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July 9, 2013, 5:00 AM
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Guardian:
Edward Snowden: ‘The US government will say I aided our enemies’ - video interview  —  In the second part of an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contemplates the reaction from the US government to his revelations …
Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed  —  Rejects Government's State Secret Privilege Claims in Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama  —  San Francisco - A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government's latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's …
Todd Hoff / High Scalability:
The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds  —  Toy solutions solving Twitter's “problems” are a favorite scalability trope.  Everybody has this idea that Twitter is easy.  With a little architectural hand waving …
More: Co.Labs.  Tweets: @matthewsinclair and @nikcub
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Microsoft Restructuring Set for Thursday  —  According to numerous sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is poised to unveil his plan to drastically restructure the tech giant this week.  And, while timing might change, sources said that the current plan is to make it public on Thursday.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
US Commerce Department destroyed $170,000 worth of TVs, mice, and more to root out malware  —  Though the US military has been preparing itself for digital warfare, other government agencies still seem to be struggling with how to handle basic cybersecurity: last year, the Department …
TechCrunch:
TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise  —  TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that runs a marketplace for outsourcing errands and temporary work projects, has laid off a number of staffers as part of a larger restructuring, TechCrunch has learned.
Bradley Brooks / Associated Press:
Brazil opens investigation into US spying … SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government began an investigation Monday into whether telecommunications firms operating in the country cooperated with the U.S. as part of a spying program that has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 1020 with 41-megapixel camera confirmed in sample photos from Joe Belfiore  —  Nokia's 41-megapixel Windows Phone will be called the Nokia Lumia 1020.  That's according to sample photos posted on Flickr by Microsoft Windows Phone manager Joe Belfiore.
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Google, Amazon and Apple Pump Up Ad Spending as Tablet Wars Heat Up  —  Looks like the battle for the hearts of consumer electronics lovers is increasingly playing out in advertisements.  —  Ad Age recently released its list of the Top 200 U.S. advertisers (subscription required) …
More: AdAge
Greg Bensinger / Digits:
Amazon's Diapers.com Founders Jump Ship  —  Amazon's Quidsi unit, home of Diapers.com and Soap.com, has lost its two co-founders.  —  Quidsi Chief Executive Marc Lore and Chief Operating Officer Vinit Bharara have both left the Jersey City, N.J. company.  In automated email replies …
Josh Barnes-Hoyt / Twitter Blog:
Direct message sync, mobile search improvements and more  —  People use Twitter to connect to the things and people they care about.  Today, we're making that even easier with a coordinated update for seven different apps: Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com and TweetDeck.
Cade Metz / Wired:
This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds  —  There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.  Her Google wardrobe included hoodies and t-shirts and blue jeans — standard engineering garb — never blouses, skirts, or dresses.
Chance Miller / 9to5Google:
Android distribution numbers updated for July, Jelly Bean now the most used version  —  As it does every month, Google has just updated the Android distribution data to reflect the month of July.  Jelly Bean is now running on 37.9 percent of devices, with 32.3 percent of those running Android 4.1.x.

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A US judge dismisses Penske Media's lawsuit against Google over traffic and revenue loss due to AI Overviews since Google never promised any traffic to Penske

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney plans a TV restructuring that is expected to result in more layoffs and consolidation of divisions as it pivots from linear TV toward streaming

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