Drew FitzGerald / Digits: Yahoo Plans to Recycle Inactive User Names  —  Digital deadbeats, consider yourselves warned: Yahoo sa ys it will start culling inactive user names this summer “to give our loyal users and new folks the opportunity to sign up for the Yahoo ID they've always wanted,” in the words of platforms executive Jay Rossiter.
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill: FTC sides with Uber in DC taxi fight  —  Federal regulators are warning the District of Columbia's taxicab commission that proposed rules on services like Uber that use smartphone applications to pay and hail taxis could be overly restrictive.  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: Why does the design of iOS 7 look so different?  —  If you caught Apple's iOS 7 presentation on Monday or have followed any of the numerous bits of coverage, then you know that the home screen icons have quickly become a point of contention.  They're certainly a radical departure from the deep …
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Julia / iFixit: AirPort Extreme Teardown  —  Our teardown artists kept the midnight oil a'burning to take apart the AirPort Extreme—Apple's first ever 802.11ac wireless base station.  —  And, we'll tell you this for free: the AirPort Extreme totally lives up to its name.  It's extremely tall and extremely easy to disassemble.
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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: Facebook Finally Gets Hashtags: How They Work  —  Twitter has them.  Google+ has them.  Instagram has them.  And now Facebook has them, too. #hashtags have arrived on Facebook. … Here's Facebook's example of how they look:  —  Here's one live that I've made:
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Yahoo Acquires Advanced iOS Photography App Maker GhostBird Software  —  Yahoo has just quietly announced that they've acquired GhostBird Software, the creators of advanced iOS photography apps, KitCam and PhotoForge2.  Though details of the deal are still underwraps, Yahoo is explicitly saying …
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Bloomberg: Surveillance Thwarted Dozens of Attacks, NSA Chief Says  —  The secret collection of telephone records of millions of Americans has helped stop “dozens” of terrorist attacks inside the U.S. and abroad, the director of the National Security Agency said.  —  The surveillance disrupted or is …
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Joseph Volpe / Engadget: This is the HTC One Mini  —  The leaks are true: HTC's rumored M4 is indeed the One Mini.  We know because a trusted source in possession of the “petite” 4.3-inch handset has fed us a direct image, while also confirming some specs.  From what we've seen, the few renders and blurrycam shots …
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: IBM Said to Start U.S. Job Cuts Today Amid Global Reduction  —  International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) began cutting U.S. jobs today as part of a plan announced in April to spend $1 billion globally to trim its workforce, according to a person familiar with the move.
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Lana Lam / South China Morning Post: Edward Snowden: US government has been hacking Hong Kong and China for years  —  US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday emerged from hiding in Hong Kong and revealed to the South China Morning Post that he will stay in the city to fight likely attempts by his government to have him extradited for leaking state secrets.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Apple: We have 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market  —  Apple now holds about 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market, director Keith Moerer said in court Tuesday.  Moerer was a government witness in U.S. vs. Apple, in which the Department of Justice accuses Apple of illegally colluding …
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Zach Kahn / 9to5Mac: iOS 7 to include support for standardized, MFi hardware game controllers, new turn-based game modes, & more for gamers  —  In what seems to be an announcement lost within the buzz of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks (amongst other WWDC news), Apple will finally open up the iOS SDK …
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Jon Russell / The Next Web: Twitter retires API v1, finally killing off TweetDeck for iOS, Android, AIR and other apps  —  It's a move that has been coming for some while, but today Twitter finally confirmed that it has “retired” API v1 and is transitioning to its new API v1.1.  —  In practical terms …
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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: Aiming for the Real-Time Interest Graph, Facebook to Introduce Hashtags  —  Imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery.  And Twitter should be very flattered right now.  —  As we reported in March, Facebook plans to introduce the hashtag symbol to its network …
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: The new, new Myspace leaves beta; launches a revised design, new features, & a mobile app  —  Myspace is unveiling its latest version today, with some new features and an iOS app that hopes to pull in users despite the multitude of other music-focused services already vying for attention.
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Telis Demos / MoneyBeat: Dataminr Secures $30 Million Amid Twitter-Scanning Success … Dataminr Inc., the New York City startup that mines Twitter for tradable news, has raised an additional $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms.  —  The fundraising round, Dataminr's third since its founding in 2009 …
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Bloomberg: Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart New Web TV  —  Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to media companies that agree to withhold content from Web-based entertainment services such as those pursued by Intel Corp. (INTC) and Apple Inc. (AAPL), people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: TechStars NY Fires Their Managing Director Right Before Demo Day  —  It sounds like the accelerator bubble is constricting right on schedule.  According to an email obtained by Valleywag, Eugene Chung, who was hired to replace David Tisch as managing director of TechStars New York in January, has been fired.
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Live in Lulea: Facebook Goes Global and Gets Greener  —  Some of the racks of Open Compute servers inside the new Facebook data center in Lulea, Sweden.  The facility is Facebook's first data center outside the U.S. (Photo: Facebook).  —  Facebook has gone live in Lulea.
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Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: ESPN Is Killing 3D Broadcasts By the End of the Year  —  ESPN will kill 3D TV by the end of the year.  We reached out to ESPN, and the company confirmed rumors, citing lackluster adoption of the technology.  This is huge news considering the huge investment that TV manufacturers and broadcasters have made to try to bolster the tech.
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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: Ashton Kutcher's ‘Jobs’ to open nationwide on August 16th following a four-month delay  —  Early impressions of the Ashton Kutcher-led Jobs were decidedly mixed, but you'll soon get an opportunity to judge the Steve Jobs biopic for yourself.  According to Deadline, Open Road Films has announced …
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Lana Lam / South China Morning Post: Edward Snowden: ‘Let Hong Kong people decide my fate’  —  Edward Snowden says he wants to ask the people of Hong Kong to decide his fate after choosing the city because of his faith in its rule of law.  The 29-year-old former CIA employee behind what might be the biggest intelligence leak …
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Tomio Geron / Forbes: AngelList Raising New Funding From VCs—And Angels On Its Site  —  AngelList, the website that helps startups raise angel funding, is now using its platform to raise money for itself.  —  The startup is raising financing from venture capitalists in addition to a portion of the round …
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Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: CIA Chooses: Amazon or IBM?  —  The battle between International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. over a $600 million contract to set up a cloud-computing system for the Central Intelligence Agency shows the growing importance of intelligence-agency business for technology companies.
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Robert O'Brien / GeekWire: NSA revelations damaging for American tech companies ... especially in China  —  U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their historic two-day summit last Friday and Saturday.  Pre-summit briefings by American officials revealed that cybersecurity was at the top …
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