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Joe Weisenthal / The Business Insider:
Notorious Hacker Group LulzSec Just Announced That It's Finished — LulzSec, the notorious hacker group that's been on a rampage, just announced that it's disbanding. — This follows 50 days chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point) …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, @lulzsec, Disruptors, Gawker, Electronista, Reuters, AllThingsD, Bits, The Firewall, OSNews, TIME, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, VentureBeat, GrindGadget, VG247, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, Pastebin, ZDNet, Mashable!, TNL.net, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, The Next Web, SecurityWeek, CNET News, Gizmodo, Examiner and Slashdot
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
What is LulzSec afraid of? — Or stated differently …
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PC Magazine and Associated Press
Pearce H. Delphin / @zzap:
Brilliant! Just out: Hackers hacking hackers. Lulzsec/gn0sis/AnonOps dox'd; identification info released http://pd.cx/e3wng
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Pastebin, THN, i found the internet, @peaceful_anon, Examiner, @peaceful_anon, @failsec, @kencox, @b14ck4dd3r and @chatterb0xxx
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Google's SOE (Strategy of Everything) — As a Venture Capitalist, I occasionally hear entrepreneurs lay out a Strategy of Everything, a plan to be all things to all people. (SOE rhymes with TOE, the Theory of Everything, the Holy Grail of mathematical physics, only less attainable than the sacred object...)
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CNET News and AppleInsider
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How to Bypass the New York Times Paywall In Three Seconds, Zero Hacking Required — If you're annoyed by the New York Times' stupid paywall, here's the secret trick to destroy it and read as many articles as you want. As this video shows, it only takes three seconds: — Step 1.
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Examiner, @centernetworks and Fast Company, Thanks:gizmodo
Zech Tesfa Yohannes / TechUnwrapped:
Geohot Now Working at Facebook — [Update No.1] We have added a video below showing where Joshua said he was working at Facebook. [Update No. 2] Gabe Rivera of Techmeme in a tweet found Geohot's page at Facebook.com/Geohot, and the first post at the top of page says" is Facebook …
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SlashGear, App Advice, iPhone Download Blog, RazorianFly, TiPb, Examiner, Yahoo! News, Electronista, @gaberivera, GrindGadget, Redmond Pie, MacGazette.net, Gadgets DNA, PC World, thinq_, iFans, Make, MacHackPC and iClarified, Thanks:pspfano
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Skype's Worthless Employee Stock Option Plan: Here's Why They Did It — Skype is being criticized for terminating employees immediately prior to the closing of the Microsoft acquisition, and people are assuming they're doing this to keep the value of those employees stock options.
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TechCrunch, A VC, The Business Insider, Boing Boing, Techie Buzz, @nivi, parislemon, Slashdot and Felix Salmon
Wall Street Journal:
Nokia, Siemens Fail to Find Investors for Joint Venture — Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG have shifted their focus to restructuring their joint venture in telecommunications-networking equipment, after failing to reach a deal with bidders for a controlling stake in the unprofitable business, people familiar with the matter said.
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Electronista and Reuters
Rebecca Boyle / Popular Science:
ISS Will Broadcast First Streaming HD Video of Earth — Hurricane Ivan From Space via Wikimedia Commons — Only a lucky few have ever seen what Earth looks like from space, with human impacts all but invisible and the blackness of space just beyond the horizon.
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DVICE, ExtremeTech and Gizmag Emerging …
Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
Microsoft trial to use UK TV signals for WiFi — A consortium led by Microsoft will begin a technology trial in the UK this week that should pave the way for new mobile broadband networks that can support bandwidth-hungry smartphones. The BBC, British Sky Broadcasting and BT are among …
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CNET News
Wall Street Journal:
Reid Hoffman — The venture capitalist on how to hit a fast-moving target in the second-wave Web boom — Reid Hoffman founded his first social site, called SocialNet, before Mark Zuckerberg had even started high school and has been in the vanguard of the social-media movement ever since.
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The Business Insider, @philippeveyt and @juliaangwin
Joel Lehman / JoelBlog:
AT&T's Rube Goldbergian Web Form — I recently bought AT&T DSL and documented their frustratingly over-engineered registration process. In short: a simple web-form system shouldn't end up installing Internet Explorer 8 for you. I think it's interesting particularly because no lean startup …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Oblong Has Built The Future Of Computing. I've Seen It. Used It. It's Beautiful. — “This is the next Macintosh-level of disruption.” — Over the past several years, I've followed pretty much every new thing in the technology space, and written about many of them.
Discussion:
Feld Thoughts and Electronista
Rob Moss / Personnel Today:
Monster to launch rival to LinkedIn with BeKnown Facebook app — Global job board Monster is to launch a professional networking platform on Facebook, which looks set to compete with the LinkedIn social network. — The Facebook application, called BeKnown, will enable Facebook's users …
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Mashable!, International Business Times and HRzone.co.uk
