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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere” — This last week we've all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her home ransacked a month ago. — Other than the sideshow of us getting dragged into the story, it seemed to be winding down yesterday.
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Laura Bly / USA Today:
Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story
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Robert Scoble / Google+:
What we can learn from AirBNB and #ransackgate
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Xinhua News Agency:
Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years — Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog — MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the biggest upsets …
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Adam Dachis / Lifehacker:
What You Need to Know About the Internet Snooping Bill (and How You Can Protect Yourself) — On Thursday, the US House of Representatives approved an internet snooping bill that requires internet service providers (ISPs) to keep records of customer activity for a year so police can review them as needed.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Windows XP PCs breed rootkit infections — Three-fourths of all rootkits on decade-old OS, says antivirus firm — Computerworld - Machines running the decade-old Windows XP make up a huge reservoir of infected PCs that can spread malware to other systems, a Czech antivirus company said today.
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David Gelles / Financial Times:
Inside Match.com — As president and key engineer, Mandy Ginsberg and Amarnath Thombre have taken the world's biggest dating site to a new level — Entering the offices of Match.com is a bit like strutting into a disco. Coloured lights flash from the ceilings, workers lounge on circular banquettes …
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J.B. / Fusible.com:
Apple wins dispute over iPods.com, domain name ordered transferred — WIPO Panelist David Cairns has ruled in favor of Apple in a dispute over the domain name ipods.com. — Apple filed the complaint at the end of May with the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Jake Davis named as suspected hacker Topiary by UK police — British police have tonight named the teenager they arrested in Shetland last week, in relation to the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. — Jake Davis, 18, will appear in court tomorrow. — Davis, reportedly …
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Apple lawsuit forces Amazon to stop accepting new “Appstore” apps in Germany — Apple's efforts to get Amazon to stop using the word “Appstore” to describe its app store have not been successful yet. — But Apple has caused Amazon some trouble in Germany: Amazon has recently stopped accepting …
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Louis Gray:
Topify to Go Dark as Twitter Claims Another Dev Victim — Back in 2009, Topify emerged with detailed Twitter follower notifications, which made the service useful at a time when Twitter's own notifications were text only and didn't provide any information about the user.
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@samj, The Equity Kicker, Newsome.Org and Topify Blog
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Former Bush NSA director calls for ‘digital Blackwater’ — The man who headed the NSA and CIA under President George W. Bush suggested Friday that mercenaries were needed to deal with growing cyber threats. — Gen. Michael Hayden told the Aspen Security Forum that in the near future …
Jillian York / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A Case for Pseudonyms — pseu ·do ·nym —noun a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. — There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with. They may be concerned about threats …
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Bianca Bosker / The Huffington Post:
Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online ‘Has To Go Away’
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
The end of easy growth in smartphones — At the end of last year I was saying that the smartphone boom was a tide that lifted all boats. That is no longer the case. — But the big story is that there has been a clear non-seasonal counter-cyclical decline in Nokia and RIM's smartphone performance.
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