Morning Tech Crawl: PlayStation VR release date, Snapchat ads, Apple privacy details

Happy Tuesday, tech crawlers! Here's what tech blogs are buzzing about this morning:

In case you missed yesterday's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, the company touted its end-to-end encryption on apps to protect privacy while also offering new features that would seem to need information from users to work. Recode reports that "Differential privacy" is Apple's answer to the conundrum.

Remember that brief moment when fantasy sports-betting sites were the biggest thing in tech? Now, Bloomberg reports, FanDuel and DraftKings are in talks to merge after their value has dropped due to legal battles with states over whether they are legal to operate.

Sony's virtual reality headset now has a release date and price, announced during a busy E3 week: Oct. 13 for $399 or $499 bundled with the Move controllers and Eye camera required to operate it. Sony says it will have 50 VR games on deck by the end of the year. Nintendo's E3 presentation is up today.

Yesterday's big news of Microsoft buying LinkedIn raises the question, where's Google's professional network and how will the company respond?

Anil Dash's startup focused on providing deep analytics for social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram is shutting down on July 10 due to the difficult task of collecting data via APIs that keep getting restricted by companies including Facebook.