate shareholders at his company's annual meeting in Helsinki.  When, they wanted to know, would he do something about Apple and Samsung?  In London next week, Nokia will announce its new high-end flagship product, whatever it is.

Social Network Bebo Has Filed A Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition  —  Looks like Bebo, once an early star in social networking, is progressing to the next step in the long and messy struggle between majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners and minority shareholders …