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With free men now gazing through PRISM, darkly, Apple has moved to quell fears concerning its customer's online privacy by revealing those details it is aware of regarding the US NSA's legitimately filed requests for that data -- but have we got the big picture, or just a partial account of what's been going on? Meanwhile Apple co-founder, Woz, is angry at the implications of the NSA's snooping system.

Tim cooks up new data. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) continues to deny that it's involved in the NSA's PRISM program. In its latest carefully-worded missive, it again says it's never heard of PRISM, but does admit to having helped Police find some missing kiddies. So that's OK then. Nothing to see here. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

The financial services firm's sofware engineers have gamified recruiting by challenging aspiring programmers to compete in a friendly game of poker.

Computerworld's annual Best Places to Work in IT special report is out. But here, of course, we want the alternative survey -- the worst places to work!

City government tech upgrades several PCs acting as cash registers at the city's recreation center. But soon one user calls to report that the credit-card reader isn't working on his PC.

Microsoft's sudden, surprise release of Office for the iPhone is a victory for those in the company who recognize the company's future doesn't lie in turf wars and in-fighting, but instead in releasing the best products for the widest audience. But the victory is only a partial one.

WWDC 2013: With the dust settling on the recent Xbox and PS4 launches, Apple appears to have its own plan for the console gaming market -- though it's keeping pretty quiet about it, particularly since these plans could reflect its intentions for an Apple television.

The scale of data growth today is so massive it can be numbing. According to Gartner*, in the last minute there were 204 million emails sent, 61,000 hours of music listened to on Pandora, 20 million photo views and 3 million uploads to Flickr, 100,000 tweets, 6 million views and 277,000 Facebook logins, and 2 million plus Google searches.

Every day, more iPhones are sold than babies born.

This tech at a big bank gets a call from someone in Finance who's frantic because the "numbers report" is missing, Numbers report? "You know," user says, "that real big report we get each workday. I need to file it!"