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May 11, 2013, 5:30 PM

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Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Big changes coming to AppleCare this fall: warranty subscriptions, in-store iOS device repairs, more [u] — In a town hall session held on Thursday, Apple informed tech staff that major changes to the AppleCare and AppleCare+ service programs will be enacted starting this fall …

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New York Times:

Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals — A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news. — The company confirmed that reporters …

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Steve Liesman / CNBC:

Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Use of Terminal Data — Both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury Department are examining the extent to which Bloomberg-terminal usage by top officials might have been tracked by Bloomberg journalists, CNBC has learned.

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google's VP9 video codec nearly done; YouTube will use it — One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17. — Google plans to finish defining its VP9 video codec on June 17 …

More: The WebM Open Media … and Softpedia News

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Facebook's General Counsel Ullyot to Depart the Company — Facebook's top lawyer Ted Ullyot is leaving the social networking giant, apparently to take some time off. — Facebook disclosed the departure today. Ullyot, 45, will be officially gone in July; the search for his replacement will include internal and external candidates.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook and bizjournals

Reuters:

Exclusive: Elon Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group — (Reuters) - Billionaire environmentalist Elon Musk has quit a Silicon Valley advocacy group formed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg after the group funded ads for senators touting their support for an oil pipeline and oil drilling in Alaska.

More: AllThingsD, VatorNews, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, The Atlantic Wire, New York Times, GigaOM, HotHardware.com News, CNET, Valleywag, The Register, Business Insider, Quartz and The Next Web

Tweets: @semil, @om and @mattrosoff

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Patent Court Torn on Whether Software Deserve Patents — The nation's top patent court issued a deeply divided opinion today on how to determine if software is eligible for legal protection, reflecting the broader debate that has split the computer industry.

More: ITworld.com and Reuters

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's two-step verification rolling out to additional countries: Canada, Argentina, Netherlands, Russia, Mexico, Poland, Brazil, more — Update: Mexico, Germany Netherlands, Russia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Portugal, Italy & Poland too. Let us know in the comments if the feature is now available in your country.

More: AppleInsider, CNET, The Verge, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, iClarified and MacNN

Michael B. Farrell / The Boston Globe:

Boston goes Google as its drops Microsoft e-mail services — The mayor who doesn't do e-mail is now on Gmail. — Whether Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who doesn't even have a computer on his desk, actually uses it is another matter. But he's moving to Google, and bringing some 20,000 other city employees with him.

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, Screenwerk, Network World, CNET, 9to5Google and Softpedia News

Associated Press:

Washington state courts hacked; potentially up to 160,000 Social Security numbers accessed — OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers …

More: GeekWire, Forbes, ZDNet, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News

David Kravets / Wired:

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform — The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, TechPresident and Salon

Brad Reed / BGR:

Microsoft exec hits back at Windows 8 bashing, says OS is not like ‘a can of soda’ — Microsoft executive Frank Shaw is not happy with everyone who compared Windows 8 to New Coke this week. Shaw, who serves as Microsoft's vice president of corporate communications, has written a blog post swiping …

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, The Economist, The Verge, CNET, PC World, GeekWire, Business Insider and The Register

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