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June 15, 2014, 11:55 AM

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New York Times:

Profile of Tim Cook describes him as projecting “quiet consideration” towards design, details his involvement in iWatch development, more — Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn't forget.

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Greg Miller / Washington Post:

U.S. officials scrambled to nab Snowden, hoping he would take a wrong step. He didn't. — While Edward Snowden was trapped in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport last year, U.S. officials were confronting their own dearth of options in the White House Situation Room.

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Mozilla under fire: Inside the 9-day reign of fallen CEO Brendan Eich — On a Friday night flight home to San Francisco from Boston in March, Brendan Eich should have been unwinding. It was the end of his first week as chief executive of Mozilla, the nonprofit organization …

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Bloomberg:

US officials describe Chinese hacks of US utilities as scouting missions, cyberwar practice — UglyGorilla Hack of U.S. Utility Exposes Cyberwar Threat — Somewhere in China, a man typed his user name, “ghost,” and password, “hijack,” and proceeded to rifle the computers of a utility in the Northeastern U.S.

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Nellie Bowles / Re/code:

Three LA Boys: Snapchat's Evan Spiegel, Tinder's Sean Rad and Whisper's Michael Heyward … Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snapchat; Sean Rad, co-founder and CEO of Tinder; and Michael Heyward, co-founder and CEO of Whisper have become, in many ways, the young princes of Los Angeles tech.

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Christina Farr / Reuters:

Drchrono launches Glass app to help doctors record and store consultations and surgeries — Startup launches ‘first wearable health record’ for Google Glass — (Reuters) - Google Inc's futuristic eyeglasses are finding their way into hospitals and clinics throughout the United States.

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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:

Google Street Art Project works with rightsholders to compile graffiti images from Street View — Google Adds Graffiti to Its Art Portfolio — PARIS — There's a portrait of an anonymous Chinese man chiseled into a wall in Shanghai, a colorful mural in Atlanta and black-and-white photographs …

More: The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET News, The Register and Laughing Squid

Dell Cameron / Daily Dot:

Massive security flaws allowed for Stratfor hack, leaked report reveals — The intelligence firm at the center of a notorious cybersecurity breach that affected top government officials failed to institute standard security measures prior to the attack, according to a newly leaked report.

Tweets: @peterwsinger, @edpilkington, @johnfontana, @danstuckey and @apblake. Thanks:@dailydot

Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

Google Glass scorned again as The Daily Show convenes and mocks a panel of notable “Glassholes” — VIDEO: The Daily Show Mocks Google Glass (and Glass Explorers) — Comedy Central's The Daily Show finally got around to skewering Google Glass (and Glass Explorers) on Thursday night's show.

Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times:

Some worry China's expanded blocking of Google services could persist for the long term — China broadens crackdown on Google services — When Yi Ran is working on new designs for his Yinshen Clothing company, he often turns to Google to search for pictures to use as inspiration.

Thanks:@dannysullivan

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