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Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying  —  Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union …
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Connecting The PRISM Dots: My New Theory  —  The PRISM story firmly changed course yesterday when The Guardian published a video interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  If you haven't watched the interview, you should.  It's historic and fascinating.
New York Times:
How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story  —  WASHINGTON — The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic  —  Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even IF It Intrudes on Privacy  —  OVERVIEW  —  A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
The design of iOS 7: simply confusing  —  The new iOS is better and worse all at once  —  What I saw today at Apple's annual WWDC event in the new iOS 7 was a radical departure from the previous design of the company's operating system — what CEO Tim Cook called “a stunning new user interface.”
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Apple Unveils iOS 7
Eric Johnson / AllThingsD:
Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation 4 Will Cost $399, Launch “This Holiday Season” — With More Than Just Games in Tow  —  The PlayStation 4 will cost $399 and will go on sale “this holiday season,” Sony announced at its E3 press event tonight in Los Angeles.  —  That's $100 less than the Xbox One …
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Analysis: The one-two combo Sony used to knock Microsoft out of E3 2013  —  Used game support and lower-priced hardware create a PR coup.  —  Over the past ten years attending events like E3 and the Game Developers Conference, I have been to at least 40 press conferences held by console makers or game publishers both major and minor.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Hands-on with Sony's PlayStation 4 and DualShock controller  —  Several months after it was first revealed, we now know what Sony's PlayStation 4 looks like, and surprise: it's a black box.  While we still haven't gotten to see the PlayStation 4 in action, we've gotten a quick look at both it and the DualShock 4, Sony's new controller.
Samit Sarkar / Polygon:
PlayStation 4 will have no used game restrictions or online requirements
AppleInsider:
All Macs capable of running OS X Mountain Lion likely compatible with OS X 10.9 Mavericks  —  According to the release notes accompanying Monday's OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview, the OS is compatible with all Macs able to run the current version of Apple's desktop operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside  —  This morning Apple updated its MacBook Air to Intel's Haswell ULT silicon.  The chassis itself didn't get any updates, nor did the displays.  Both the 11 and 13 inch models retain their non-Retina 1366 x 768 and 1440 x 900 displays.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Next-generation Apple Mac Pro eyes-on at WWDC 2013 (video)  —  Historically, Apple hasn't been one to offer sneak peeks of anything.  That changed today with the next-generation Mac Pro — likely a function of the fact that teasing such a machine couldn't possibly weaken sales of a desktop …
Dara Kerr / CNET:
Google to be banned in Pakistan if it doesn't clean up YouTube  —  The country's new IT minister reportedly says the Web giant must remove “blasphemous and objectionable material” from its video sharing site, or face serious consequences.  —  With YouTube already shuttered in Pakistan …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Twitter #music has its own ‘trending’ station on iTunes Radio  —  Here's something small, but interesting from Apple's announcement last night of iTunes Radio.  It seems Twitter is getting its own station within the streaming radio service.  Check the image on the right …
TechCrunch:
Apple Unveils iTunes Radio, A Streaming Music Service With The Full Power Of The iTunes Library

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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
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