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Press advocates said the move sets a dangerous precedent and worried about future moves against journalists who cover the billionaire.

Samsung has received more than 700 reports of washing machines that vibrated abnormally. In some cases, the lids of the machines blew off. Front-load washers are not affected by the recall.

Microsoft is trying to help more teachers use the hugely popular game in the classroom without alienating the initial enthusiasts.

As an alternative to vaccinations, a Tennessee woman offered lollipops smeared with chickenpox virus. Health officials said that the chickenpox vaccine is much safer, and that mailing pathogens is both illegal and dangerous.

Colorado pastor Ted Haggard admits that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a gay prostitute. But the former leader of the New Life Church, who resigned following the allegations, says he did not have sex with the man.

With the federally run health insurance exchange at HealthCare.gov mired in technology problems, there's a lot of talk about how long people who need insurance can wait to buy it. Tardy purchasers face a potential tax penalty.

The National Security Agency is able to pluck data — including e-mails, videos, pictures, and connection logs — from the main servers of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other leading U.S. tech companies, according to reports by The Washington Post and The Guardian. The newly disclosed U.S. government program, they say, is named PRISM.

Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.

Also in this week's tech roundup, America's biggest bank says 76 million households were affected by its summer hack.

Fortune 1000 companies rely on the open source software OpenSSL for their core business. Two-thirds of websites use it. But no one pays for it, and it's never had a complete security audit.