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July 1, 2014, 1:15 PM

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Washington Post:

New Snowden documents show FISA court authorized NSA to spy on all but four foreign countries — Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show — Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information …

More: TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Techdirt and The Times of Israel

Tweets: @csoghoian, @majid_agha, @jesselynradack and @trevortimm

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 …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

FBI, CIA Use Backdoor Searches To Warrentlessly Spy On Americans' Communications

More: Vox, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, The Hill and Nextgov. Tweets: @trevortimm

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: TheStreet.com, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, App Advice, Mashable, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, MacNN, 9to5Mac, iMore, SeekingAlpha.com, Ubergizmo and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @cdixon

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Twitter names ex-Goldman banker Anthony Noto CFO, Mike Gupta now Head of Strategic Investments — Twitter CFO Steps Down and Is Replaced By Banker Who Took Company Public — Twitter said in a filing today that it's CFO Mike Gupta was shifting his job to become an SVP of strategic investments.

More: New York Times, The Technology Chronicles, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Quartz, Softpedia News and Reuters

Tweets: @mgupta, @dickc, @obrien, @mikeisaac, @howardlindzon, @wsjd, @sacca and @carlquintanilla

Matt Thomlinson / TechNet Blogs:

Microsoft adds Transport Layer Security to Outlook.com, Perfect Forward Secrecy encryption support to Outlook.com and OneDrive — Advancing our encryption and transparency efforts — Vice President, Trustworthy Computing Security, Microsoft — In December, we announced our commitment …

More: CNET, iMore, Engadget, ZDNet, PC World, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Inquirer, Gigaom, GeekWire, Softpedia News, Neowin, WinBeta and Microsoft Security Blog

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: USA Today, GadgeTell, AllTwitter, TechSpot, CNET, Entrepreneur, The Register, State of Digital, memeburn, SocialTimes, WebProNews, Yahoo Tech, Marketing Land, Ubergizmo and Mashable

Tweets: @caseynewton and @jbruin

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Tumblr “shadow CEO” Derek Gottfrid is out according to internal email from David Karp — One The Most Important People At Tumblr — Derek Gottfrid — Is Out Of The Company — A key Tumblr employee is out of the company. — Derek Gottfrid, who joined from the New York Times in 2010 …

More: VentureBeat

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Android Wear review: Fast notifications, accurate voice commands, but still feels like a beta — Android Wear software review: Smartwatch software that doesn't suck — Google wearables: take two. — Believe it or not, Google has been a leader in the wearables space for some time with Google Glass.

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, eWeek and The Verge

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: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, The Register, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, The Laboratorium, SlashGear, ZDNet, Washington Post, Guardian, Wired, Daily Dot, Lifehacker, BGR, Tech Times, World of Psychology, Mashable, Ars Technica, WebProNews, Business Insider, New Statesman, Slate, TechnoBuffalo, ExtremeTech and Businessweek

Tweets: @kashhill and @jayrosen_nyu

Thanks:@aatilley

Mike Kaplinskiy / Vine blog:

Vine introduces ‘loop count’ popularity indicator, updates home and activity feeds — Introducing Loop Counts — Starting today, you'll see loop counts on Vines in our iOS and Android mobile apps and on the web. Loop counts indicate how many times people have looped a video …

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Gigaom. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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: Samsung Mobile Press, LAPTOP Magazine, InfoWorld, Business Insider, DailyTech, BetaNews, Pocketnow, Phones Review, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Engadget, Neowin, Digital Trends, CNET, 9to5Google and The Verge

David Meyer / Gigaom:

UPDATED: PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to “technical problem” — The Switzerland-based startup, established by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, couldn't access money that crowdfunding backers have given it, because PayPal had frozen its account.

More: ProtonMail Blog, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Daily Dot, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Register, RT, Crowdfund Insider, Softpedia News and bit-tech.net

Tweets: @mattblaze, @superglaze and @cdixon

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 and The Independent. Tweets: @superglaze, @farman and @robmoff

Conner Forrest / TechRepublic:

How the ‘PayPal Mafia’ redefined success in Silicon Valley — The “PayPal Mafia” is no mafia at all. It's a diaspora. “Basically, we were kicked out of our homeland and they burned down our temple. So, we were scattered to the four corners of the globe, and we had to make new homes.”

Tweets: @jeffweiner, @davidsacks, @stilenius, @mdudas and @hkanji

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Databricks announces a Spark cloud and $33M in venture capital — Databricks, the company trying to commercialize the Apache Spark data-processing framework, announced on Monday at the second-annual Spark Summit that it has raised $33 million in series B venture capital …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, insideBIGDATA, InformationWeek, The Register, bizjournals, VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

US book publishers now make more money from online sales than physical stores — Brick-and-mortar book stores have clearly been on the decline for a while — just look at Barnes & Noble's rocky finances. However, there's now some tangible evidence that the pendulum has swung in favor of internet-based sales.

More: BISG, The Verge, GeekWire, Good E-Reader, Yahoo Finance and Publishers Weekly. Thanks:@srikardr

Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

Apple Launches 2014 ‘Back to School’ Promotion with Apple Store Gift Cards Up to $100 — As indicated yesterday, Apple today launched its annual Back to School promotion offering qualified educational purchasers an Apple Store gift card of $100 with the purchase of a new Mac or a $50 gift card with the purchase of an iPad or iPhone.

More: ifoAppleStore, Macworld, Gigaom, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, iMore, TUAW, TUAW, MacDailyNews and App Advice. Thanks:@chadvictory

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: @howardlindzon, @stevesi and @danprimack

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 …

Biz Carson / Gigaom:

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

More: Guardian, PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, Softpedia News and Reuters

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