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Not yet confirmed, but it's assumed this is because Canada's Anti-Spam Law Comes into Force on July 1, 2014. It's also important to recognize the word-smithing of the email and realize that Microsoft uses the word "suspending," seemingly to suggest that it may resume in the future. Many companies are now trying to figure out how the Canadian law will affect email communications. As soon as Microsoft is able to figure it out, it's possible that email will flow again for security information.

Lyft hit with restraining orders from NY Attorney General, Taxi Commission

You Can’t Watch World Cup Goals on Twitter Anymore

London firm creates mind-controlled commands for Google Glass

RT @Techmeme: Twitter's analytics dashboard now includes detailed data on all tweets, not just ads

RT @Techmeme: Twitter's analytics dashboard now includes detailed data on all tweets, not just ads

Over the past two months, YouTube executives have begun making the rounds, talking to Hollywood producers to explore the kinds of support it could offer its content creators and produce more must-see programming, according to the two people.

Another possibility is that Apple is gearing up to release its own iBeacon hardware for sale to developers and retail stores that would like to use iBeacon technology. Currently, there is no centralized place or way to pick and buy iBeacon sensors. While the market is niche, Apple would likely be able to give the potential of iBeacon technology an incredible boost with the sale of its own iBeacon hardware. Apple has a developer website dedicated to both iBeacon software and hardware, so perhaps Apple would sell the hubs through that website or its other Made for iPhone (MFI) channels.

it quickly emerged that if you did change Android in any really important way it was no longer part of the common platform, but a fork. This is what Amazon has done with the Kindle Fire, and Google's reaction (as the sole arbiter of what is nor is not a fork) is that if you do that, you lose access to all Google's own apps, tools and APIs for Android. It wasn't entirely clear 4 and 5 years ago how big a deal that would be - how much of the value of a smartphone operating system would be in those embedded meta-services and cloud services from the platform provider. But now it's apparent that if you don't have those then you're really only selling a featurephone, at least as far as a normal consumer is concerned, and the only companies that have the assets and resources to build those things themselves (outside China, which is another world for Android) are Amazon (perhaps) and Microsoft.

Apple denies the claims by stating that “privacy is built into [its] products and services from the earliest stages of design. We work tirelessly to deliver the most secure hardware and software in the world.” Apple also explains that it uses industry leading encryption to protect location data, and says that all location data is stored solely on the iPhone, not on Apple’s servers.

Anyone still think that everyone sees everything on Twitter? Those other numbers, by the way, mean that there were 360 people who engaged in some way with my tweet, such as retweeting, replying or following. That percentage is my engagement rate for the tweet, 5%.

The simplicity of combining Wikipedia and Twitter in this way immediately struck me as a potentially useful transparency tool. So using my experience on a previous side project I quickly put together a short program that listens to all major language Wikipedias for anonymous edits from Congressional IP address ranges (thanks Josh) … and tweets them.

During the first six months of 2014, Andreessen tweeted 21,783 times—more than any of Twitter’s founders have posted since its creation, and an average of five tweets per hour, every hour. Quartz has analyzed the full @pmarca Twitter archive—provided by Andreessen—and has extracted the following data and observations. (We’ve focused on Jan. 1 through Jun. 30, 2014, Pacific time.)

Nine of 10 account holders found in a large cache of intercepted conversations, which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden provided in full to The Post, were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else.

That figure is actually far too low, but it was the only one we could measure with any precision. A graphic by Todd Lindeman broke it down. We found about 11,400 unique online accounts. Among them, about 1,200 were designated by the NSA as foreign targets. The remaining 10,000-plus were akin to digital bystanders. Some of them knew the NSA targets and conversed with them. Others fell into the pile by joining a chat room, regardless of subject, or using an online service hosted on a server that a target used for something else entirely.

A federal judge has granted a nutritional supplement firm's request to help it learn the identities of those who allegedly left "phony negative" reviews of its products on Amazon.com.

With Lightroom 5.5, at the end of a membership, the desktop application will continue to launch and provide access to the photographs managed within Lightroom as well as the Slideshow, Web, Book, or Print creations that we know many photographers painstakingly create. The Develop and Map modules have been disabled in order to signal the end of the membership and the need to renew in order to receive Adobe's continuous innovation in those areas. Access to Lightroom mobile workflows will also cease to function.

RT @newsycombinator: France to enforce basic programming teaching starting at age 10

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is looking to cut the jobs in the advertising department, sales and marketing. Though the company is not specifying the magnitude, the number might be in hundreds. This might be due to the initiative to control the cost on PC sales due to the slowdown in PC market. The reduction in marketing is also due to the high cost incurred in marketing of Windows 8. The company has spent over $6.2 billion in online campaign for windows 8 which didn’t prove very profitable and it was bound to lead the termination, especially with the new shift in culture.

And the never-ending tech acquisitions continue! Yahoo announced yesterday that it acquired online streaming company RayV to aid Marissa Mayer’s company in advancing its online mobile agenda.

In a 3-2 vote, the FCC moved to re-appropriate E-Rate funds, used on dated technologies, to expand Wi-Fi in schools and libraries. E-Rate, set into motion in 1996, taxes consumers of telecommunications services and spends the proceeds on technology in classrooms and libraries. The FCC reasoned that E-Rate funding for Wi-Fi was generally unsteady and was even unavailable throughout 2013. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who initially proposed $5 billion in E-Rate funding, said the first $1 Billion spent on Wi-Fi expansion will benefit 10 million students.

In a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday by HK Apple Daily, the component is put through the usual battery of scratch testing, stabbing and bending before seeing savage assessment involving fire and, ultimately, a car.

Deformed between two hands, the part shows a relatively high degree of flexibility. Though blogger Sonny Dickson — who published the video independently and has accurately reported prerelease Apple hardware in the past — claims that the part on display is made of sapphire, there is no confirmation that the material is indeed in use.

Young says that it is the responsibility of Netflix to use connections that will be able to handle high volumes of traffic, or create arrangements with third-party suppliers to be able to manage the high volumes. Young, however, said that while the company believes that it is Netflix's fault that users are not satisfied with the speed with which their videos load, it is working with Netflix to create new, direct connections between the two companies.

RT @waltmossberg: Kenny, Cartman and the Rest of "South Park" Go Behind Hulu's Paywall This Fall via @pkafka

RT @gigaom: .Io domains may be really popular, but they have a dark history -- and one that the UK denies receiving profits from:

RT @WSJ: Cupcakes were dessert craze of 2012. Now it's all about donuts, according to Google Trends.