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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands  —  Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators' demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance …
CNET News:
OAuth, OpenID security flaw can be exploited to steal personal info, redirect users to unsafe sites  —  Serious security flaw in OAuth and OpenID discovered  —  Malicious attackers can use the ‘Covert Redirect’ vulnerability in the OAuth 2. and OpenID open-source login systems to steal …
More: Engadget and Tetraph
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Wild Rumor of Apple EarPods with Biometric Sensors Has Roots in Apple's Research  —  A seemingly wild rumor of Apple planning to launch new EarPods headphones with integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors has been making the rounds today after the claim was posted on anonymous information sharing platform Secret (via Reddit).
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Angela Ahrendts officially starts role as Apple's new Senior VP of Retail and Online Stores  —  Angela Ahrendts has officially taken the reins of Apple's new Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores.  Ahrendts's last day as the CEO of Burberry was yesterday, and Apple's website …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Google uses secret Android deals for illegal search monopoly, lawsuit claims  —  Google requires Samsung, HTC and other mobile device makers that use the Android operating system to reserve prime screen real estate for the search giant's own applications, according to a new class action complaint filed this week in California.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter is experimenting with a mute feature in its mobile apps  —  One of the most-requested features for Twitter's mobile apps may be on the cusp of arriving.  Users of the company's iOS and Android clients are now seeing an option to mute accounts that they follow, preventing another user's tweets …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Kantar data suggests UK smartphone penetration will reach a ceiling of 91% by Q3 2017  —  The death of the featurephone in the UK - and what's next  —  More than nine years of data on UK smartphones means we can forecast how many people might stick with ‘featurephones’ - like the popular Nokia 6310 …
More: Marketing Land.  Tweets: @charlesarthur
Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Wikipedia Has a New Boss: Lila Tretikov Named Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation  —  One of the most important sites on the Internet has a new leader: Lila Tretikov is the new executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and supports its volunteer corps.
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
iTunes Match Expands to Japan  —  Apple is expanding its iTunes Match service to Japan, according to a MacRumors tipster and the company's iTunes Match availability website.  The service, which costs ¥3,980 per year, allows iTunes users to match their existing iTunes libraries …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Meet Vhoto: This new iPhone app scans your videos to find amazing still photographs  —  There are amazing photos hidden in all of the those videos you've shot on your mobile phone over the past few years.  You just don't know it, or have a means to access them.
Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:
Samsung attempts to preempt Apple's Healthbook launch with a health-focused event of its own in late May  —  Samsung has just announced a health-focused event that will take place on May 28th, just days before Apple is set to unveil its next-generation mobile and desktop operating systems at WWDC …
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Obama panel supports warrant requirement for e-mail, cloud content  —  On Thursday, a panel commissioned by President Barack Obama to examine the implications of “big data” concluded that cloud and e-mail content should be constitutionally protected—a recommendation that Congress is seemingly unwilling to adopt.
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Uber gears up to launch ‘Uber Family’ service & eyes a new batch of cities (scoop)  —  A source tells us that Uber will soon launch “Uber Family,” a new service that caters to passengers with children.  Only the highest rated Uber drivers will be selected for the new program in New York.
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Verizon to FCC: Restrictions on airwaves auction are unjust  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc has urged U.S. regulators not to restrict how much it can buy in next year's auction of wireless spectrum, saying such a limit would subsidize the smallest national carriers and their foreign owners.
More: DSLreports and iMore
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon expands same-day delivery service to Dallas and San Francisco, extends ordering hours  —  Amazon Widens Same-Day Delivery Service  —  Amazon.com is making it even easier to skip the mall.  —  The e-commerce giant is set to broaden its same-day shipping service starting Thursday …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
OneNote for iPhone gets notebook creation and iOS 7 redesign, OneNote for Mac gets printing and saving to PDF  —  Microsoft today announced updates to both OneNote for iPhone and OneNote for Mac with a slew of new features.  You can download the former directly from Apple's App Store and the latter from the Mac App Store.
Eric Johnson / Re/code:
Oculus Allegedly Broke Intellectual Property Agreement, According to ZeniMax  —  Update: A previous version of this story embedded a PDF of the obtained NDA.  That embed has since been removed, at the request of the source who provided it.  —  Game publisher ZeniMax said Thursday morning …
More: The Verge and SlashGear
Ben Gilbert / Engadget:
John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left

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TMZ.com:
Sources: Paramount told the offices of LA Mayor Karen Bass and CA AG Rob Bonta the company would announce Tuesday it was leaving the state; no announcement came

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Music now lets creators insert video ads into their shows and expands video podcasts to subscribers in Canada, the UK, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan

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