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June 22, 2013, 12:25 PM

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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.

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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 …

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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, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, 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, iClarified, 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 …

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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.

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.

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 and Engadget

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

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 …

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