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3:40 PM ET, May 31, 2008

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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Phoenix to Earthlings: I've Landed!  Awesome!  —  @infoholic Yup, I can dig into frozen ground as hard as concrete.  The scoop has special blades and a powered “rasp” to scrape ice.  Cool!  —  Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?
Dr. Jim Anderson / The Business Of IT:
Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies  —  The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years:  — Multicore and hybrid processors  — Virtualization and fabric computing  — Social networks and social software
Nick / Rough Type:
Understanding Amazon Web Services  —  There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application.  Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a traditional computer company, has become the most successful early mover …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos  —  Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was one of the attendees at this week's D6 Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., to be interviewed on stage, where he talked about Kindle at length.  But right after his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher …
Kristina Peterson / Mercury News:
Teens say they were banned from Apple stores for life, company denies it  —  Four Palo Alto teenagers raised in the heart of Silicon Valley got the scare of their lives when they thought they might be banished from all Apple stores worldwide, for life.  —  Their crime, the teens said …
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All  —  SAN DIEGO — Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated.  The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company …
Discussion: Threat Level and Slashdot
Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Clerical error exposes Google as anonymous eBay critic  —  Screen grab of the submission to the ACCC showing Google's “fingerprints”.  —  The Australian competition watchdog has accidentally revealed Google as the anonymous source of a submission that is highly critical of eBay's proposal …
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Register
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Billboards That Look Back  —  In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are.  All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.  —  Billboards are a different story.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Subnotebook vs. UMPC vs. Netbook: WTF Is the Difference?  —  When Blam broke the news on Dell's mini Inspiron, there was one he was stuck on: How to categorize it.  Is it a subnotebook?  A UMPC?  A netbook?  (Knowing the specs might have helped, but probably not much.)
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
TheWB.com Opens for a Peek  —  The WB private-beta-launched its anticipated new portal of old shows tonight, and I just had a chance to take a look around.  The site looks nice enough and promises some interesting features, but there's a lot left unfinished — like the original online shows we'd been promised.
Discussion: Mashable! and Lost Remote
Jim Carr / SC Magazine US:
Researchers breach Microsoft's CardSpace ID technology  —  Three security researchers in Germany have reportedly broken Microsoft's CardSpace, which was designed to beef up the security of users' personal information while browsing the internet.  —  The technique essentially co-opts part …
Associated Press:
Radiohead to Prince: Unblock ‘Creep’ cover videos  —  Radiohead tells Prince to unblock videos of his ‘Creep’ cover from Coachella  —  NEW YORK (Associated Press) - After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead's “Creep” at Coachella, the tens of thousands who couldn't be there ran to YouTube for a peek.
 
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Facebook ‘violates privacy laws’
Discussion: p2pnet and Threat Level
Phone Arena:
Motorola Adventure V750 is rugged
Electronista:
Bell Canada hit with class-action throttling lawsuit
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Apple Core Stops Selling Apple TV Hacking Dongle
Discussion: Engadget
Fred / A VC:
I Got Lucky  —  A recent commenter suggested that I blog …
Reuters:
Time Warner Cable to offer web to TV link
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Userplane, the Really Big Widget Ad Network
David Carnoy / CNET News.com:
New RCA Small Wonder video cams now available
 Earlier Items: 
DealBook:
A Letter to Facebook's Founder
Discussion: paidContent.org
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
War Without Soldiers
The Macalope:
How do you get to 10 million?
Discussion: The iPhone Blog
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (953818)
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Is there a management exodus at Bebo?
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Yahoo gets more social with new Messenger 9 beta
Discussion: CyberNet
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Dish/EchoStar sues TiVo over DVR patent