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May 14, 2012, 1:25 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple readies revamped 15-inch MacBook Pro: Retina Display, ultra-thin design, and super-fast USB 3  —  Mockup: New, thinner MacBook Pro on the left.  Current model on the right.  —  Apple is putting the finishing touches on an entirely new 15-inch MacBook Pro that is the outcome of years …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Yahoo Chief Told Board He Has Cancer  —  Before resigning as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. over the weekend, Scott Thompson disclosed to the company's board of directors and several colleagues that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, according to people familiar with the matter.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
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Stuart Sumner / Computing:
Apple OS “really vulnerable”, claims Kaspersky Lab CTO  —  Apple has invited security company Kaspersky Lab to advise it on the security of its Mac OS - according to the security provider's chief technology officer.  —  Speaking exclusively to Computing, Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov …
Zijing Wu / Bloomberg:
Facebook Said Set to Finish Taking IPO Orders Tomorrow  —  Facebook Inc. (FB) plans to stop taking orders for its initial public offering by tomorrow, two days ahead of schedule, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction.  —  The world's biggest social network …
Jeremy Singer-Vine / Wall Street Journal:
Kickstarter ‘Bug’ Exposed Projects  —  A security lapse at the popular crowd-funding website Kickstarter.com exposed more than 70,000 project ideas that weren't ready to be viewed.  —  The information that could be seen didn't include credit-card numbers or other sensitive personal details …
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront  —  In the past three and a half years, Amazon CloudFront has changed the content delivery landscape.  It has demonstrated that a CDN does not have to be complex to use with expensive contracts, minimum commits, or upfront fees …
Harry McCracken / Techland:
Fact-Checking Digitimes, the Taiwanese Apple Rumor Source That Keeps Crying ‘Wolf!’  —  “It's key to note that the DigiTimes has a hit-or-miss track record for nailing predictions....”  —  “Digitimes has a spotty track record with regard to Apple rumors...”
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Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
LinkedIn releases official Windows Phone app, and it's beautiful  —  LinkedIn has quietly released an official Windows Phone 7.5 application over the weekend (picked up earlier by Guardian, Neowin and many others).  I gave it a quick whirl, and the verdict is that it looks really fast …

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Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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