Twitter acquires SnappyTV, the service for clipping, editing, and sharing video clips from live broadcasts  —  SnappyTV is joining the flock  —  One of the best ways to follow events as they unfold is through real-time videos on Twitter.  As we continue to invest in video …

US Marshals Service leaks list of participants in the auction of 30,000 Silk Road bitcoins  —  CONFIRMED: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals  —  UPDATE (22:25 BST): Updated with comment from Lynzey Donahue, a U.S. Marshals spokeswoman.

T-Mobile is setting a dangerous precedent for wireless net neutrality with its Music Freedom initiative  —  T-Mobile's ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem  —  It sounds great, but it's really, really, really bad  —  Net neutrality has seen headier days, and to be honest …

iOS 8 exposes almost every manual camera control possible, allows third-party apps access to all  —  Manual Camera Controls in iOS 8  —  For the longest time, iOS had almost no camera controls at all.  There would be a toggle for HDR, a toggle to switch to the front-facing camera, and a toggle to switch to video recording mode.

Amazon is first to offer free, unlimited, out-of-the-box photo storage with Fire Phone and the competition will need to follow its lead  —  It's No Longer A Smartphone, It's A Smartcamera  —  The truly disruptive feature of Amazon's Fire Phone  —  A few weeks ago, I lined up to take a picture …

BlackBerry Q1: $23 million in profit, beats analyst expectations  —  Summary: BlackBerry is in the midst of turning from hardware to services, and the restructuring appears to be fruitful.  The company still experienced losses in Q1, but the financial result is not as bad as expected.  —  Charlie Osborne

T-Mobile Offering Weeklong iPhone “Test Drive” to Lure Customers  —  Pulling a page from the car dealer's manual, T-Mobile is offering would-be customers a free seven-day trial of its network using an iPhone 5s.  —  “You [can] have a seven-night stand,” CEO John Legere said in an interview …

NY AG: iPhone's activation lock reduces phone thefts; Android and Windows Phone to also have kill switches  —  Android, Windows Phone Will Have Kill Switches, N.Y. Says  —  Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will incorporate a “kill switch” into the next versions …

Code Spaces closes shop after attackers destroy Amazon-hosted customer data  —  Code Spaces closes shop after attackers destroy Amazon-hosted customer data.  —  A code-hosting service that boasted having a full recovery plan has abruptly closed after someone gained unauthorized access …

Codecademy Partners With Google And DonorsChoose To Boost Girls' Interest In Computer Science  —  Programming education startup Codecademy is announcing a new initiative with a stated goal “to double the number of high school girls studying Computer Science.”

As Iraq censors Internet, Tor usage jumps tenfold  —  As the Iraqi government censors large swaths of the Internet following devastating attacks and victories by the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), thousands of people are adopting Tor, the most popular anonymizing tool online, to get around government obstruction.

President Obama at the White House Maker Faire: “Today's D.I.Y. Is Tomorrow's ‘Made in America’”  —  “Our parents and our grandparents created the world's largest economy and strongest middle class not by buying stuff, but by building stuff — by making stuff, by tinkering and inventing and building …

Puppet Labs lands $40M in funding to boost its IT automation work  —  DevOps-centric Puppet Labs closed a series E $40 million investment round, bringing its total funding to $86 million.  The IT automation company plans on using the cash to expand globally and invest in research and development.

NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance program  —  ‘Third parties’ give NSA access to international fiber-optic cables, sharing massive amounts of phone and Internet data, new Snowden documents show.  Germany and, by all accounts, Denmark …

Teardown of Apple's new $1,099 iMac shows 8GB memory soldered to motherboard; will not be upgradable  —  Teardown of Lower-Cost 2014 iMac Reveals Soldered Memory  —  As we reported earlier today, Apple has released a new $1,099 iMac model with new specs including a 1.4GHz Dual-Core i5 processor …

Facebook Goes Down In Global Outage.  Update: It's Back!  —  Facebook appears to be a suffering a major outage this morning, with the site unavailable in multiple regions around the world, and Facebook social plug-ins on other websites also acting up.  —  The Facebook.com site is unavailable …

Galvanize lands $18 million in venture capital to broaden its education focus  —  Denver-based startup hub Galvanize LLC raised $18 million venture capital in a round led by New York City-based University Ventures Fund, attracting investors to Galvanize's vision of becoming a new kind …

Nest investor Shasta Ventures raises $300M for its fourth, and largest, fund  —  Shasta Ventures Sticks to Basics With New $300 Million Fund  —  Tod Francis, a managing director of Shasta Ventures, recalls a time when few in venture capital were interested in “consumer” start-ups.

iPhone 6 likely to sport barometer & air pressure sensors to measure altitude, weather  —  Besides a larger display and redesigned metal body, details regarding which features the next-generation iPhone models will pack have been light.  However, it appears that the new models could include a new sensor: a barometer.