Nation: Leaders of major tech companies urged President Obama yesterday to dial back the NSA’s electronic spying. Execs from Google, Apple, Yahoo and other companies met with the President for two hours, a day after the NSA’s massive data collection was ruled unconstitutional by a US District Court judge. The NSA has made the tech companies involuntarily complicit in the collection of information and they don’t like it.

• President Obama is sending former tennis star Billie Jean King and other gay representatives to be part of the US delegation marching at the opening of the Sochi Olympics. It’s a slap at Russia’s national law banning “gay propaganda.” In a further snub, President Obama and Vice President Biden do not plan to attend the Olympics.

World: Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich is facing accusations that he sold out his country after getting a $15 billion bailout from Russia. His government was headed toward default and he cozied up to Russia for the money. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians marched in favor of a European trade deal that Yanukovich turned down.

• Indians are furious about the arrest and handcuffing of one of their diplomats in New York. In retaliation, New Delhi police pulled away the concrete barriers that protect the US Embassy. Devyani Khobragade, the deputy consul general, was arrested last week. She’s accused of falsifying a work visa for her housekeeper and paying less than minimum wage. Indian officials are angry that Khobragade was handcuffed on the street as she left her daughter at school, and was kept in a cell with drug addicts.
• Fifty-nine previously unheard Beatles tracks were released yesterday to keep them under copyright and out of the public domain. Under European Union law they would have gone public at the end of 50 years from the time of their recording. The tracks include alternate versions of “She Loves You” and “From Me To You.”

Think of the Taxes: Two people hold winning tickets for the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, one of the largest lottery prizes ever. The rules have been changed to make the odds longer and the prize larger.

Obituary: The end finally came, but only for Harold Camping, the Christian radio evangelist who convinced thousands of people the world would end on May 21, 2011. He died at age 92. Camping spent millions of dollars warning that the end was nigh. He said he was stunned, and so were a lot of his followers, when he woke up the next morning. He readjusted his calendar and predicted the end for Oct. 21, but he and the world survived that day, too. He retired from radio evangelism.

• Ronnie Biggs, a member of the crew that pulled off Britain’s 1963 Great Train Robbery, has died in England. Biggs was captured and convicted, but escaped and spent 36 years on the lam before giving himself up. He became a folk hero. Most of the $7.3 million taken from the Royal Mail Train was never recovered.

H-Bombs: Cambridge Police say they arrested a 20-year-old Harvard student who they say called in a bomb scare Monday to avoid taking a final exam. Eldo Kim, 20, of Cambridge, is accused of sending emails titled “bombs placed around campus” to university officials and the Harvard Crimson newspaper. Exams were cancelled for the day and but it’s unlikely Kim will ever have to take another Harvard final.

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