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June 14, 2014, 10:55 AM

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Martyn Williams / ITworld.com:

AT&T discloses that SSNs and other personal data for an unspecified number of customers was exposed in April — AT&T says customer data accessed to unlock smartphones — Social Security numbers were accessed in a bid to unlock smartphones — Personal information …

More: Phone Scoop, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iMore, Washington Post, MacNN and Softpedia News

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

Twitter's mobile apps now let you embed tweets inside tweets — In what looks like an effort to clean up how tweets appear in your timeline, Twitter for iOS and Android both actually embed tweets that have been linked in a tweet. — To embed a tweet in a tweet, just drop the link of the update's URL in the tweet you're composing.

More: Engadget, iMore, Softpedia News and App Advice

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Twitter brings Bing translation to iOS, expands use on Web

More: The Register, The Next Web, LIVEdigitally, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Marketing Land, Engadget, iMore and MacNN

Tweets: @johnlegere, @fxshaw and @jandawson

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Major iOS/OS X updates in the same year show Tim Cook is bringing operational efficiency home to Cupertino — Only Apple — 1. — “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook's closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes. Here's what he said at the end of last week's WWDC keynote: … Is this true, though?

More: iMore and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @fmanjoo, @benedictevans, @monkbent, @erickschonfeld and @johnpaczkowski

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix to shut down third-party API access on November 14 for all but a few select partners — Netflix Will Shut Down Public API Support For Third-Party Developers On November 14 — Netflix is getting a lot stingier with the way that third-party developers can use its content …

More: Netflix API, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge and Glass

Tweets: @rsarver, @techofthehub and @ericmann

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Judge Orders DOJ To Hand Over FISA Court's Justification For Bulk Data Collection On Americans In FOIA Lawsuit — Late Friday, a judge in California ordered the DOJ to hand over key rulings from the FISA Court concerning the legality of the bulk records collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ars Technica, PC World, TechCrunch and The Verge

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix's website is suddenly sporting a fresh logo and brighter background — Netflix started tagging some of its trailers with a new logo around the start of May, and now it's part of changes on the streaming movie service's main website. The redesigned logo has replaced its predecessor at the top left …

More: TechSpot, Co.Design, Business Insider, SlashGear, VentureBeat and The Verge

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Judge calls out LinkedIn over spammy invitations, says emails can harm reputation — LinkedIn users who are suing the company over its aggressive marketing practices got a big boost on Thursday, when a federal judge ruled they can go forward with a class action lawsuit that turns on the company's familiar …

More: Bloomberg, SiliconBeat, Courthouse News Service, Online Social Media, redOrbit, TechRadar.com, ValueWalk, ConsumerAffairs.com, PC Magazine, SC Magazine and dmlp.org

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple and Samsung conserve resources, drop cross-appeal of ITC ruling on Apple's complaint — It would be an overstatement to call this a small-scale settlement and there are still no unmistakable signs of a thawing period between Apple and Samsung of the kind we saw last month when Apple …

More: Bloomberg

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple: We'll ‘soon’ begin encrypting iCloud email in transit between providers — Following the publication of an NPR article detailing the security of major email services, Apple has informed the network that it is working on an update to its iCloud Mail service that encrypts emails in transit from other providers.

More: VentureBeat, NPR, App Advice, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and iPhone in Canada Blog

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Handicapping the Winners and Losers in the Twitter Shakeup — While companies are not games, it's not hard to want to handicap the winners and losers in any major management shift or executive shakeout. — So, let's dispense with the niceties and get down to the brass tacks of what happened …

More: Gigaom, TechHive, Business Insider, Softpedia News and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @nytfridge, @tbiz, @roddrury and @rsarver

Ellen Huet / Forbes:

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia pleads no contest to hit-and-run charge, “will likely not spend any time in jail” — Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia Pleads No Contest To Reduced Charge In Hit-And-Run — Tech CEO Nirav Tolia — originally charged with felony hit and run for his involvement …

More: Valleywag, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle and Business Insider. Tweets: @forbes

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

@SCOTUS_servo tweets unannounced changes to Supreme Court opinions after they're published — Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions — Supreme Court opinions are the law of the land, and so it's a problem when the Justices change the words of the decisions without telling anyone.

More: Daily Dot, Boing Boing and Techdirt

Tweets: @juliepsamuels, @waldojaquith, @brkend, @aardrian and @archazrael

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