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June 18, 2012, 8:10 AM

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Peter Ha / TechCrunch:

Sources: Microsoft And Barnes & Noble To Announce Tablet With Xbox Live Streaming Tomorrow — There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles. Both the Wrap and ATD claim the event will showcase a Microsoft built Windows RT/Windows 8 tablet.

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Mozilla takes aim at the iPad browser market with its ‘Junior’ prototype — When it comes to browsing the web on iOS, there are plenty of third-party alternatives to Apple's Safari. Atomic, Dolphin, Mercury, Opera, and Skyfire are just a few that have enjoyed some measure of success on the platform …

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

U.S. Government Requests For Google Users' Private Data Jump 37% In One Year — Updated with a correction from Google below. — The American government's appetite for Google's data is growing. — In the second half of 2011, Google received 6,321 requests that it hand over its users' private data …

More: The Verge, Inquirer, ZDNet, CNET, PC World, Google Public Policy Blog, AllThingsD, fierceonlinevideo.com, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, The Next Web, memeburn and MediaNama. Thanks:@forbestech

Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:

Google's Censorship Juggle

More: Telegraph, GigaOM and Guardian. Tweets: @csoghoian

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Linus Torvalds: ‘f**k you, Nvidia’ for not supporting Linux — Linus Torvalds isn't someone you'd accuse of excessive diplomacy and his answer to a question about Nvidia's lack of support for Linux with its Optimus technology has been far from compromising.

More: Engadget, The H Open Source, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, CNET, Gizmodo and Slashdot

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps — (Reuters) - Frustrated by their inability to stop sophisticated hacking attacks or use the law to punish their assailants, an increasing number of U.S. companies are taking retaliatory action. — Known in the cyber security industry as …

Tweets: @mikalfm and @bwoj

Cocoanetics:

Public Transit in iOS 6 — By now it is public knowledge that there will be no in-house replacement for routing via public means of transport in iOS 6. Indeed if you hold an iOS 6 phone (that somebody maybe has left in a bar) and you try to plan a route from point A to point B you find …

More: iPhone Alley and TUAW

Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:

Verzion intros FiOS Quantum, officially priced up to 300Mbps — What's faster than FiOS internet service? FiOS Quantum evidently, as Verizon's latest high-speed internet service gets an official name and pricing. Effectively doubling every tier — except the entry-level 15/5 …

More: The Verge, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Multichannel News, Reuters and HotHardware.com News

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Does Auto Layout In iOS 6 Mean A Larger iPhone Screen Is Coming? — The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage pulling back the curtains …

Thanks:@sohear

Zack Whittaker / CNET:

‘Censorship creep’: Pirate Bay block will affect one-third of U.K. — Censorship is a slippery slope. The United Kingdom: my home. Case in point. — Most U.K. customers accessing The Pirate Bay will see this, or a similar message. — (Credit: Zack Whittaker/CNET)

More: TechCrunch

Olga Kharif / Business Week:

Why Nuance Is Giving It Away — In 2009, Nuance Communications (NUAN), one of the largest players in voice recognition software, licensed its technology for use in a small mobile app. That app was Siri, which Apple (AAPL) bought in 2010 and turned into a major feature in the latest iPhone …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Make Way For More Tech Investment: Index Ventures Raises Another €350M Fund — The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a big drop in startup investments up ahead, but that's not the message coming from one of the region's biggest VC firms.

More: IMM, Index Ventures Blog, CNET, VentureBeat, Fortune, Digits, Social Markets, ArcticStartup, VatorNews, The Next Web, DealBook, GigaOM and AllThingsD. Tweets: @martenmickos

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever — There's a lot more to Google's Knowledge Graph than might be apparent from what you see in a casual search. — The ugly truth is that computers don't know anything. They have no common sense.

Tweets: @andrewpk

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