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wired.com — When a senior FBI official told Congress the role the NSA's secret surveillance apparatus played in a San Diego terror financing case today, nobody was more surprised to hear it than the defense attorney who fought a long and futile court battle to get exactly the same information while defending the case in court.

wired.com — Google filed a legal challenge today against gag orders that come with the FISA court orders it receives from the FBI and NSA, on grounds that the silence orders impinge on the company's First Amendment rights to speak freely about the data requests it receives for user data.

wired.com — Repeated studies have demonstrated that meditation can rewire how the brain responds to stress. Boston University researchers showed that after as little as three and a half hours of meditation training, subjects tend to react less to emotionally charged images. Other research suggests that meditation improves working memory and executive function.

wired.com — LE BOURGET, France - The Airbus A380 is among the biggest stars here at the Paris Air Show, but no less impressive is the sleek electric aerobatic trainer that is its distant cousin. The E-Fan is the brainchild of Didier Esteyne, an engineer and pilot with a knack for electric aircraft.

wired.com — For the last three years Breakfast has been working on creating a street sign. Like most other "all points" signs in the world, this one will lead you in the right direction towards your destination. But that's pretty much where the similarities end.

wired.com — You don't know his name. But if you care about trailers you know his work: iconic previews for films like The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Tree of Life, and director Nicolas Winding Refn's latest project, Only God Forgives, out July 19. Meet Mark Woollen.

wired.com — The rumors are true. In mid-March, word arrived by way of a publication called FCW that Amazon, the king of cloud computing, had inked a contract with the Central Intelligence Agency to provide $600 million in cloud services over the next decade, and last week, Amazon openly confirmed the deal -- if not the price tag -- after rival IBM filed a formal protest over the pact.

insights.wired.com — While traditional media continue their difficult decline, a cadre of the most innovative reporters, from Afghanistan to the Amazon, are quietly transforming journalism by harnessing the power of open data. Working in collaboration with civil society groups and governments, they are applying new digital tools to increasingly available data troves to tell stories via powerful interactive graphics.

wired.com — For the past few years, 4G LTE has been a staple of top-of-the-line smartphones and tablets. But as 2013 draws to a close, we're going to see a new wireless technology start stepping up to the plate: 4G LTE Advanced. It's going to kick 4G LTE's ass.

wired.com — This flu season has been a particularly bad one. But an innovative method for making vaccines promises an easier and quicker response to pandemics-thanks to good ol' tobacco.

wired.com — For several years during the Vietam Era, hijackings were astonishingly routine in American airspace. Desperate and deluded souls commandeered over 130 planes between 1968 and 1972, often at a pace of one or more per week. WIRED contributing editor Brendan I.