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June 23, 2013, 7:10 AM

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Lana Lam / South China Morning Post:

Snowden leaves Hong Kong on commercial flight to Moscow — Snowden is on a commercial flight to Russia but this will not be his final destination US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong and is on a commercial flight to Russia, but Moscow will not be his final destination, the South China Morning Post can confirm.

More: Guardian, New York Times, Computerworld, RT, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, Reuters and World News

Tweets: @wikileaks, @pankaj, @philiped, @ggreenwald, @mikedelic, @declanm, @samgustin and @declanm

Lana Lam / South China Morning Post:

Exclusive: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data: Edward Snowden — The US government is hacking Chinese mobile phone companies to steal millions of text messages, Edward Snowden has told the South China Morning Post. And the former National Security Agency contractor claims he has the evidence to prove it.

More: CNN, Guardian, VentureBeat, Forbes, Agence France Presse, The Next Web and TechPolitik. Thanks:@teawithcarl

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: RT, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, Reuters, AllThingsD and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Washington Post:

U.S. charges Snowden with espionage

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.

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.

Tweets: @mattcutts and @csoghoian

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 and Washington Post

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

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

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Adds Like Button To Mobile Messages, A One-Touch “OK” — “Alright”, “Yes”, and the much-hated “k” just got a visual redesign. Facebook's iOS and Android apps have rolled out the option in messages to reply with a one-tap thumbs-up Like button sticker.

Tweets: @joshconstine

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, TechWhack and App Advice

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

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

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