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Robert McMillan / Wired:

Recent hires suggest Apple is forming its own speech recognition team for a neural-net-boosted Siri — Siri Will Soon Understand You a Whole Lot Better — It all started at a small academic get-together in Whistler, British Columbia. — The topic was speech recognition …

More: AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacNN, App Advice, Ubergizmo and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @cdixon

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

“Buy Now” Buttons Start Appearing in Tweets. Is Twitter Shopping Finally Here? — Two things stand out about the sneakers pictured above in a screenshot from Twitter. First, their list price is a cool $170 million (though we imagine that's a glitch). — Second, there's a “Buy now” button included in the tweet.

More: memeburn, State of Digital, Marketing Land, Ubergizmo, CNET and Mashable

Tweets: @jbruin and @caseynewton

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Twitter Scoops Up AdTech Firm Tap Commerce for Around $100 Million — Twitter is in the process of acquiring Tap Commerce, a New York-based mobile advertising technology firm, according to sources familiar with the situation. The deal is expected to be announced later on Monday.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Rolls Out App Install And Engagement Ads, And New Click Pricing, Globally

More: The Twitter Blog, AdAge, 9to5Mac, Pocket Gamer.biz, PandoDaily, The Next Web, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, Business Insider and App Advice

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Samsung reveals the mini version of its Galaxy S5 smartphone, will go on sale in Russia first — Samsung has taken the wraps off the mini version of its flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone. The 4.5-inch Galaxy S5 mini has pretty much the same features as its parent device, featuring IP67 certification …

More: 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, Samsung Mobile Press and Softpedia News

ProPublica:

Bulk or targeted? Foreign or domestic? This handy diagram plots the answer for the NSA programs revealed this past year — The NSA Revelations All in One Chart — This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted …

More: Gizmodo and VentureBeat. Tweets: @loisbeckett and @propublica

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

More details on Microsoft's desktop-focused Windows ‘Threshold’ release; public preview expected in fall 2014, release in spring 2015 — Windows ‘Threshold’: More on Microsoft's plan to win over Windows 7 users — Summary: One of Microsoft's main goals with 'Threshold …

Tom Huddleston Jr / Fortune:

Tinder's former marketing VP Whitney Wolfe sues company for sexual discrimination, claims co-founder title removed — Tinder has a date with sexual discrimination suit — Dating app Tinder has been hit with a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by its former vice president of marketing.

More: USA Today, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, TMZ.com, NEWS.com.au, Reuters, TIME, Valleywag, LAist, Daily Dot and Reuters. Tweets: @davidu

Paulo Golgher / Orkut Blog:

Google to shut down Orkut on September 30, will create archive of all public communities — Tchau Orkut — Ten years ago, Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking. Built as a “20 percent” project, Orkut communities started conversations, and forged connections, that had never existed before.

Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk:

Silk Road auction: 45 bidders, 63 total bids; SecondMarket was outbid on all blocks — Bitcoin Price Surges as Silk Road Auction Spurs Investor Interest — The US Marshals Service (USMS) has begun to inform participating investors as to the official results of its 27th June auction …

More: NEWSBTC

Biz Carson / Gigaom:

Bitcoin price jumps six percent as US Marshals' auction comes to a close

More: PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, Reuters and Business Insider

Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog:

Competing with LinkedIn and the Case Against Unbundling — I've been thinking about LinkedIn quite a bit lately. I think LinkedIn is really interesting because in many ways I think it is one of the most durable and hard to disrupt companies that sit at the intersection of SaaS and social networking.

Tweets: @stevesi and @danprimack

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Facebook Added ‘Research’ To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study — Unless you've spent the last couple of days in a Faraday pouch under a rock, you've heard about Facebook's controversial ‘emotion manipulation’ study. Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer ran an experiment …

More: ReadWrite, Gigaom, New Statesman, Business Insider, ExtremeTech, Daily Dot, ZDNet, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, PandoDaily, Guardian, TODAY, USA Today, Salon, Washington Post, WebProNews, Computerworld, Valleywag, POPSUGAR, AllFacebook, Mission Loc@l, PSFK, Wall Street Journal, VacuousMinx, WindowsITPro, Technabob and The Register

Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu and @kashhill

Thanks:@aatilley

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Millions of dynamic DNS users suffer after Microsoft seizes No-IP domains — Legitimate users caught in legal fire designed to take down botnets. — Millions of legitimate servers that rely on dynamic domain name services from No-IP.com suffered outages on Monday after Microsoft seized 22 domain names …

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, No-IP Blog, Inquirer, Krebs on Security, Softpedia News, TechNet Blogs, CyberCrime & Doing Time, Securelist / Blog, Network World, The Register, Reuters and Microsoft Security Blog

Tweets: @ckindel, @csoghoian, @rodgertq and @csoghoian

Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:

Some LA schools choosing between six different laptops for students after botched iPad rollout — LAUSD shifts gears on technology for students — Los Angeles school district officials have allowed a group of high schools to choose from among six different laptop computers for their students …

More: AppleInsider, Engadget, PadGadget, Electronista, New York Times, CNET, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, VentureBeat, DailyTech, Digital Trends, Neowin and App Advice. Thanks:@obrien

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple rolls out two-step verification for iCloud.com Web apps — Apple appears to be testing out a new implementation of its two-factor Apple ID authentication system with iCloud.com, requiring users who have the additional layer of security enabled to enter a special code before accessing the Web apps.

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, iMore and MacStories. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81

Samit Sarkar / Polygon:

Ouya now selling 12-month pass to 800 games for $59.99 — Ouya launched a limited deal today, the All-Access Pass, which gives customers 12 months' worth of access to almost all games on the platform for $59.99. — According to its listing on the Ouya Shop, the All-Access Pass covers …

More: Gamasutra, Engadget, Electronista, Connectedly, CNET, Develop Feed, Liliputing, VentureBeat, Hardcore Gamer, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Android Police and Re/code

Tweets: @necrosofty and @mikebithell

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

Over $2.2B invested in digital health startups this year, already exceeds 2013 total of $1.97B — Digital health startups have taken $2.2B in funding so far in 2014, already besting 2013 total (report) — The digital health space has continued to heat up, and it's looking like 2014 will be a big year for investment in the space.

More: Re/code and mobihealthnews

Steve Johnson / Mercury News:

Hewlett-Packard and shareholders reach settlement in suit over Autonomy deal — PALO ALTO — In a victory for Hewlett-Packard, the tech giant said Monday it has tentatively reached a settlement in a federal shareholder lawsuit over its ill-fated purchase of British software company Autonomy …

More: ZDNet, Marketwired, Reuters, Re/code, NASDAQ.com and CNET

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

CoreOS Raises $8M Series A Round, Launches Managed Linux As A Service — CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital.

More: Gigaom, PR Newswire, InformationWeek, The Register, eWeek, InfoWorld, Network World, CoreOS Blog and VentureBeat

David Meyer / Gigaom:

The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal — The .io country code top-level domain is pretty popular right now, particularly among tech startups that want to take advantage of the snappy input/output reference and the relative availability of names …

More: Guardian, The Independent and Domain Name Wire

Tweets: @superglaze and @robmoff

Reuters:

Automakers incrementally approach self-driving cars, see dangers to Google's eagerness — Google, Detroit diverge on road map for self-driving cars — (Reuters) - In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with several of the world's largest car makers …

More: DailyTech and SlashGear

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