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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Apple's iPhone Trade-in Program Is Already Being Piloted, Here's How It Works  —  Apple is about to introduce an iPhone trade-in program that will allow users to walk into a Retail store and trade up from an old model to a new one.  We've heard some interesting details about the way that the program …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple planning to launch iPhone trade-in program in September  —  Apple is beginning final preparations to launch an iPhone trade-in program in its retail stores as soon as next month, according to sources with knowledge of the initiative.  This trade-in program will allow customers …
Kurt Wagner / Mashable:
Facebook Unveils Shared Photo Albums  —  A picture's worth a thousand words, and now Facebook is letting others add to your conversation.  —  The world's largest social network announced shared photo albums on Monday, a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album.
NBC News:
How Snowden did it  —  When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn't need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer firewall.  —  All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives …
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
AllThingsD nears split with Dow Jones  —  Maybe the ‘D’ in AllThingsD should stand for ‘Deal.’  —  FORTUNE — The future of influential tech website All Things Digital is close to being decided.  —  Reuters reported in February that AllThingsD co-executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg …
Justine Sharrock / BuzzFeed:
The Rise And Fall Of A Startup Mansion  —  Startups, pizza, ego, beer, filth.  The collapse of a hacker house and the battle for Silicon Valley's soul.  —  a1.muscache.com  —  When William Hsu first moved to San Francisco to work in startups, he got a one-bedroom apartment.
Tweets: @jwherrman.  Thanks:@mattlynley
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
“thereisnofatebutwhat­wemake” — Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords  —  For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters.  It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying …
More: ZDNet.  Tweets: @robhale77 and @lylepratt
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
ARM Acquires Internet Of Things Startup Sensinode To Move Beyond Tablets And Phones  —  As more reports of ARM-based Windows and Apple devices continue to fill the airwaves — the latest being reports of a Surface 2 and Nokia's first Windows tablet, along with upcoming iPhone handsets …
Julian Assange / The Stringer:
Google and the NSA: Who's holding the ‘s**t-bag’ now?  —  It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system.  —  So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy?
Lucian Constantin / PC World:
Following Google's lead, Mozilla considers rejecting long-lived digital certificates  —  Mozilla is considering the possibility of rejecting as invalid SSL certificates issued after July 1, 2012, with a validity period of more than 60 months.  Google already made the decision to block …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Dell intros new Latitude business laptops, including a flagship Ultrabook (hands-on)  —  Fun fact: the XPS 13 Ultrabook we liked so much also happens to be one of Dell's best-selling products.  It's been so successful, in fact, that even large corporations have been thinking of issuing it to their employees …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Sirius: a 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet that looks like a Lumia  —  Nokia is preparing to back Windows RT by launching a 10.1-inch tablet soon.  Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the tablet, codenamed Sirius, will be launched shortly.
Mike Wehner / TUAW:
U.S. government finds 0.7% of all mobile malware affects iOS, while Android accounts for 79%  —  A cautionary memo put out by the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice shows that, according to the government's findings, only 0.7 percent of all mobile malware is designed to take advantage of iOS.
Todd Hoff / High Scalability:
Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month  —  Jeremy Edberg, the first paid employee at reddit, teaches us a lot about how to create a successful social site in a really good talk he gave at the RAMP conference.  Watch it here at Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion-Pitfalls and Lessons.
Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat:
Samsung Exec confirms Note III and Galaxy Gear launch for September 4th (next week!)  —  Lee Young-hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times that Samsung will be unveiling the Galaxy Note III and Galaxy Gear smartwatch on September 4th.

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