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July 3, 2014, 11:05 AM

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone — Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.

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Tweets: @mathewi, @jimmy_wales, @pmarca, @dannysullivan and @robpegoraro

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Nick Summers / Businessweek:

How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe — Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …

More: socalTECH.com and Business Insider. Tweets: @felixgillette, @johnolilly, @emilywlevy, @mims, @fugueish, @m2jr, @gabrielsnyder, @bairdjulia, @percival, @_tessr, @edmundlee, @theman, @pmarca, @neetzan, @doreeshafrir, @jenvalentino, @mclamagna, @nickconfessore, @kevinroose, @mattdpearce, @randfish, @llewellynhinkes, @samfbiddle and @thestalwart. Thanks:@mattlynley

Chris Morris / CNBC:

Google bans porn from its ad network — Google is getting out of the porn advertising business. The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”

More: Search Engine Land, Business Insider, CNET, Guardian, The Verge, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, bizjournals, 9to5Google, Mercury News, Re/code and TIME. Tweets: @squawkalley

Mark Scott / New York Times:

London Transport Regulator Says Uber Can Legally Operate — LONDON - In the battle between Europe's taxi drivers and the ride-sharing service Uber, score one for Uber. — On Thursday, London's transport regulator said that Uber, the West Coast technology start-up that has faced protests …

More: Engadget, The Next Web, Bloomberg and CNET

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Microsoft surrenders the 23 domains it recently confiscated from No-IP — Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains — Microsoft has surrendered the 23 domain names it confiscated from dynamic domain hosting service No-IP.com, a move that begins the process …

More: Help Net Security, No-IP Blog and Forbes

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Goldman says Google has blocked email with leaked client data — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) on Wednesday said Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has blocked access to an email containing confidential client data that a contractor sent to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake …

More: Wall Street Journal

Justine Coyne / Pittsburgh Business Times:

Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh — Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have been issued a cease-and-desist order and must immediately stop operations in Pittsburgh. — In an order granted Tuesday, Judges Mary D. Long and Jeffrey A. Watson said the companies cannot operate until …

More: Washington Post, Philly.com, Uber Blog, CBS Pittsburgh, Fast Company, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CNET and Engadget

Tweets: @bridgepburgh, @billpeduto and @uber_pit

Christopher Tozzi / The VAR Guy:

Automotive Grade Linux Released for Open Source Cars — Linux, the open source operating system, shifted gears into a relatively new ecosystem this week with the first release of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a Linux distribution tailored for cars in the Internet of Things age.

More: Linux Foundation, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, Inquirer, The Register and eWeek

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter — Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol — The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz. Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies …

Tweets: @wesupportnyc, @mathewi, @sacca, @kashhill and @alyssa_milano. Thanks:@themadhacker

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate — Brazilian ‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions — With the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud that's giving Brazilian banks …

More: Speaking of Security, ABC News, ZDNet, The Register, SecurityWeek, Reuters, New York Times and SC Magazine

Tweets: @ckindel and @rogeragrimes

Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal:

HTC reports net profit of $76.6M above estimates, thanks to cost cutting and launch of HTC One — HTC Swings to Profit on New Flagship Phone, Cost Cutting — Revenue Could Struggle With Launch of Next-Generation Phones in Second Half by Rivals Apple, Samsung

More: Engadget, The Verge, PC World, 9to5Google and Geeky Gadgets

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior — A Bright Side to Facebook's Experiments on Its Users — Facebook's disclosure last week that it had tinkered with about 700,000 users' news feeds as part of a psychology experiment conducted …

More: Wall Street Journal, Medium, Guardian and The Atlantic Online

Tweets: @zeynep and @zeynep

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more — Google today announced that a major update to Play Services is now rolled out, bumping it from version 4.4 to 5.0. Many of the details in this update were announced at Google I/O last week …

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, BetaNews, The Verge, The Next Web, PC World, Phandroid, Android Developers Blog, CNET, Gigaom, AndroidGuys, Android Central, Engadget and ITProPortal

Valerie Lee / Dancing Astronaut:

Soundcloud continues to push boundaries of privacy policies; enables Universal to screen, monitor, and terminate accounts — Following the forced decision of artists like Kaskade to leave behind Soundcloud as their go-to forum for music sharing, like clockwork, the platform has provided …

More: Do Androids Dance, mixmag.net, Mixmag, Boing Boing and hypebot

Tweets: @p4ula and @textfiles

Juliette Garside / Guardian:

Study: 19% of top 100K most visited websites are blocked by Britain's adult content filters — Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites — Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say

More: TorrentFreak, BGR, BetaNews, The Independent, Forbes and PandoDaily

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Daily Dot:

CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod “Slasher” Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging — Reddit ban leaves esports site OnGamers fighting for survival — In November, CBS Interactive's flagship esports news site launched with big ambitions.

More: onGamers. Tweets: @ongamers_com, @slasher, @slasher, @mathewi, @kmmokai, @devinconnors and @mioff

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