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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands — San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Justice Department tries to force Google to hand over user data — Secret lawsuit in Manhattan filed last month asks judge to force Google to cough up user data without a search warrant. A different court has already ruled that the process is unconstitutional.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
After Four Years, Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver to Depart — Ryan Sarver, Twitter's director of platform who worked closely with the company's partner ecosystem over the past four years, announced on Friday that he plans to leave the company. — “After four incredible … | Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Tumblr's Creative Director Quits — Jacob Bijani joined Tumblr as one of its original, most formative employees (and its first designer/product engineer) back in 2008—when a $1.1 billion Yahoo buyout was unfathomable. Now he's leaving. — According to a farewell post on Bijani's site …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches iPad comparison site for Windows 8 tablets — Microsoft is launching the second phase of its advertising against Apple's iPad this week. Following an iPad mini commercial parody, a new site aims to convince consumers that Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets are worth buying over the iPad.
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Windows Phone Central, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, The Next Web and Neowin
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Acer $400 ‘PC’ will run Android, pack Intel's Haswell chip — Acer is about to announce a PC that runs Android, showing that Windows and PC will not necessarily be synonymous in the coming months. — The Acer DA220HQL AIO will be priced just above $400 at most resellers.| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Rumor: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange — Is Apple planning to launch an ad exchange, the way Facebook and Twitter have done? — That's the rumor. — We heard it from an executive who is one of the biggest players in online advertising. — We can't confirm it.| Bloomberg: |
DirecTV Said Among 3 Hulu Bidders at $1 Billion or More — DirecTV (DTV), the second-biggest U.S. pay-TV service, and two other bidders are each offering at least $1 billion for Hulu LLC, the online video website, said people with knowledge of the bid. — The other two couldn't be identified immediately.| Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
Megaupload founder wins access to evidence seized in raid — (Reuters) - A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the Internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges.| Lex Friedman / Macworld: |
Camino browser project discontinued after ten years — Pour one out for Camino. The Mac-only browser, born a decade ago, is no longer under active development. — Camino was a free, open-source browser for the Mac, built on Mozilla's Gecko engine. Unlike other Mozilla-based browsers of its era …
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Ars Technica, CNET, caminobrowser.org, internetnews.com, Cult of Mac, Macgasm and MacRumors
| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Every '90s Tween's Favorite Angst Outlet Xanga Will Shut Down Unless You Pony Up $60K — Xanga, one of the original online diary hubs for tweens too cool for Livejournal but not so cool that they didn't know to eschew blogging altogether, may soon shut down.
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TheXangaTeam's Xanga, Digital Trends, The Verge and Valleywag
| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Surface RT buyers in the U.S. now get a free cover — Starting Friday, May 31, consumers in the U.S. and Canada who buy a Surface RT tablet can score a free Touch or Type cover. — Microsoft is trying to drum up sales of its Surface RT tablet by kicking in a free cover.
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Surface Blog, Windows Phone Central, GigaOM, Digital Trends, The Register, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, BGR and PC World
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Asus will release a 4K 30.5-inch monitor in the US this June — Perfect for professionals, gamers, and people with too much money — 4K Ultra High-Definition TVs are already on their way to our living rooms, but Asus is planning on giving users the option to connect a next-gen monitor up to their laptops and desktops next month.| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims — BT has dumped Yahoo! as email provider to its six million broadband customers following months of customer complaints over hacking. — Marissa Mayer is battling to restore Yahoo!'s reputation for technological competence| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu Plus Upgrades Its Living Room Experience With A New Look, Search, Controls & Added Kids Section — Hulu may be courting bidders right now, but in the meantime, the company is shipping a new Hulu Plus experience for the living room, with updates hitting today.| Xbox Wire: |
The Beauty of Xbox One: A New Approach to Design — “Xbox has always had something to say. It's always been bold with a strong personality,” said Carl Ledbetter, Creative Director, Industrial Design. “Xbox One needs to serve our most loyal gaming fans and deliver unique entertainment experiences … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Twitter now lets you edit your profile inline, including drag and drop for header and background photos — Twitter today rolled out a revamp of its profile editing functionality: everything can now be done inline. This includes not only updating the information on your Twitter profile …
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Engadget, WebProNews and Pocket-lint
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Following Twitter and Evernote, LinkedIn beefs up security with optional two-step verification via SMS — LinkedIn today announced it has added optional two-step verification to its user accounts. The feature is another layer of security to protect against the increasing number of attacks …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, PC World, Marketing Land, TechHive, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, TechCrunch and Yahoo! News. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Oracle outlines steps to improve Java home, enterprise security — Summary: Following high-profile hacks and breaches at major technology companies, including Apple and Facebook, the Java maker is knuckling down on the Web plug-in's security. — Zack Whittaker
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