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June 6, 2013, 8:20 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 Verizon 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 …
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Focus, criticism shifts to Amazon in Apple e-book trial  —  The online retailing giant is accused of being a bully by two publishing company CEOs who testified during the trial.  —  NEW YORK — Amazon acted like a bully and threatened the publishers when discussing a new e-book sales structure …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft goes public with Windows 8.1 upgrade policies  —  Summary: Microsoft is sharing more on how existing Windows 8 and Windows RT users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ preview and final.  —  With the public preview builds of Windows 8.1 due out later this month …
Roger Cheng / CNET:
BlackBerry's next flagship phone: the all-touchscreen A10  —  Sprint has already committed to selling the A10, which is the successor to the Z10, in November, CNET has learned.  —  BlackBerry's next flagship smartphone, the all-touchscreen BlackBerry A10, will launch during the holidays, CNET has learned.
Agam Shah / PC World:
AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS  —  After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tablets.  —  AMD is expanding OS options as it designs chips based on x86 …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Signs Its Second Big Ad Deal, This Time with WPP  —  In April, Twitter linked up with ad giant Starcom in a deal worth “hundreds of millions” over a few years.  Now it has another one, with Starcom's rival WPP.  —  WPP's press release doesn't mention a dollar value …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AT&T Discusses Entering Into a Joint Bid for Hulu With Chernin Group  —  According to sources close to the telecommunications giant, AT&T is in discussions with the Chernin Group about mounting a joint bid to acquire the Hulu premium video site.  —  It makes sense — in addition to its core phone business …
Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:
56% of American adults are now smartphone owners  —  Findings  —  56% of American adults are now smartphone owners  —  For the first time since the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project began systematically tracking smartphone adoption, a majority of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind.
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google's YouTube Triples Mobile Sales Amid Wireless Shift  —  Google Scores YouTube Mobile Ad Sales Jackpot  —  Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube has tripled advertising sales on mobile devices in the past six months, the company said, contributing as much as an estimated $350 million to revenue at the video-sharing website.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Home Improvement And Repair Marketplace Porch Raises $6.3M From SV Angel, Jeff Skoll And Others  —  Porch, a soon to be launched home improvement and repair marketplace, has raised $6.25 million is funding from SV Angel, Chamath Palihapitiya, Javier Olivan, Jeff Skoll, Bill Lee, Geoff Entress, Charles Moldow, and others.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google makes its stock Google Keyboard gesture-typing app available on the Play store  —  Google today released its Google Keyboard app for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above.  You can download it now directly from Google Play, although it's only available …
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
Ayla launches with $5.4M to turn everything into a connected device  —  A world where humans interact with machines that respond to our every need may seem fantastical, but Ayla Networks launched today to make this sci-fi vision a reality.  —  Ayla's mission is to build an ecosystem for the Internet of Things.
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
China surpassing U.S. with 54.9 petaflop supercomputer  —  Intel-based system has China poised to take the global lead in Top500 supercomputing list this month  —  China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S. …

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