BlackBerry Co-Founder Mike Lazaridis Is Said to Consider Bid for Company  —  BlackBerry Co-Founder Is Said to Consider Bid for Company  —  Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2012, has reached out to private equity firms about a possible bid for the troubled company.

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses  —  LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses  —  LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …

Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix  —  Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared.  —  On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah …

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’  —  The National Security Agency sent out a letter to all of its employees and affiliates, including contractors, that could be printed and shared with family, friends and colleagues.

PSA: BBM for iOS rollout underway, Android version acting a little shy  —  It's been something of a mixed week for BlackBerry, but it's good news for those with an affinity for its BBM service (but an allegiance to other phones.)  If you're over on the Apple side of the fence …

Benchmark test shows iPhone 5's touchscreen responds more than 2X faster than Android devices  —  Apple's iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices  —  Apple's iPhone 5 is 2.5 times faster at responding to touches than Google Android devices, according to a benchmark test by game and app streaming firm Agawi.

Tim Cook: The Complete Interview  —  For this week's cover story on Apple and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said far more than was ever going to make it into the story.  Or even the outtakes from the story.  So for even more Tim Cook, here is the transcript of the entire interview, edited only for clarity.

Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time  —  Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet  —  For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …

Google's plan to replace browser cookies causes concern for the digital advertising industry  —  Advertisers Worry About Changes to ‘Cookies’  —  As Google Considers New System, Madison Ave.  Wrings Its Hands  —  The possibility that Google Inc. could stop using “cookies” …

Spain passes new anti-piracy laws, raises maximum penalty to six years  —  Nearly six months ago, we reported that Spain was under heavy pressure from the United States to strengthen its anti-piracy laws.  (That, of course, comes after Spain enacted an anti-piracy law in 2011.)

Senator Al Franken voices privacy concerns over Apple's Touch ID in letter to Tim Cook  —  Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize the secure, locked down nature of its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system, but Senator Al Franken still believes the technology “raises substantial privacy questions.”