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it's Friday August ninth 2013 I'm Nathan psyker current writer at the verge and former body double for Johnny tsunami this is 90 seconds on the verge President Obama announced for reforms he says will increase transparency and public awareness of the surveillance programs being carried out by the NSA and other US intelligence agencies those reforms include amendments to the Patriot Act and more public advocacy in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court the president also said that while critics of surveillance are patriots he doesn't believe Snowden himself is he does say however that quote the leaks triggered a rapid and more passionate response and would have been the case otherwise Game of Thrones may have been the most pirated show of last year but that's not upsetting the people who bankroll it Time Warner CEO Jeff bukas whose company owns HBO says that pirating the mega-hit show only helps spread word of mouth something he believes has helped the show greatly even when as far as saying that being the most pirated show is better than winning an Emmy although we at the virtual prefer an Emmy over you guys pirating 90 seconds and finally no this is not your grandma mispronouncing it a tissue comic book adaptation of George Lucas's original the Star Wars is coming a trailer was released yesterday showing off some of the characters in the series which is based on George Lucas's original rough draft the characters include a more human looking Darth Vader or reptilian han Solo and an old-looking Luke Skywalker the new series will hit comic book shops and dark horse common September four and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow we take a look at the updated ikea app that lets you now create your own augmented Swedish family