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June 8, 2014, 4:50 PM

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Interactive notifications in iOS 8 are a new interface frontier — Why Notifications Are About to Rule the Smartphone Interface — When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already …

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @stevesi, @mdudas, @dkr, @niemanlab, @smc90, @smc90 and @tonyromm

New York Times:

How Google, Facebook, and other tech giants are now more actively impeding government spying — Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become …

More: Business Insider and TIME. Tweets: @paulszoldra, @jpbarlow, @marymad, @ggreenwald, @kenroth, @the_intercept, @granick and @csoghoian

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA

Tweets: @papakipos, @profkeithdevlin, @leeannmcadoo, @forbestech, @kenwsmith54 and @kashhill

Michael Crider / Android Police:

Google Now Has An Alarm That Can Wake You Up To Keep You From Missing Your Stop On Public Transportation — It's Saturday night. You've spent the last six hours partaking of the fruit of the vine in pleasant company (read: you're so drunk that your date is getting a contact buzz).

More: Engadget, Business Insider, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, Neowin, GSMArena Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Android and Me, Android Central and Gizmodo

Ruth Spencer / Guardian:

Creator of @everyword explains the life and death of a Twitter experiment — In 2007, Adam Parrish created an enormously popular account to tweet the English language a word at a time. He explains why he did it and what he learned — Creator Adam Parrish: 'It's kind of a magical writing experiment.'

More: PC Magazine, Neowin, decontextualizedecontextualize, The Verge, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo and Kotaku

Tweets: @kathrynschulz and @bgzimmer

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

RebelMouse relaunches as a full-fledged publishing platform that's tuned for viral content — Two years ago, former Huffington Post chief technology officer Paul Berry launched a site called RebelMouse to give media companies and users of all kinds a way of aggregating the various pieces …

More: RebelMouse, Capital New York, Fast Company and The Next Web

Nick Kokonas / Alinea:

Inside the development of Alinea's restaurant ticketing system built to replace reservations — Tickets for Restaurants — Resos vs. Access Apps vs. Tix: More Than You'd Ever Care to Know — Ticketing for restaurants has been in the news a lot lately. Here are just a few articles:

More: Gigaom Research. Tweets: @dansinker, @stoweboyd, @therealfitz, @waxpancake and @anildash

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

Meet the new Apple: Fitter, happier, and ready to play — Fitter, happier, and ready to play — While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding.

More: Vox, stratechery and Conversation Agent

Tweets: @nbelloni, @oburt, @50champ, @davewiner and @jsnell

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Uber could be worth $18B if it greatly expands the size of the paid rides market — Why Uber just might be worth it at $18 billion — Uber, the pioneering taxi-hailing app and ride dispatch service, scored an impressive $18.2 billion valuation last week as it raised $1.2 billion in new venture capital.

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @ernmando, @edwardnh, @greglinden, @danielmwolf, @rolfewinkler, @innonate and @davegirouard

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Who are the investors making 2000X paper gains from Uber's first angel round?

More: PC Magazine, Bloomberg, Valleywag, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Businessweek

Tweets: @dutchcowboy, @thestalwart and @chrisrcampbell

Bruce Upbin / Forbes:

Flaw in millions of TVs lets researchers hijack digital broadcasts, inject malicious code — Red Button Flaw Exposes Major Vulnerability In Millions of Smart TVs — It's 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday in New York City. People in their apartments in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan …

More: Gizmodo and SlashGear. Tweets: @forbestech, @dfmag, @dabeaz and @kashhill. Thanks:@thealexknapp

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Patent troll VirnetX close to winning 0.98% royalty on Apple's iPhone and iPad sales in the US — Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue — In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung.

More: MacDailyNews, PR Newswire and SeekingAlpha.com

Tweets: @sampullara, @reftpt, @smenor, @bowbrick and @xor

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Taptalk takes on Snapchat with app for sending ephemeral photos and videos with one tap — This is the fastest photo chat app in the world — With Taptalk, it takes just one tap to send a photo or video — Taptalk is, dare I say, cooler than Snapchat.

Tweets: @hamburger

Lee Fang / VICE:

Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality — Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images — Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission continue …

More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Electronista and DSLreports

Tweets: @zimbalist, @pogue, @hntweets, @lhfang and @dangillmor

Thanks:@themadhacker

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