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May 13, 2014, 8:30 AM

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

NSA routinely receives or intercepts US-made routers and servers to implant backdoors before international shipping — how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers — The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas - even though the US government …

More: TechCrunch, Computerworld, Inquirer, CNET News, The Register, The Hacker News, Daily Dot, Gigaom, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal and SlashGear. Tweets: @headhntr

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Coming soon, according to internal Microsoft sources: two fewer white dots on this promotional card. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change …

More: The Verge, Polygon, Gearburn, VG247, Neowin, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Windows Phone Central, destructoid and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

EU top court upholds “right to be forgotten”, says Google must edit sensitive search results — Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet — People can ask Google to delete sensitive information from its Internet search results, Europe's top court said on Tuesday.

More: Associated Press, CNET News, New York Times, The Next Web, Inquirer, Washington Post, ZDNet, Engadget, Re/code, The Verge, The Register, BBC, Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo. Tweets: @qz. See also Mediagazer

Paul Rosania / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter's new mute feature lets you hide users from your home timeline — Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute — Today we're beginning to introduce a new account feature called mute to people who use our iPhone and Android apps and twitter.com.

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Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Twitter's New Mute Feature Means Brand Visibility Is No Sure Thing

More: Softpedia News, BetaNews and ClickZ

Benjamin Mako Hill / copyrighteous:

Even if you host your own email server, Google will end up capturing about half of your emails — Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours — For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence.

More: The Guardian and Boing Boing. Tweets: @bcrypt and @dangillmor

Yinka Adegoke / Billboard:

Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre could be unveiled as Apple executives at WWDC, deal to be announced later this week — Apple May Unveil Iovine, Dr. Dre Exec Appointments at June Conference — Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits at its Worldwide Developers' Conference in June …

More: The Lefsetz Letter, Telegraph, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, Electronista, MacRumors, The Verge and App Advice. Tweets: @jyarow

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple interested in Beats for paid streaming conversion rate, plans to improve its headphones

More: iPhone Hacks, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, ZDNet and Patently Apple

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, launches $129 Moto E — Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, introduces an even cheaper Moto E — Shipping with Android 4.4 and a guaranteed upgrade to the next major version of Android — The Moto G is the best selling smartphone in Motorola history.

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days — In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported 12 million downloads in early April, and 27 million today. — That's a massive figure.

More: Business Insider, Inquirer, TechEye, BetaNews, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, GeekWire and Gotta Be Mobile

The Cryptocurrency Times:

The popular online wallet Dogevault is offline, large amounts of Dogecoin appear to have been stolen — Dogevault is a popular online wallet, where people can store and send Dogecoin. It provides no advantage over a normal Dogecoin wallet however, and generally online wallets are regarded as risky …

More: Softpedia News, Softpedia News, CNET News and The Register

Dale Russakoff / New Yorker:

Zuckerberg's $100M pledge in 2010 to reform Newark schools has had little benefit to students — SCHOOLED - Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's schools. They got an education. — Late one night in December, 2009, a black Chevy Tahoe in a caravan …

More: Salon and The Verge. Tweets: @underoak, @russellbrandom, @moneyries, @tonyromm, @andrewverte and @tonyromm

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

AT&T customers can connect their GM 4G cars to shared data plans for $10 a month — If you were thinking about buying one of General Motors' new-fangled 4G cars this summer but were wondering how much that LTE connectivity would cost you, then GM and AT&T today provided an answer.

More: GM Media News, The Verge, detroitnews.com, Detroit Free Press, Ubergizmo, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, PC Magazine, Re/code, FierceWireless, Android Police, ZDNet, CNET News, SlashGear and Engadget

Steven Melendez / Motherboard:

How Non-Profits Are Cashing In on the Cryptocurrency Boom — Bitcoin is often discussed as the backbone of the online drug trade, an interesting speculative investment, or simply a futuristic way to order pizza. But proponents say the cryptocurrency also has great potential for the nonprofit world.

Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld:

Apple working on a JavaScript accelerator for WebKit which doesn't require the use of asm.js — Apple has its own JavaScript accelerator in the works — Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost, and it doesn't require the use of asm.js for its speed improvements

More: MacNN, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and MacRumors

Jackie Dove / The Next Web:

Moju: a Vine-like app for sharing 24-frame animated photos viewed by twisting your iPhone left to right — Moju, a self-styled Instagram on steroids, showcases photos with an animated twist — There's still images and video; there's even multimedia images with sound effects …

More: TechCrunch and Xconomy. Tweets: @msg

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's ‘Mohoro’ Windows-as-a-service released as a public preview — Summary: Microsoft is entering the desktop-as-a-service space with its new Azure Remote App service, which is available as a free public preview. — Microsoft is releasing its desktop-as-a-service, codenamd 'Mohoro," in public preview form as of today, May 12.

More: The Register, The Official Microsoft Blog, CITEworld and ZDNet

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Visual Studio goes cross platform with Cordova integration from Microsoft

More: Somasegar's blog, The Register and GeekWire

Bloomberg:

Facebook Said to Take Steps to Open a China Sales Office — Facebook Inc. (FB) is taking steps to open a sales office in China to work with local advertisers, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that would put the social network's employees in the country for the first time …

More: The Next Web, Tech in Asia, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and AllFacebook. Tweets: @sarahfrier

Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:

Uber brings a cheaper SUV service, UberXL, to San Francisco — Above: An Uber SUV. Not to be confused with the much cheaper UberXL SUV. — For those times when the party is not just breaking up, but moving to a whole new location, the typical Uber car might feel a little cramped.

More: Uber Blog, Gizmodo, VBProfiles, SlashGear, bizjournals and Tech Chronicles

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