Around the web

• Sentencing continues in Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's trial.

• Edward Snowden has made it out of the transit zone at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and into Russia, where, per Reuters, he has obtained a special travel document and one year's asylum in the country.

• PBS MediaShift has a report on the fate of OpenBlock, the open-source software core of now-defunct company EveryBlock. A newspaper in Columbia, Mo., is using it to power its own local site thanks to a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant.

• A bill that legalizes unlocking your own cellphone has made it through the House Judiciary Committee. The practice became illegal in some cases after rules implementing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act were reinterpreted late last year.

• Now coming to a library near you: 3-d printing.

• The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday was rough on supporters of few restrictions for NSA surveillance.

• BuzzFeed has a colorful essay on Bluffdale, Utah, a town in the shadow of the NSA's mysterious data center.

• The New York Times effectively asks its readers, in a piece which sort of throws up its hands and quits halfway through an attempt to evaluate Bitcoin: What do we think about virtual currency, you guys?

• From the militarization-of-everything department: police forces working with military researchers on software that uses network analysis to track gangs. It's based on methods the military used to track insurgents in Iraq, reports Govtech.