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Apple's Commitment to Customer Privacy — Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data with government agencies, Apple issued a clear response: We first heard of the government's “Prism” program when news organizations asked us about it on June 6.
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3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so — In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. — When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple says it received 4,000-5,000 data requests from US officials in the last 6 months — Apple has spoken up about the US government's PRISM program and revealed that between December 2012 and May 2013 the firm received 4,000-5,000 requests for user data from the government .
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 — We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely.
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Samsung to launch faster Galaxy S4 smartphone — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday. — J.K. Shin, also co-chief executive …
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| Owen Good / Kotaku: |
Here's a Look at One of the iPhone's New Game Controllers — With Steve Jobs no longer around to tell us these things aren't elegant enough for his device, it appears we'll finally get a proper gamepad for the iOS this year. This will be one of them, made by Logitech.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates — With e-readers becoming more popular year after year, book piracy is seen as a growing problem for the publishing industry. — To counter this threat, publishers are constantly looking for new forms of DRM.
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GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits — Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009 — Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 … | David Barrett / Telegraph: |
Google builds new system to eradicate child porn images from the web — Google, the internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images - which it will share with its rival companies - in a bid to eradicate child pornography from the web. — Google engineers are working … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Chinese supercomputer tops the charts — two years early — Tianhe-2, with 3.1 million processor cores and a lot of Chinese-build technology, is the new leader of the twice-yearly list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. — The performance of the systems on the Top500 list continues to improve exponentially.| Washington Post: |
State photo-ID databases become troves for police — The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver's-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix — Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux — IBM's lawsuit with SCO over just who owns Unix has crawled out of the grave and seems set to shuffle back into US courts. — For the uninitiated, or those who've successfully tried …
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