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• Apple debuts iOS 7: Everything You Need To Know

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  This year’s WWDC may have started off slow with a nondescript app demo from third-party developer Anki, but the typical barrage of news started soon enough, with major updates to both iOS and OS X only representing part of the press conference. Both operating systems have abandoned nearly all signs of skeuomorphism — indeed, Apple executives continually poked fun at the felt, stitching, and leather featured in older versions of the operating systems. iOS 7 looks shockingly refreshing, and OS X has seen many changes as well — including a move away from cat names. 10.9 is known as “Mavericks,” and it kicks off a series of California-inspired names for future versions. Overall, the extremely welcome software tweaks (which we’ll enumerate below) show Apple catching up to its competitors in many ways.
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• Obama and the NSA Sued over PRISM

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  The first lawsuit that has PRISM at its roots has already been filed. Former US prosecutor Larry Klayman and the parents of the killed Navy Seal Team VI member Michael Strange have filed a lawsuit against President Obama, the NSA and several players involved in the scandal.
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• Operation “Troll the NSA” seeks to jam the agency with nonsense

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  The Obama administration and NSA have been under extreme public fire lately after a report by The Washington Post revealed a project called PRISM, which snowballed into a variety of other leaks and such that revealed what we already knew: the government is spying on Internet users. In retaliation, an Internet trolling operation has been kicked off called “Troll the NSA,” which is encouraging Internet users to email and/or call a pre-written script loaded with trigger words.
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• Microsoft works with FBI to take down 1400 Citadel botnets

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  On TechNet today, Microsoft Digital Crime Unit’s Assistant General Counsel Richard Boscovich detailed the company’s involvement in helping take down over a thousand Citadel botnets, which are used to mine banking data, among other info. The work was done in conjunction with the FBI, members from within the financial industry, and “other technology industry partners.”
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• Microsoft won't say if IE11 will be made for Windows 7

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  When Microsoft officially announced the first details on its upcoming free Windows 8.1 upgrade, it mentioned it would also include Internet Explorer 11. But is IE11 also going to be released on Windows 7, as Microsoft chose to do with IE10?
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• SanDisk expands portfolio with Extreme II SSD

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  SanDisk has announced that its portfolio of SSDs is being expanded with three new drives, among them and most notable being the SanDisk Extreme II SSD. As with many of the other devices and hardware we’ve heard about this evening, SanDisk will be showing off the Extreme II and the other two drives, both of which are OEM offerings, at Computex this week.
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• iPhone Hacked In 60 Seconds By Modified Charger

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  Researchers have reportedly been able to install dangerous hacking software onto an iPhone in less than a minute using a modified charger.
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• Western Digital dishes out world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive

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  It’s not the thinnest hard drive ever, but Western Digital has launched a new 7mm drive that happens to be the world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive. The company has added the new drive to its Blue lineup of hard drives, and while it’s not the thinnest drive we’ve seen, it’s still a pretty impressive sliver of storage.
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• FBI ordered to return confiscated hard drives to Kim Dotcom

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  It’s been quite the journey for Mega founder Kim Dotcom, but it seems like things are slowly coming to a conclusion. The High Court of New Zealand has ordered the FBI to return confiscated hard drives that were taken from Dotcom’s home when it was initially raided last year. They have also ordered the US government to destroy all copies that they might have archived.
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• Microsoft confirms new apps to be added for Windows 8.1

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  Microsoft is finally offering some details about the upcoming Windows 8 free update, Windows 8.1, about a month before the planned release of its public preview. Microsoft's blog post about Windows 8.1 mentioned that it would release new in-house developed apps for Windows 8.1 but didn't go into much detail.
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• Windows 8.1 Preview: many small tweaks make for a significant update

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  Microsoft launched Windows 8 on October 26th, with a volley of new hardware designed for the touch-based interface. Just 12 months after an early Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft is now keen to talk about some upcoming changes in an update named Windows 8.1. Originally codenamed Blue, Windows 8.1 sets the pace for changes to Microsoft's software that will continue in the future for both the RT and x86 versions of the OS.
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• Chinese hackers steal US advanced weapons blueprints according to report

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  It seems you can’t go a day without hearing a new report about hackers, whether they’re of the annoying Twitter-hijacking variety or the more troublesome DDoSing type. Some, however, are more insidious, including the Iranian hackers who are actively attacking the United States’ energy industry. Now a leaked government document shows that Chinese hackers have accessed designs for some of the nation’s most advanced weapons.
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• Mega under Hollywood fire: Google tapped to block search results

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  We knew it would end up getting criticism from the start, but Kim Dotcom’s recently-launched Mega website is getting the stink-eye from movie studios in Hollywood. While Dotcom claims that his new service is completely legal, studios like NBC Universal and Warner Bros. think the contrary, and have asked Google to take down the website from search results.
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• Microsoft kills another start button with Xbox One controller, is just trolling everyone now

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  See those two buttons in the center? Don't even think about calling either the start button.
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• UK’s ITV News hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

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  It has been a week to the dot since the Syrian Electronic Army has last commandeered an unsuspecting Twitter account, this time going after the United Kingdom’s ITV News media company, which owns the UK’s largest TV station. Earlier this evening, half a dozen unusual tweets were sent out via the account, with a couple of them referencing the SEA hacking collective.
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