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June 22, 2013, 11:10 AM

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Facebook Security:

Important Message from Facebook's White Hat Program — At Facebook, we take people's privacy seriously, and we strive to protect people's information to the very best of our ability. We implement many safeguards, hire the brightest engineers and train them to ensure we have only high-quality code behind …

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Facebook Security Bug Exposed Personal Account Information, Emails And Phone Numbers, Six Million Accounts Affected — A Facebook security bug exposed users' personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected 6 million accounts.

More: Softpedia News, BetaNews, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, CNET, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Digits, iMore, Business Insider, The Next Web and Gizmodo

Washington Post:

U.S. charges Snowden with espionage — Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain …

More: The Next Web, The Verge, Network World, SlashGear, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, CNET, Guardian, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Register, Quartz, Hit & Run and Poynter

Tweets: @arimelber and @kashhill

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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple Board Modifies Tim Cook CEO Bonus Stock Award to Be More Performance Based — Apple's Board of Directors has elected to modify the award of restricted stock that Tim Cook received after being promoted to CEO in August 2011. The modification, made at Cook's request …

More: AllThingsD, TUAW, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, CNET, Reuters, The Verge, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Reuters, iClarified and Digits

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer's Gmail — The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week.

More: The Verge and Ars Technica

Husain Sumra / MacRumors:

Walmart to Discount iPhone 5 By $60 Beginning Saturday — On Saturday, Walmart will begin offering the iPhone 5 at a $60 discount (from $189 to $129) and the iPhone 4S at a $50 discount (from $89 to $39), reports Mashable. The prices are permanent, available only in-store and require signing …

More: Mashable, Phones Review, AppleTell, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Marissa Mayer Has Quietly Cut 1,000 Jobs At Yahoo — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has cut 1,000 jobs since she joined the company almost a year ago. — According to Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic, she's done it “through a combination of attrition and ramped-up performance management …

More: Reuters and bizjournals. See also Mediagazer

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

AOL is launching a Google Reader replacement Monday: ‘All your favorite websites, in one place’ — As the end of Google Reader nears, AOL is planning to announce its own alternative to the service: “AOL Reader.” — As you can see on the current landing page for the service, which is public …

More: iMore, Engadget, App Advice, The Digital Reader, BetaNews, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, eWeek, PC Magazine, CNET, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Mashable, Betabeat, Pocket-lint, ITworld.com, Softpedia News, WebProNews, The Verge, Macgasm and Gizmodo. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

Instagram users upload 5M videos in first 24 hours — Just a day after release, video sharing is already proving so popular an activity on the app that it would take you years to watch all the clips uploaded to the service. — Instagram users have embraced the application's …

More: BGR, Featured stories, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, Examiner, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, Android Community, 9to5Google, WebProNews, App Advice and MobileSyrup.com

Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac:

New iPhone 5S photos unfortunately reveal little new about the device — MacRumors has allegedly gotten their hands on photos of what appear to the rear shell and components of the rumored iPhone 5S. While these photos reveal little new about the device, they provide a closer picture at what we might see from Apple later this year.

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on Without A Warrant — The Guardian published a new batch of secret leaked FISA court and NSA documents yesterday, which detail the particulars of how government has been accessing Americans' emails without a warrant, in violation of the Constitution.

More: Engadget, SlashGear, Web Host Industry Review, TechPresident, InfoWorld, Washington Post, Forbes and Salon

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Yelp now matches photos and reviews by the same user on desktop and mobile — Yelp today announced a small but noteworthy improvement to its service: it will now match reviews and photos made by the same user. As a result, visual and textual content will now appear together, both on the desktop and mobile versions of Yelp.

More: Yelp Official Blog, PC Magazine and WebProNews

Guardian:

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications — Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal

More: Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Associated Press, The Next Web, Mashable, Ars Technica, dailywireless.org, CNET, Computerworld, The Register, The Verge, Techdirt, Forbes, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Light Reading, Gawker, RT and Boing Boing

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