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Reuters:
Sources: FTC looking into claims Apple treats rival music streaming services in its app store illegally under antitrust law  —  FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store  —  U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment …
Sam Altman / reddit:
Sam Altman announces Ellen Pao's resignation to Reddit, begins AMA  —  An old team at reddit  —  Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement.  I'm delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is returning as CEO.
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Ellen Pao out as Reddit CEO, co-founder and original CEO Steve Huffman takes over immediately; Pao to remain as adviser to the board through end of 2015  —  Pao Out as Reddit CEO; Co-Founder Huffman Takes Over  —  Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit's CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure …
Eric Geller / The Daily Dot:
Behind the new Crypto War: governments and tech companies face off over encryption backdoors  —  The rise of the new Crypto War  —  James B. Comey, Jr., the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is afraid of the dark.  —  “The law hasn't kept pace with technology …
Tweets: @matthew_d_green.  Thanks:@ericgeller
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
New study finds 90% of tech patent lawsuits in first half of 2015 were filed by patent trolls  —  Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high  —  Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.”  —  New patent statistics show that patent litigation …
More: GeekWire
Katherine Rushton / Daily Mail:
Google has received over 281K right to be forgotten requests to remove 1.1M links, deleted 602K of them  —  More than 280,000 people ask Google for the right to be forgotten and request more than a MILLION pages are wiped from the search engine's results  —  The massive scale …
More: 9to5Google
Lucian Constantin / PCWorld:
Exploit for second Flash vulnerability found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expects to release a fix in the next week  —  Second Flash Player zero-day exploit found in Hacking Team's data  —  The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers.
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
How Marketplace Lite, a coders-for-hire team, salvaged healthcare.gov after the “tech surge”  —  The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America  —  Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend.  The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition.
Tweets: @juzmcmuz and @jacobshea
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
First look: iOS 9 public beta is the update the iPad deserves  —  A smallish update for phones is a Mac-sized leap for tablets.  —  Up until now, Apple has kept beta versions of major iOS releases locked away behind its $99-a-year developer paywall.  You didn't need to actually be a developer …

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