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| The Intercept: |
New documents show XKEYSCORE, NSA's Google-like tool, collects more data than previously reported including web searches and router configuration information — XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications — Illustrations by Blue Delliquanti and David Axe for The Intercept
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Silicon Republic, CoinTelegraph.Com News, TechSpot, Business Insider, Engadget and CNET
Tweets: @the_intercept, @just_security, @ggreenwald, @emptywheel, @rj_gallagher and @attackerman
| Wall Street Journal: |
SEC investigating improper selling of private tech stocks including employee-owned shares — Regulators Probe Marketing of Hot Private Tech Shares — Trading of such shares has boomed in recent months — Securities regulators have launched a broad investigation into whether hedge funds … | Steve Ragan / CSO Online: |
Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments, breached; attackers release 400GB of internal documents, source code, and emails — Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data — Firm made famous for helping governments spy on their citizens left exposed
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ZDNet, Silicon Republic, The Inquisitr News and Motherboard
Tweets: @csoghoian, @mattcutts, @swiftonsecurity, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @swiftonsecurity
| Kevin Fitchard / Fortune: |
The economics of inflight Wi-Fi: why prices and speeds vary so widely — The crazy economics of inflight Wi-Fi — It's summer time, and that means millions of Americans will soon make their way to airports across the country. An amenity featured on more and more flights these days …
Tweets: @gigastacey and @kfitchard
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
A media platform based on blockchain will arrive soon, which unlike Reddit or Twitter can't be policed — The Decentral Authority — We've been big fans of Reddit since it was part of the first Y Combinator class ten years ago this summer. We've watched closely as it emerged as a community powered mostly by its users.
| Ricardo Bilton / Digiday: |
Microsoft's ad business withered because it tried to beat Google in search, overspent on aQuantive, and had warring factions in its organization — Autopsy: Why Microsoft's ad business withered — On Tuesday, Microsoft said that it was handing over its ad sales business to AOL …
Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Why YouTube's recommendation algorithm began prioritizing watch time instead of views in 2012 — The ‘terrifying’ moment in 2012 when YouTube changed its entire philosophy — Although there wasn't any Roman-style backstabbing, YouTubers will remember the Ides of March 2012 as a traumatic day in the company's history.| Christopher White / Neowin: |
History of the original Xbox: a last minute switch from AMD to Intel, Red Ring of Death, more — The history of Xbox as told by the leaders of the company — There's no question that the Xbox has a sordid past. From the Duke controller to the RRoD, things haven't always gone smoothly for Microsoft's gaming console.
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IGN, GamePolitics blogs, WinBeta, TechnoBuffalo, destructoid and Ars Technica UK
| Annie Lowrey / New York Magazine: |
Lyft can survive as #2 by differentiating from Uber on user experience and staying focused just on ride-sharing — Can Lyft pull an Avis? — John Zimmer is one of the two founders of the ride-sharing service Lyft, and on a hazy spring afternoon, he was standing on the top …
Tweets: @ezraklein, @mdudas and @annielowrey
| Nolan Lawson / Read the Tea Leaves: |
Apple is falling behind other browser makers in implementing web standards in Safari — Safari is the new IE — Last weekend I attended EdgeConf, a conference populated by many of the leading lights in the web industry. It featured panel talks and breakout sessions with a focus …
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Read the Tea Leaves, Kenneth Auchenberg, Six Colors, iMore and Six Colors
Tweets: @donmelton, @philiped, @jessewilson, @ryosukeniwa, @seldo, @kevinmarks, @zeldman, @cdixon and @carnage4life
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Pay expected to go live in the U.K. on July 14th, £20+ transactions starting this fall — Apple appears to be planning to enable its Apple Pay iPhone mobile payments service in the United Kingdom on July 14th, according to sources at multiple retailers.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Some key differences between Facebook's and YouTube's revenue sharing plans for video creators — How Facebook's New Video Business Stacks Up Against YouTube — Facebook is stepping on YouTube's turf. — On Wednesday the social network announced it will start sharing ad revenue with some of its most popular video creators.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Nearly all major subreddits are set to public again after going private in protest — Nearly all major subreddits are back online following Reddit protests — Just a day after a massive revolt tore down parts of Reddit, the site now appears to be mostly back to normal.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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Wired, The Social Memo, Gizmodo, BBC, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, The Daily Dot, The Social Memo, Forbes, reddit, Business Insider, TIME, Ars Technica, Re/code, Polygon, reddit, BetaNews, Business Insider, all, CNN, Digg, BuzzFeed, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, The Verge, PC Magazine, ZDNet and Gawker
Tweets: @drew, @happysquid, @sfiegerman, @mikeisaac, @dangillmor, @mikeisaac, @sarahnemerson, @mikeisaac, @auerbachkeller, @waxpancake, @startupljackson and @mikeisaac
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