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June 1, 2014, 11:10 AM

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New York Times:

NSA has collected millions of images of faces from intercepted communications for use in facial recognition — N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images — The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through …

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Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Registry hack enables continued updates for Windows XP — Summary: A single registry setting makes Windows Update think your XP system is Windows XP POSReady, which will receive updates for another five years. — As reported by Wayne Williams at Betanews and confirmed by us …

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Arikia Millikan / Medium:

One of Medium's first paid Collection Editors leaves the platform after one year, citing wage disparity, rocky product changes, poor analytics, more — LadyBits' First and Last Year on Medium — So long, folks. It's been real. — In May of 2013, I signed on as a Collection Editor with Medium to launch LadyBits on Medium.

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Mia Shanley / Reuters:

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden to serve outstanding sentence for copyright violation — Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden to serve copyright violation sentence — (Reuters) - One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden …

More: TorrentFreak, AfterDawn.com, Expressen, The Verge, revolution-news.com, Neowin and Ars Technica. Tweets: @mlowdi

Adam Satariano / Businessweek:

Apple's Beats Deal Sealed by Ex-Banker Adrian Perica — Apple (AAPL) is arguably the most famous company in the world, but its top dealmaker prefers to stay in the shadows. Adrian Perica, a former Goldman Sachs (GS) banker, sometimes holds meetings with executives of companies he's interested …

More: TUAW and Forbes. Tweets: @bw. Thanks:@srikardr

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

WWDC 2014 Roundup: Enhanced iOS 8, redesigned OS X 10.10, new hardware (plus fresh details) — Despite Apple CEO Tim Cook teasing that Apple would introduce new products “across 2014,” so far this year the company has simply released a cheaper version of the iPhone 5c in select markets …

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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple's WWDC banners show iOS 8, next OS X are coming

Len Sherman / Fortune:

Amazon should be viewed as a fierce competitor in its dispute with publisher Hachette — Amazon should be viewed as a fierce competitor in its dispute with publisher Hachette. — FORTUNE - As a fight over ebook pricing intensifies between French book publisher Hachette and online retailer Amazon …

More: New York Times, stratechery, New York Times and Fortune. Tweets: @pmarca

Nitasha Tiku / New York Times:

Some educators believe gaming can get girls interested in coding, and mentors can be key — How to Get Girls Into Coding — WHEN I was 7 years old, I knew the capitals of most major countries and their currencies. I had to, if I wanted to track down a devious criminal mastermind in the computer game …

More: adafruit industries blog. Tweets: @caroljago, @jessicalustig, @pippinbarr, @jenniferhollett and @jessicalustig

Jessica Pressler / New York Magazine:

Silicon Valley's Laundry-App Race — Silicon Valley is in a bubbly race to wash your clothes better, faster, and cooler. This is not a metaphor. Unless, you know, it is. — T — here was a problem with the cookies. — When Jordan Metzner and Juan Dulanto launched Washio …

Tweets: @michaelmoss, @sticka, @ibogost, @tdechant, @jyarow and @mbutterick

David Meyer / Gigaom:

In Chile, mobile carriers can no longer offer free Twitter, Facebook or WhatsApp — The Chilean telecommunications regulator Subtel has banned mobile operators from offering so-called zero-rated social media apps - services like Twitter and Facebook that, through deals with the carriers …

More: Quartz and PandoDaily

Felix Salmon / Medium:

Median net income for UberX drivers is decent: over $75k a year in NYC — The economics of “everyone's private driver” — What happens when cab drivers stop being employees and start being sole proprietors — Uber, the car service which launched as “everyone's private driver” …

More: Uber Blog, Forbes, PandoDaily, Valleywag and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @uber

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Brands can now set up shop inside Chinese messaging app WeChat — Popular messaging app WeChat has taken a step forward in evolving as a platform after it opened up an option on Weixin — the version of WeChat offered in China — for official account owners to set up shop within the app.

More: TechNode, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes and Tech in Asia

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