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May 31, 2013, 8:30 PM

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Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands — San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.

More: Techdirt, Techie Buzz, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, The Verge, DSLreports, Mashable, ZDNet, Yahoo! News, The Tell and Boing Boing. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Justice Department tries to force Google to hand over user data — Secret lawsuit in Manhattan filed last month asks judge to force Google to cough up user data without a search warrant. A different court has already ruled that the process is unconstitutional.

More: TechPolitik, Marketing Pilgrim and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk. Tweets: @jonathanstray

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

After Four Years, Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver to Depart — Ryan Sarver, Twitter's director of platform who worked closely with the company's partner ecosystem over the past four years, announced on Friday that he plans to leave the company. — “After four incredible …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, GigaOM and CNET. Tweets: @rsarver

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth leaves Twitter to start something new, The Guardian's Bulusu now PM

More: AllThingsD and TechCrunch

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Tumblr's Creative Director Quits — Jacob Bijani joined Tumblr as one of its original, most formative employees (and its first designer/product engineer) back in 2008—when a $1.1 billion Yahoo buyout was unfathomable. Now he's leaving. — According to a farewell post on Bijani's site …

More: Jacob Bijani, CNET, Business Insider, Betabeat, The Next Web, Mashable, SlashGear and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft launches iPad comparison site for Windows 8 tablets — Microsoft is launching the second phase of its advertising against Apple's iPad this week. Following an iPad mini commercial parody, a new site aims to convince consumers that Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets are worth buying over the iPad.

More: Windows Phone Central, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, The Next Web and Neowin

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Acer $400 ‘PC’ will run Android, pack Intel's Haswell chip — Acer is about to announce a PC that runs Android, showing that Windows and PC will not necessarily be synonymous in the coming months. — The Acer DA220HQL AIO will be priced just above $400 at most resellers.

More: Los Angeles Times, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, VentureBeat, The Droid Guy, Digital Trends, Engadget, Ubergizmo, TechEye, PC World, Pocket-lint and CPU-World

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Rumor: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange — Is Apple planning to launch an ad exchange, the way Facebook and Twitter have done? — That's the rumor. — We heard it from an executive who is one of the biggest players in online advertising. — We can't confirm it.

More: eWeek, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mobile Marketing Watch, App Advice, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Insanely Great Mac, AdExchanger, WebProNews and MacNN

Bloomberg:

DirecTV Said Among 3 Hulu Bidders at $1 Billion or More — DirecTV (DTV), the second-biggest U.S. pay-TV service, and two other bidders are each offering at least $1 billion for Hulu LLC, the online video website, said people with knowledge of the bid. — The other two couldn't be identified immediately.

More: The Verge and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters:

Megaupload founder wins access to evidence seized in raid — (Reuters) - A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the Internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges.

More: TorrentFreak, CNET, Stuff.co.nz, VentureBeat, BBC, Wall Street Journal, National Business Review, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Boing Boing, Inquirer, GamePolitics blogs, The Register, PC World, Agence France Presse, Bloomberg and The Next Web. Tweets: @kimdotcom

Lex Friedman / Macworld:

Camino browser project discontinued after ten years — Pour one out for Camino. The Mac-only browser, born a decade ago, is no longer under active development. — Camino was a free, open-source browser for the Mac, built on Mozilla's Gecko engine. Unlike other Mozilla-based browsers of its era …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, caminobrowser.org, internetnews.com, Cult of Mac, Macgasm and MacRumors

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

Every '90s Tween's Favorite Angst Outlet Xanga Will Shut Down Unless You Pony Up $60K — Xanga, one of the original online diary hubs for tweens too cool for Livejournal but not so cool that they didn't know to eschew blogging altogether, may soon shut down.

More: TheXangaTeam's Xanga, Digital Trends, The Verge and Valleywag

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Surface RT buyers in the U.S. now get a free cover — Starting Friday, May 31, consumers in the U.S. and Canada who buy a Surface RT tablet can score a free Touch or Type cover. — Microsoft is trying to drum up sales of its Surface RT tablet by kicking in a free cover.

More: Surface Blog, Windows Phone Central, GigaOM, Digital Trends, The Register, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, BGR and PC World

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Asus will release a 4K 30.5-inch monitor in the US this June — Perfect for professionals, gamers, and people with too much money — 4K Ultra High-Definition TVs are already on their way to our living rooms, but Asus is planning on giving users the option to connect a next-gen monitor up to their laptops and desktops next month.

More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Digital Media Wire, Geek.com, TechSpot, The Tech Report, SlashGear, GSMArena Blog, Boing Boing and Electronista

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims — BT has dumped Yahoo! as email provider to its six million broadband customers following months of customer complaints over hacking. — Marissa Mayer is battling to restore Yahoo!'s reputation for technological competence

More: ZDNet, The Tell, Mashable, ComputerWeekly, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK, IT PRO, HEXUS.net Business …, The Register, Computer Business Review, BT and Inquirer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hulu Plus Upgrades Its Living Room Experience With A New Look, Search, Controls & Added Kids Section — Hulu may be courting bidders right now, but in the meantime, the company is shipping a new Hulu Plus experience for the living room, with updates hitting today.

More: Hulu Blog, BetaNews, The Next Web, Engadget and Ubergizmo. See also Mediagazer

Xbox Wire:

The Beauty of Xbox One: A New Approach to Design — “Xbox has always had something to say. It's always been bold with a strong personality,” said Carl Ledbetter, Creative Director, Industrial Design. “Xbox One needs to serve our most loyal gaming fans and deliver unique entertainment experiences …

More: SuperSite for Windows, GeekWire, Ubergizmo, The Official Microsoft Blog, SlashGear, T3 News, Inquirer, destructoid, The Verge, Neowin, Polygon, TechNet Blogs and VG247

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Twitter now lets you edit your profile inline, including drag and drop for header and background photos — Twitter today rolled out a revamp of its profile editing functionality: everything can now be done inline. This includes not only updating the information on your Twitter profile …

More: Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Engadget, WebProNews and Pocket-lint

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Following Twitter and Evernote, LinkedIn beefs up security with optional two-step verification via SMS — LinkedIn today announced it has added optional two-step verification to its user accounts. The feature is another layer of security to protect against the increasing number of attacks …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, PC World, Marketing Land, TechHive, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, TechCrunch and Yahoo! News. Thanks:@thekenyeung

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Oracle outlines steps to improve Java home, enterprise security — Summary: Following high-profile hacks and breaches at major technology companies, including Apple and Facebook, the Java maker is knuckling down on the Web plug-in's security. — Zack Whittaker

More: The Oracle Software … and Computerworld

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