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June 6, 2013, 12:10 AM

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily  —  Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama  —  • Read the court order in full here  —  The National Security Agency …
Guardian:
Verizon forced to hand over telephone data - full court ruling  —  The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order.  Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
MacBook Air refresh looks set for WWDC, potentially with faster Wi-Fi  —  Apple appears set to release new versions of its MacBook Air notebook computer at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to information provided by a source.  Earlier this week, we reported that Apple …
Chris Schneider / The Microsoft Office Blog:
John McDermott / AdAge:
Apple to Sell Audio Ads on iRadio, its Upcoming Streaming Music Service  —  New Ad Product Could Be Pricier Than Pandora, Thanks to Targeting Abilities  —  Now hear this: Apple will sell audio ads on its forthcoming streaming music service, already being dubbed “iRadio” by many.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
N3twork raises a $12M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to build an Internet based on your interests  —  Today N3twork announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round of funding, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and participated in by Floodgate, and Google Ventures.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Amazon brings back long dormant Kindle DX, says it's ‘excited’ to do so  —  Months after being apparently retired from Amazon's e-reader line, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX is back in stock.  Amazon has brought back the DX for $299, reflecting the price drop that was implemented late last year.
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
Need a quiet place to work?  Breather raises $1.5M to offer on-demand spaces, initially in NYC  —  The sharing economy has transformed our relationship to ownership and accessibility in a variety of categories.  In terms of transportation, car- and ride-sharing services like FlightCar …
Ron Miller / CITEworld:
Boxer solves inbox management across email services  —  Another day, another iOS email management app.  But this one is different because, unlike the ones that came before it, Boxer, which was released to the App Store today, doesn't just manage your Gmail.  It manages every major email tool including Exchange.
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Leaked Nokia EOS images fuel the rumor fire  —  Images surfaced today of what could be Nokia's next camera-driven flagship phone.  —  Not one, but two sources bubbled up photos on Wednesday of a Nokia Windows phone that could be the handset-maker's next flagship, after its freshly-announced Lumia 925.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Device From Israeli Start-Up Gives the Visually Impaired a Way to Read  —  JERUSALEM — Liat Negrin, an Israeli who has been visually impaired since childhood, walked into a grocery store here recently, picked up a can of vegetables and easily read its label using a simple and unobtrusive camera attached to her glasses.
More: PSFK, The Verge and WiredThanks:@hilzfuld
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Exclusive: Microsoft, FBI take aim at global cyber crime ring  —  (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the FBI, aided by authorities in more than 80 countries, have launched a major assault on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings, believed to have stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts over the past 18 months.

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