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10:30 PM ET, Sep 5, 2010

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Adrian Chen / Gawker: Your Post-Craigslist Guide to Buying Sex Online — As you've probably heard, Craigslist shut down its ‘Adult Services’ section this weekend, caving to pressure from Attorneys General and anti-trafficking groups.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down — Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the [Erotic Services] Adult Services section of their site.

Randall Stross / New York Times: A Strong Password Isn't the Strongest Security — MAKE your password strong, with a unique jumble of letters, numbers and punctuation marks. But memorize it — never write it down.

Wall Street Journal: Mark Hurd in Talks With Oracle — Mark Hurd, who resigned as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. last month, is in talks to join Oracle Corp. as a top executive, people familiar with the matter said.

Newsweek: Efforts Afoot to Oust Assange as WikiLeaks Leader — As frontman for wikileaks.org, Julian Assange, the floppy-haired Australian computer hacker …

Sponsor Post Techmeme News: Join Techmeme in New York City for a screening of CATFISH (that “other Facebook movie") — Last week I was invited to an advance screening of CATFISH …

John Markoff / New York Times: The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You — SACRAMENTO — Dr. Alan Shatzel's pager beeped at 9 on a Saturday morning. A man had suffered a stroke …

Sean Hollister / Engadget: HTC's dual-mode CDMA / GSM Android slider hits the FCC, decked out in shades of Verizon — Remember that big, honking red-and-black HTC slider that dwarfed an EVO 4G?

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: The Real Social Network: Your Mobile Contacts — The term “social network” is of course synonymous with online networks like Facebook. But think about what you're actual social life is like for a second.

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: Emergency Facetime calls? — Interesting little button on lower right hand corner of the 4th generation iPod touch Passcode screen. — Is this another Photoshop error by Apple's web artisans?

Sponsor Post Microsoft BizSpark: BizSpark Startup of the Day - Retrevo — The BizSpark startup of the day is Retrevo, based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Manish Rathi, Co-Founder & VP-Marketing of Retrevo.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation — If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press …

Michael Stevens / Security Week: Defense Department's Cyberwar Credibility Gap — Undersecretary of Defense William J. Lynn has published an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine redefining …

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