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U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program — The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …
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NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program — Through a Top-Secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine internet companies for a wide range of digital data.
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| New York Times: |
Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak — After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors.
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The Next Web, T3 News, Guardian, Digital Trends and BGR
Tweets: @mattbors and @dannysullivan
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Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox and Yahoo deny participation in US government spying program PRISM — Shortly after reports of PRISM surfaced — a program which reportedly enables the US government to tap directly into the central servers of nine US-based Internet companies …
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| New York Times: |
President Obama's Dragnet — Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every …
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Twitter boosts its privacy cred with its absence from the NSA's surveillance program — From a US National Security Agency presentation, according to reports. — The list of technology companies allegedly participating in a vast US government surveillance program known as PRISM … | Jared A. Favole / Wall Street Journal: |
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| James Temple / The Technology Chronicles: |
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| Mark Felsenthal / Reuters: |
| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Start iPhone Trade-In Program in Stores — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is starting an iPhone trade-in program this month aimed at getting users to upgrade to the iPhone 5 and turn in older models, people with knowledge of the plans said. — Apple has teamed up with Brightstar Corp. … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine — AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter's popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine.
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Tech in Asia, The Verge and Valleywag
| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles — Yesterday there were some allegations made about whether Apple is intentionally throttling cellular data throughput on iPhones and iPads via some files used for network provisioning.
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iPhone, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Pocketnow, iClarified and GigaOM
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 Start button demonstrated fully in new video — Microsoft demonstrated a number of new features in Windows 8.1 earlier this week, but the company briefly showed the return of the Start button and avoided any details on how it visually works. During Computex this week the company took …
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics loses $12 billion market value on smartphone worries — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone.| Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe — When Google announced its plans to shutter Google Reader in March, the Internet freaked out. Twitter users raised their virtual pitchforks in outrage. Bloggers wept, scrambling to find a suitable replacement by the service's July 1 death date.| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Amazon, Google execs clash with Apple lawyers in ebook pricing trial — On the fourth day of the federal government's ebook pricing trial against Apple, Amazon and Google executives offered testimony in hearings that were often fraught and occasionally funny — but still introduced little evidence … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
| Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / The Flurry Blog: |
The iOS and Android Two-Horse Race: A Deeper Look into Market Share — Over the past four years, Apple's iOS and Google's Android have been locked into a two horse race for mobile OS ownership. In the past year, there has been a lot of focus on the rise of Android and its lead in device market share.
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iPhone Hacks, Android Beat, AdExchanger and The Mac Observer
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Any.DO debuts Cal, a new smart iOS Calendar and first in a suite of standalone apps — To-do list startup Any.DO is spinning out a brand new calendar app called Cal, which represents the “first in a suite” of standalone apps from the Israel-based company. — This news falls less than a month …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
WWDC 2013 Roundup: iOS 7, OS X 10.9, MacBooks, ‘Genius-like’ Radio app (plus new tidbits) — By this time in 2012, Apple had taken the stage and dominated the news cycle multiple times to announce products like a new iPad, Apple TV, new Mac operating system, and various other software …
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Neowin, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks and CNET
| Jason Snell / Macworld: |
Meet Vesper, a notes app with an all-star development team — Three people you may have heard of—writer John Gruber, developer Brent Simmons, and designer Dave Wiskus—have joined forces to create Q Branch, an app development company whose first product is a $5 iPhone app called Vesper.
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iMore and The Mac Observer
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Wikimedia readies its ‘WYSIWYG’ visual editor for English-language Wikipedia articles starting early July — It's been a long time coming, but the Wikimedia Foundation is finally on the cusp of rolling out its visual ‘WYSIWYG’ editor for all Wikipedia users.
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| Michael Isikoff / Open Channel: |
Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns, took internal documents, officials say — Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government will be at the top of the U.S. agenda when President Obama meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping Friday in California. Chinese officials deny any role in the cyberattacks …
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