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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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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, @failsec, @chatterb0xxx, @kencox and @b14ck4dd3r
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
What's inside LulzSec's final data dump — As we reported earlier, LulzSec says that it has bowed out of the limelight for good after fifty days of headline-grabbing hacking of corporate and governmental targets. Along with its final statement, it released a data dump including a wide range of information.
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Digital Trends and @lulzsec
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
What is LulzSec afraid of? — Or stated differently: Have the ill-winds of fate caught the Lulz Boat's sails? — Today, quite unexpectedly, LulzSec Security announced its retirement. “This is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us.
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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Digital Trends, Electronista, @gaberivera, Make, iPhone Download Blog and MacHackPC, Thanks:pspfano
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.
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Feld Thoughts, Electronista and GottaBeMobile
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
How The Food Network Suddenly Spiked In Popularity & Why comScore Isn't Buying It — In May 2011, the mantle of the most-trafficked food site according to comScore passed to Food Network from AllRecipes, who had held the position for over two years. What was its secret recipe?
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iOS 5 supports over-the-air software updates via 3G networks — In early May, we reported that Apple is bringing a long-awaited over-the-air iOS software update feature to iOS 5. Sure enough, Apple announced the feature as a part of their iOS devices become PC-free initiative …
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MacRumors, Electronista, iFans, GrindGadget, Redmond Pie, RazorianFly, Gizmodo and iPodNN, Thanks:markgurman
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Shuts Down A Large Number Of Applications — Over the past couple days Facebook has been shutting down a large number applications due to changes to the automated platform monitoring system. — This morning many developers took to the Facebook dev forums to complain about the issue.
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TechCrunch and Security Watch
Rocky Agrawal / reDesign:
Sam Altman will clean your house for $5 — That's right, the CEO of Loopt will personally clean your house for $5. But only if 1,000 people sign up. Only, I haven't told him about the deal yet. He may not agree, but I'm using his name anyway. Hell, he doesn't know I've put this offer out there.
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@rakeshlobster
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
An Epic conversation between Steve Jobs and developers from WWDC 97 — It is always fantastic to get a blast from the past, and DHH linked to a conversation between Steve Jobs' and developers from WWDC in 1997. — I find it fascinating. Steve was back as an advisor, but not in as CEO yet …
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PBT Consulting
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
GOOGLE OFFERS REVEALED: Here Are The Secret Details About Google's Groupon-Killer — Google launched its Groupon-killer, “Offers,” in Portland, Oregon, about a month ago. — And now it's gearing up to launch in San Francisco and New York. — Could Offers become a massive new revenue stream for Google …
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The Business Insider, 9to5 Google, Gizmodo and Gannett Blog
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting — Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the company's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line.
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