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June 30, 2013, 1:25 PM

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The Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program  —  The top-secret PRISM program allows the U.S. intelligence community to gain access from nine Internet companies to a wide range of digital information, including e-mails and stored data, on foreign targets operating outside the United States.
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
New PRISM slides: more than 100,000 ‘active surveillance targets,’ explicit mention of real-time monitoring  —  The Washington Post has revealed four new slides from its trove of top secret PRISM information, appearing to confirm earlier reporting about the US government surveillance program.
Cade Metz / Wired:
Google's Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost)  —  Google bought one.  So did Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest defense contractors.  But we still can't agree on what it is they bought.  —  D-Wave, the company that built the thing, calls it the world's first quantum computer …
TechCrunch:
Why Oracle And Salesforce, Once Bitter Rivals, Are Now On Cloud Nine  —  Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison, the CEOs of two of the more powerful enterprise companies in the world — Salesforce.com and Oracle — are not known to be the chummiest of pals.  Before this week's sudden peaceful truce …
More: PandoDaily, SiliconBeat and FortuneTweets: @levie
Naval / Startup Boy:
A Venture SLA  —  There is an opportunity for a new VC Firm to brand itself.  Recent brands in Venture Capital arose from transparency and founder-friendliness.  YCombinator gives new, young, technical talent an entry into Silicon Valley.  500 Startups does it globally.  Fred Wilson blogs the business.
David Kravets / Wired:
NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower  —  Today's revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblower's longstanding claims that AT&T was forwarding global internet traffic …
Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform  —  The tech industry scored two major victories on immigration this week, but its toughest legislative battle on the issue lies ahead in the House.  —  The passage of the Senate's immigration bill is the closest the tech industry …
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Why Is Apple Still Wrangling Over E-Books?  —  A question hangs over Apple Inc.'s e-books trial: Why is Apple fighting the U.S. Department of Justice when the book publishers the agency also sued chose to settle?  —  The answer lies in part in what's at stake.
More: MoneyBeat
Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:
Demo of the first public website using Safari's new native push notifications feature [Video]  —  During the WWDC keynote, Apple introduced a new Safari 7 feature that allows developers to take advantage of native push notifications on their websites.  Unlike HTML5 push notifications …

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