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July 3, 2014, 12:30 PM

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone — Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger Finally Gets An iPad Version — Three years after Facebook acquired Beluga and turned it into Messenger for smartphones, its dedicated chat app today got a version specially designed for iPad rather than just running as an enlarged iPhone app.

More: VentureBeat, iMore, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.

Nick Summers / Businessweek:

How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe — Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …

More: Salon, socalTECH.com and Business Insider Thanks:@mattlynley

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Goldman says Google has blocked email with leaked client data — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) on Wednesday said Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has blocked access to an email containing confidential client data that a contractor sent to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake …

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Softpedia News and TIME

Chris Morris / CNBC:

Google bans porn from its ad network — Google is getting out of the porn advertising business. The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”

More: The Technology Chronicles, Search Engine Land, CNET, Business Insider, Guardian, The Verge, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, bizjournals, 9to5Google, Mercury News, Re/code and TIME. Tweets: @squawkalley

Mark Scott / New York Times:

London Transport Regulator Says Uber Can Legally Operate — LONDON - In the battle between Europe's taxi drivers and the ride-sharing service Uber, score one for Uber. — On Thursday, London's transport regulator said that Uber, the West Coast technology start-up that has faced protests …

More: Re/code, The Next Web, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNET and PandoDaily. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness

Valerie Lee / Dancing Astronaut:

Soundcloud continues to push boundaries of privacy policies; enables Universal to screen, monitor, and terminate accounts — Following the forced decision of artists like Kaskade to leave behind Soundcloud as their go-to forum for music sharing, like clockwork, the platform has provided …

More: Do Androids Dance, mixmag.net, Mixmag, Boing Boing and hypebot

Tweets: @p4ula and @textfiles

Panorama:

NSA tracks users of Tor website, calls visitors to Tails and Linux Journal sites “extremists” — NSA targets the privacy-conscious — The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany - in Berlin and Nuremberg - are under surveillance by the NSA.

More: Boing Boing, Schneier on Security, Gigaom, RT and Techdirt

Tweets: @botherder, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @csoghoian

Justine Coyne / Pittsburgh Business Times:

Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh — Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have been issued a cease-and-desist order and must immediately stop operations in Pittsburgh. — In an order granted Tuesday, Judges Mary D. Long and Jeffrey A. Watson said the companies cannot operate until …

More: The Technology Chronicles, Washington Post, Philly.com, Uber Blog, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fast Company, CBS Pittsburgh, CNET, Engadget and SlashGear

Tweets: @billpeduto, @bridgepburgh and @uber_pit

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Microsoft surrenders the 23 domains it recently confiscated from No-IP — Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains — Microsoft has surrendered the 23 domain names it confiscated from dynamic domain hosting service No-IP.com, a move that begins the process …

More: Help Net Security, No-IP Blog and Forbes

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate — Brazilian ‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions — With the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud that's giving Brazilian banks …

More: Speaking of Security, ZDNet, The Register, SecurityWeek, New York Times, Reuters and SC Magazine

Tweets: @ckindel and @rogeragrimes

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter — Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol — The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz. Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies …

Tweets: @caitlindewey, @wesupportnyc, @mathewi, @sacca, @kashhill and @alyssa_milano. Thanks:@themadhacker

Christopher Tozzi / The VAR Guy:

Automotive Grade Linux Released for Open Source Cars — Linux, the open source operating system, shifted gears into a relatively new ecosystem this week with the first release of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a Linux distribution tailored for cars in the Internet of Things age.

More: Linux Foundation, Geeky Gadgets, Gizmodo, Inquirer, The Register and eWeek

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior — A Bright Side to Facebook's Experiments on Its Users — Facebook's disclosure last week that it had tinkered with about 700,000 users' news feeds as part of a psychology experiment conducted …

More: Wall Street Journal, Medium, TIME, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, PandoDaily and Technologizer

Tweets: @zeynep and @zeynep

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