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June 4, 2015, 7:25 PM

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New York Times:
NSA documents: Justice Department authorized expansion of NSA surveillance to enable search of US Internet traffic for evidence of hacking originating abroad  —  Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border  —  WASHINGTON — Without public notice or debate …
Wall Street Journal:
US suspects Chinese hackers have breached records of about 4M current and former government employees, FBI probe underway  —  U.S. Suspects Data Breach at Federal Office Hit 4 Million  —  Described as one of the largest thefts of government data ever seen
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Maps, Pipes, GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter APIs, and some regional sites  —  Yahoo today released an updated product report for 2015, highlighting the closure of several products, regional sites, and support for older Apple devices in some cases.
Apple:
Apple Watch arrives in seven more countries on June 26, some models to start selling in retail stores in two weeks  —  Apple Watch Arrives in Seven More Countries June 26  —  Sales in Apple Retail Stores to Begin in Two Weeks  —  Apple® today announced Apple Watch™ will be available in Italy …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Lite Is A Stripped Down Android App For The Developing World  —  Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.  So today, Facebook is launching a bare-bones …
Jared DiPane / Android Central:
Touch to Search feature rolling out in Chrome for Android, allows users to highight text and see Google search results without leaving page  —  New Touch to Search feature appears to be rolling out in Chrome for Android  —  Chrome for Android appears to be gaining some new functionality, Touch to Search, in a server-side update.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Messenger removes always-on location sharing feature, replaces it with one-time sharing via pin drop; head of product teases future location features  —  Facebook Messenger Ditches Constant Mapping To Lay Groundwork For More Location Features  —  Facebook is removing the confusing …
Sean Hollister / Gizmodo:
Steam Machines from Alienware and Syber, Steam Controller, and Steam Link available for pre-order to be shipped October 16; general release on November 10  —  Today's the Day You Can Pay for a Steam Machine  —  Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will do their damnest to sell you on PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Dell is bringing the borderless Infinity display to its 15-inch XPS laptop  —  The delightfully borderless Infinity display that Dell introduced on the XPS 13 this year is moving up in size class.  As part of a sneak preview of upcoming Windows 10 hardware here at Computex Taipei, Microsoft showed the new Dell XPS 15.

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