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Panorama:

Investigation of leaked source code reveals NSA tracks users of Tor website, calls visitors to Tails and Linux Journal sites “extremists” — NSA targets the privacy-conscious — The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany - in Berlin and Nuremberg - are under surveillance by the NSA.

More: Schneier on Security, Boing Boing, Linux Journal, Ars Technica, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Hill, RT, Gigaom, PandoDaily, The Register and Techdirt

Tweets: @ioerror, @arrington, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @nsa_pr, @botherder and @csoghoian

Richard Stiennon / securitycurrent:

Bruce Schneier and other security experts believe code leaks originate from an NSA leaker other than Snowden — Is there Another NSA Leaker? — This morning a partial analysis of the NSA's XKEYSCORE code was published in Germany. Jacob Applebaum, an evangelist for the The Onion Project (TOR), was one of the authors.

Tweets: @nikcub, @nirajc, @antderosa and @edfelten

comScore:

Android, Windows Phone market share unchanged from 3 months ago, iOS up 0.6%, BlackBerry down 0.6% — comScore Reports May 2014 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share — Smartphones Achieve 70 Percent Mobile Market Share — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, GeekWire, TechCrunch, WMPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Windows Phone Central, iMore and WinBeta

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, TIME, Ars Technica, Electronista, Mashable, CNET, VentureBeat, Daily Dot, Softpedia News and The Verge

Kellex / Droid Life:

Verizon Prepaid is Finally Getting 4G LTE, Likely on July 17 — According to sources of ours, Verizon prepaid is finally getting access to the carrier's massive 4G LTE network come July 17. As those of you in the prepaid game know, Verizon has lagged behind others in terms of prepaid data speeds …

More: Gigaom, PhoneNews.com, 9to5Google and SeekingAlpha.com

Joe Rossignol / 9to5Google:

EFF warns that Android might be broadcasting your location history, Google investigating possible changes — Last month, Apple quietly unveiled a new feature in iOS 8 that automatically scrambles an iOS device's MAC address when it is searching for Wi-Fi networks.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Register, The Next Web, BGR, Electronista, The Verge and Daily Dot

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: The Next Web, Businessweek, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Re/code, Engadget, CNET and PandoDaily. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger Finally Gets An iPad Version — Three years after Facebook acquired Beluga and turned it into Messenger for smartphones, its dedicated chat app today got a version specially designed for iPad rather than just running as an enlarged iPhone app.

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Charles River Ventures Raises $393 Million For Its 16th Fund — Charles River Ventures, the early stage venture capital firm that's jointly based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Silicon Valley, has raised $393 million for a new investment fund, according to documents filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More: VentureBeat

Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Consumer privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center files complaint with the FTC over controversial Facebook study — Privacy watchdog files complaint over Facebook study — SAN FRANCISCO — A privacy watchdog group filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission …

More: New York Times, The Hill, NationalJournal.com and epic.org

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, CNET, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, The Technology Chronicles, Guardian, TechSpot, InvestorPlace, The Verge, WebProNews, bizjournals, TheDomains.com, Mercury News, 9to5Google, Re/code and TIME. Tweets: @squawkalley

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: Philly.com, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Technology Chronicles, Uber Blog, Fast Company, CBS Pittsburgh, CNET, Washington Post, TechSpot, Engadget and SlashGear

Tweets: @billpeduto, @uber_pit and @bridgepburgh

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