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May 27, 2016, 6:20 PM

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Leena Rao / Fortune:

Sources: Jawbone is trying to sell its wireless speaker business, will focus on health and wearables — Fitness tracker maker Jawbone has put its speaker business up for sale, according to multiple sources. — The company has been pitching potential buyers for its Jambox wireless speaker business …

More: MacRumors, Quartz, Engadget, The Verge and SlashGear

Steve Kovach / Tech Insider:

Sources: Jawbone has stopped making UP fitness trackers, sold the remaining inventory to a reseller at a discount to raise cash — Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.

More: AppleInsider, Windows Central and Wearable Tech Insider

TechCrunch:

Facebook starts selling offsite ads targeting non-users too — Facebook's advertising network is already a colossal business — it helped the social network bring in over $5 billion in revenue in its most recent quarter alone — but it is about to take a step towards become …

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Investigation of SWIFT breach expands to 12 more banks; Symantec corroborates BAE's report that hackers used code similar to North Korean Sony hack — Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack. — The investigation into the attempted $1 billion electronic heist …

Abner Li / 9to5Google:

Google app on iOS gets faster load times, AMP articles in search, keyboard shortcuts, more — Faster load and search times are the highlight feature of an update to the Google app on iOS. Like on the mobile web and Android, AMP articles will now show up in search results.

More: Inside Search, Digital Trends, iMore, ZDNet, The Verge, Cult of Mac, The Next Web and MacStories

The Intercept:

Sen. Wyden: this year's annual intelligence authorization, just passed in Senate committee and not yet public, allows FBI warrantless access to email records — A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate's annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability …

More: Hit & Run, Techdirt and BGR

Tweets: @pashdown and @digiphile

Cade Metz / Wired:

Facebook and Microsoft partner to lay highest capacity transatlantic internet cable yet, connecting Virginia and Spain with a bandwidth of 160Tbps — Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive Internet cable across the middle of the Atlantic. — Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide” …

Nick Denton / Gawker:

Nick Denton challenges Peter Thiel to a public debate in open letter, says decade-long campaign by Thiel is out of proportion, asks about ultimate intent — Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag …

Kara Swisher / Recode:

As Facebook courts publishers, the company and some of its directors decline to comment on board member Peter Thiel's funding of lawsuit against Gawker

More: TechCrunch, Slate, BuzzFeed, INSIDER, Gawker, Digital Trends, New York Times, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Guardian, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, New York Magazine, Fortune and Politico

Tweets: @arrington, @jacremes, @vkhosla and @benthompson

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