Steve Liesman / CNBC: Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Use of Terminal Data  —  Both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury Department are examining the extent to which Bloomberg-terminal usage by top officials might have been tracked by Bloomberg journalists, CNBC has learned.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It's Buy Or Die  —  The writing's on the wall.  Mobile is the future, and it requires different skill than the web.  Entrepreneurship is more fetishized than ever, making standard hiring tough.  The result is days like today where Yahoo, Twitter …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET: Google's VP9 video codec nearly done; YouTube will use it  —  One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17.  —  Google plans to finish defining its VP9 video codec on June 17 …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Facebook's General Counsel Ullyot to Depart the Company  —  Facebook's top lawyer Ted Ullyot is leaving the social networking giant, apparently to take some time off.  —  Facebook disclosed the departure today.  Ullyot, 45, will be officially gone in July; the search for his replacement will include internal and external candidates.
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New York Times: Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals  —  A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news.  —  The company confirmed that reporters …
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Joseph Menn / Reuters: Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback  —  (Reuters) - Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers and security firms sell tools for breaking into computers.
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Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Big changes coming to AppleCare this fall: warranty subscriptions, in-store iOS device repairs, more [u]  —  In a town hall session held on Thursday, Apple informed tech staff that major changes to the AppleCare and AppleCare+ service programs will be enacted starting this fall …
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg: Patent Court Torn on Whether Software Deserve Patents  —  The nation's top patent court issued a deeply divided opinion today on how to determine if software is eligible for legal protection, reflecting the broader debate that has split the computer industry.
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Brad Reed / BGR: Microsoft exec hits back at Windows 8 bashing, says OS is not like ‘a can of soda’  —  Microsoft executive Frank Shaw is not happy with everyone who compared Windows 8 to New Coke this week.  Shaw, who serves as Microsoft's vice president of corporate communications, has written a blog post swiping …
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Michael B. Farrell / The Boston Globe: Boston goes Google as its drops Microsoft e-mail services  —  The mayor who doesn't do e-mail is now on Gmail.  —  Whether Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who doesn't even have a computer on his desk, actually uses it is another matter.  But he's moving to Google, and bringing some 20,000 other city employees with him.
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Associated Press: Washington state courts hacked; potentially up to 160,000 Social Security numbers accessed  —  OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers …
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Jon Russell / The Next Web: Apple forces Line to remove the ability to send virtual items as gifts from its iOS app  —  Asian mobile messaging service Line is seeing early success with its monetization model — to the tune of $58 million in revenue for Q1 2013 — but there's a little bad news today as the company …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook Is Getting Serious About Original Programming With “Facebook Live”  —  “House Of Cards” proved that great, exclusive content can create loyal customers.  While Facebook isn't about to produce TV shows, it tells me that it plans to ramp up production of its Facebook Live original programming starting …
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Foursquare adds location filters by price, hours, and friend check-ins to its website, coming soon to apps  —  Foursquare on Friday announced a new feature for its website: location filters.  The feature is live now (you can check it out over at foursquare.com/explore) and Foursquare say it plans to bring it to your phone next.
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Reuters: Exclusive: Elon Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group  —  (Reuters) - Billionaire environmentalist Elon Musk has quit a Silicon Valley advocacy group formed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg after the group funded ads for senators touting their support for an oil pipeline and oil drilling in Alaska.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: YouTube's New Subscription Service: Stars Not Included  —  YouTube finally rolled out its paid subscription service yesterday, which generated a lot coverage.  —  But the YouTube folks went out of their way to downplay the launch, describing it is as the first stage of an experiment.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Yahoo's Acqui-Hire Spree Continues With Mobile Gaming Startup Loki Studios  —  Yahoo has been gobbling up startups.  In the last week or so, it has announced the acquisition of Astrid, GoPollGo, and Milewise.  In fact, in a tweet today, Yahoo said that it has “added 22 entrepreneurs …
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David Kravets / Wired: Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform  —  The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Apple's two-step verification rolling out to additional countries: Canada, Argentina, Netherlands, Russia, Mexico, Poland, Brazil, more  —  Update: Mexico, Germany Netherlands, Russia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Portugal, Italy & Poland too.  Let us know in the comments if the feature is now available in your country.
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Jamie Rigg / Engadget: Sharp reportedly laying off 5,000 employees, focusing more on smartphone displays and bigger, better TVs for US market  —  Sharp finally had something positive to report a couple of months ago when it received a much-need cash injection from Samsung, but today's news isn't so rosy.
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Esteban Israel / Reuters: Twitter eyes big business in Brazil's World Cup, Olympics  —  SAO PAULO - While Brazil struggles to finish its stadiums in time for the 2014 World Cup, Twitter is already working to cash in on what the U.S. company's head of revenue, Adam Bain, sees as a potentially huge business opportunity.
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Microsoft's Bing adds Facebook commenting and Like actions to its social sidebar  —  Microsoft on Friday announced it has once again expanded Bing's Facebook integration.  Not only can you see relevant Facebook posts in the search engine's social sidebar, but you can now comment on them and Like them as well.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge: Bloomberg reporters allegedly used financial terminals to spy on Wall Street  —  Bloomberg reporters have been keeping tabs on Wall Street using their company's financial terminals, the New York Post reports.  Bloomberg terminals, which cost $20,000 a year or more to lease, are a fixture in the banking world.
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Marc Santora / New York Times: Cyberthieves Looted A.T.M.'s of $45 Million in Just Hours  —  It was a huge bank heist - but a 21st-century version in which the robbers never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault.  —  Yet, in two precision operations that involved people in more than two dozen countries acting …
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Angela Moscaritolo / PC Magazine: Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos App for iOS  —  Heads up, snap-happy iPhone users.  If you take a lot of photos on your phone, and they're starting to take up too much space, then Amazon has a solution for you.  —  The Web giant this week launched its Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS devices.
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