Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu  —  DirecTV, the second largest U.S. pay-TV provider, is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter.  —  Hulu's owners, including Walt Disney Co. …
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Jennifer Van Grove / CNET: Apple removes Bang With Friends from App Store  —  The eyebrow-raising app won't be initiating Facebook-friend hookups for iPhone owners for the time being.  —  No more knocking boots with your Facebook friends, iPhone users.  Apple has removed the salaciously titled Bang With Friends iPhone application from its App Store.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge: T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own  —  Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the FCC's then-newly adopted Open Internet rules.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Apple's lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories  —  Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Justin Timberlake are just a few of the artists over the past year to offer full-length, high quality streams of their newest albums on iTunes in the days before release.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling  —  The Tumblr sweepstakes have begun.  —  According to multiple reports (the first coming from All Things D). the social blogging site is in serious talks with Yahoo , which is looking to secure a strategic investment …
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Lucian Constantin / Macworld: Developer-signed Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer  —  Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.  —  Security researcher and privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum found …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78%  —  One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.
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Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next-gen console  —  Microsoft is preparing to update its Xbox 360 with another dashboard update.  Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans have revealed to The Verge that the dashboard update will enter into a public beta …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: US Air Force expects to save $50M with use of 18K Apple iPads  —  The purchase of 18,000 iPads for use as electronic flight bags has set the stage for the U.S. Air Force to save more than $50 million over the next 10 years.  —  Using lightweight iPads instead of heavy paper flight manuals …
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Jay Donovan / TechCrunch: Indoor Mapping Startup Meridian Adds Notification Zones To Their Strategy  —  Indoor mapping software startup Meridian, continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to their offering.  —  Called Zones, the company's newest update to their indoor mapping platform …
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Chris Welch / The Verge: Yahoo to hold Monday press event in New York as Tumblr buyout rumors swirl  —  CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a “product-related” news event this Monday in New York City.  None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event.  Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn't yet …
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International Design Times: Firefox 22 Won't Block Third-Party Tracking Cookies: Why Mozilla Delayed Default Blocker And How Your Privacy Is Affected  —  Privacy and Security  —  Mozilla announced it will be delaying the default block on third-party cookie tracking in the upcoming Firefox 22 citing additional testing as the reason for the hold.
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Jeffrey Wu / Focus Taiwan: Production capacity for HTC One to double in May: executive  —  Taipei, May 16 (CNA) Taiwan's HTC Corp. said Thursday that its production capacity for its new HTC One flagship phone is rising sharply month by month as its component supply issues continue to improve.
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg: FCC Nominee to Divest AT&T, Verizon to Avoid Conflict  —  Tom Wheeler, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the FCC, agreed to sell holdings of $500,001 to $1 million in both AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to resolve possible conflicts of interest before taking office.
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: Bloomberg Names Former IBM CEO Palmisano to Advise on Data Privacy  —  Here's an interesting development in the ongoing data-privacy imbroglio over at Bloomberg LP.  The company just named former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as an independent adviser with the task of reviewing and recommending changes on privacy and data policies.
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: Gizmodo Pivots From Gadgets to Design  —  Because Kinja.  —  Gizmodo, Gawker media's tech blog, is getting a new editor and a new focus.  Geoff Manaugh, a former senior editor at Dwell Magazine and contributing editor at Wired UK, will take over at Gizmodo.
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Greg Sandoval / The Verge: How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service  —  Sources say iRadio is still mired in licensing talks and may not be ready for WWDC  —  Google's long-rumored Play Music All Access service is already out the door, while Apple's iRadio is still bogged down in licensing talks.
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Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: Twitter Teams With NBA to Stream Basketball Replay Videos  —  Twitter Inc. has teamed with the National Basketball Association to stream video clips of game highlights as the blogging service expands beyond 140-character status updates ahead of a possible initial public offering.
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Miyoung Kim / Reuters: A stretched Samsung chases rival Apple's suppliers  —  (Reuters) - Overtaking Apple Inc as the world's leading maker of smartphones has stretched Samsung Electronics Co's in-house supply lines, and the South Korean firm is now courting some of its rival's main parts suppliers.
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Nicholas Thompson / New Yorker: Julius Genachowski Leaves the F.C.C.  —  After four and a half years running the F.C.C., Julius Genachowski is stepping down on Friday.  He's had an eventful time: dealing with net neutrality, spectrum auctions, mergers, and David Ortiz's exhortative expletive on national TV.
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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: Bipartisan bill would force government to get a court order before seizing phone records  —  Yesterday, we heard that the Obama administration was pushing for the resurrection of a 2009 media shield law, but a separate bipartisan coalition is also introducing a bill that would make it harder …
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times: Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet ‘Wiretaps’  —  Surveillance can be a tricky affair in the Internet age.  —  A federal law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act allows law enforcement officials to tap a traditional phone, as long as they get approval from a judge.
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Bloomberg: Apple Mobile Devices Approved for Use on U.S. Military Networks  —  The Pentagon cleared Apple Inc. (AAPL) devices for use on its networks, setting the stage for the maker of iPhones and iPads to compete with Samsung Electronics Co. and BlackBerry for military sales.
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Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph: Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army  —  The Financial Times website and two Twitter accounts belonging to the news organisation appear to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army today.  —  The breach, which took place just before 1pm BST, is just the latest in a spate …
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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: Nvidia Shield pre-orders start today, priced at $349 and ships in June  —  Three days earlier than expected  —  Nvidia is starting orders of its new Android-powered handheld console, Shield, today.  After announcing a $349 price tag and June release date earlier this week …
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