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June 23, 2013, 12:20 AM

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Amir Efrati / Digits:

Google Confirms Antitrust Review of Waze Deal — Google on Saturday confirmed that it has been contacted by lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission over the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of the mobile navigation company Waze, which closed in mid-June.

Jake Miller / CBS News:

White House: “We expect” Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition — White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told CBS News Saturday that the U.S. government has asked Hong Kong authorities to extradite Edward Snowden, the man behind the recent leaks of classified government surveillance programs …

More: South China Morning Post, VentureBeat, RT, The Verge, CNET, Reuters, AllThingsD and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

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 …

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

How Web mail providers leave door open for NSA surveillance — Protecting users' e-mail privacy from the National Security Agency and other intelligence services means using encryption. But with the exception of Google, few companies do everything they can. — One of Google's massive data centers.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation:

In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on Without A Warrant

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

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

More: Softpedia News, iDigital Times, BetaNews, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, CNET, IntoMobile, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Digits, iMore, Business Insider, The Next Web and Gizmodo

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, Ars Technica and Mashable

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, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, Fortune, Reuters, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, iClarified and Digits

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Project Loon: Google's biggest obstacle isn't technology. It's politics — The ballon-powered network know as Loon may be one of Google's famed moon shots, but the biggest issues facing the project are grounded right here on Earth. This won't just be a major technological feat for Google.

More: IntoMobile, Softpedia News and Search Engine Roundtable

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

RIP Snapjoy: The Dropbox-Acquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down — Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as in an email it's currently sending …

More: Snapjoy Blog and TechWhack

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, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, AppleInsider, iClarified, AppleTell, Phones Review, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

After five years, social music player TuneWiki announces plans to shut down on June 28 — Social music player TuneWiki has announced it will be shutting down on June 28, 2013. The five-year-old company wouldn't disclose a reason for its decision, but it did thank its loyal fans for their support.

More: TuneWiki, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, TechWhack and Engadget

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

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