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it's Friday May 31st 2013 I'm Leah sigler that was a staring contest and this is 90 seconds on the verge Google's attempts to keep data out of the hands of federal government have failed for now a US district court judge threw out Google's petition to have 19 FBI National Security Letters dismissed or adjusted the letters are controversial requests to hand over data without a search warrant while the judge didn't buy Google's blanket argument against the letters she did leave the door open to allow the company to petition the individual letters themselves HTT is reportedly ditching plans for a full-size Windows RT tablet bloomberg reports that the company is shelving the product due to development costs and weak demand for larger tablets it is still working on a 7-inch RT tablet perhaps the 7-inch tablet will provide the boost that both the company and Windows RT need and finally a documentary crew is getting to the bottom of a 30 year old Atari mystery in 1983 the company produced a video game adaptation of ET the extra-terrestrial according to legend it bombed so badly Atari was forced to bury truckloads of cartridges in a New Mexico landfill fuse industries has now received approval to explore the alleged disposal site and will produce a film documenting what they find I don't know if you've been to the Wikipedia page or not but the backstory is pretty awesome and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow studies show putting your goldfish in the oven won't turn them into crackers