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it's time to tap into the juiciest tech conversations I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update microsoft is refusing to give straight answers to reporters about its skype service and whether or not it can allow wiretapping of conversations that is if law enforcement wants to listen in previously the online chat service was so heavily encrypted there was no way for government to eavesdrop on conversations but skype just made a change to its network technology and some say the changes make it possible to intercept a call but when asked Microsoft didn't admit if wiretapping was possible wiretapping has been a hot topic recently because as more and more conversations head online to services like Skype police have no way to listen in to these online calls the FBI has been pushing for online services to build back doors for government surveillance and that's why everyone's thinking this change at skype could be a backdoor to help the FBI when the Olympics kick off on Friday you'll be hit with global games goodness from every side of social media and Twitter of course is included as part of the deal with NBC Twitter will have one page that pulls in all the millions of tweets sent by athletes fans and NBC reporters over the course of 17 days big-name brands have bought ads for the Twitter page so hey would you look at that Twitter's making money the news aggregator dig which was just bought last week by beta works will apparently beginning a new look with a relaunch on August first so we're keeping an eye out for that the samsung galaxy s3 is the hot phone of the summer and samsung is reporting that it shipped 10 million units but it didn't give specifics also samsung has a surprise announcement for august fifteenth but a good guess is that it's the debut of the stylus friendly tablet the samsung galaxy note 10.1 we first saw the 10-inch tablet screen at Mobile World Congress it's the cousin of everyone's favorite phablet the Galaxy Note but as for the hot tablet of the month the 16 gig version of Google's Nexus 7 is out of stock at the Google Play Store it's listed as coming soon but you can still get the eight gig version although you'll be waiting for almost a month for it to ship looking ahead it's a safe bet to expect that apple's next operating system called mountain lion will be released to the public this week so Mac users before ya pounce on this upgrade to version 10.8 don't forget that you'll first need to have the previous version installed called Snow Leopard it's also a good time to do some hard drive housekeeping and backup your system you can find all the details on upgrading as well as more on today's top stories at cnet com / update be sure to never miss an episode by following me on Twitter or subscribe to our daily newsletter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey