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June 1, 2012, 11:15 PM

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

After Years Of Flirting, Facebook And Apple Set To Achieve Relationship Status In iOS 6 — There's been a lot of flirting going on in recent months between Apple and Facebook. In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a group of investors that Facebook was “the one company that is closest to being like Apple”.

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, iPhone, The Next Web, The Verge, MacStories, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM, SlashGear, Pocketnow, MacRumors, DVICE, Gizmodo and MobileBurn.com

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran — WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …

Guilbert Gates / New York Times:

How a Secret Cyberwar Program Worked

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Confirmed: US, Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:

How Obama Was Dangerously Naive About STUXNET and Cyberwarfare

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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

When Facebook goes down, the Internet barely blinks — Facebook went down for a few hours last night, causing people to turn to Twitter to complain, quip and mourn. But despite the outsized reactions from the site's 901 million users, the web itself barely felt the shock of losing the largest social network on the planet.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat and msnbc.com

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

BAD FOR BIZ: Facebook's Outage Hammered E-Commerce Sites Worldwide

More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Web Performance Monitoring … and WebProNews

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Microsoft Smart Glass coming at E3, AirPlay-style streaming from iOS, Android and Windows Phone? — Windows 8 is coming and it features more and better Xbox integration than we've yet seen in an operating system from the company — but it looks like Microsoft has something even bigger up its sleeve.

More: Examiner, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, Joystiq, Geek.com, Pocket-lint, Redmond Pie, I4U News, wmpoweruser.com, Neowin, Kotaku, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Shiny Objects, GamesIndustry International and VG247

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

iOS 6: Higher hanging fruit — Features and functionality from Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone and more, still ripe for iOS 6 inspiration — What will Apple bring to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 6? What will be the “tentpole” features to take Apple's mobile software into 2013?

More: Mobile Magazine

Bloomberg:

Twitter Said To Expect $1 Billion In Sales In 2014 On Ad Growth — Twitter Inc. expects to generate at least $1 billion in sales in 2014, two people with knowledge of the matter said, indicating that the blogging service will grow about twice as fast as some analysts now predict.

More: GigaOM, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mashable! and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:

Ex-Employee: The Worst Thing About Google Is Google+ — Spencer Tipping left Google about a month ago. We know this because he's written a blog post saying as much, and listing all of the pros and cons about working for Google. Juicy! Kind of. If you're into programming, mostly.

More: spencertipping's blog, Business Insider and parislemon

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google to head Apple off at the pass by holding 3D Maps event on June 6th, just before WWDC — We just got an invite in our inbox to an interesting Google event centered around Google Maps. The invite says we're invited to an event that will show off The Next Dimension of Google Maps, so we're betting its related to 3D.

iFixit:

Samsung Galaxy S III Teardown — Anxious to have the Galaxy in the palm of your hand? Join us as we take an exciting sneak peek at the Samsung Galaxy S III, the appropriately-named successor to the Galaxy S II. Images provided courtesy of Chipworks!

More: Engadget, Recent Teardowns, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac and The Verge

Lex Friedman / Macworld:

Sandboxing deadline arrives: What it means for Apple, developers, and you — Depending upon whom you ask, Friday, June 1 is the best or worst thing to come to the Mac App Store since it opened its doors in 2011. As of now, new and significantly updated apps submitted to Apple's Mac App Store must implement sandboxing.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th — Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group …

More: The Verge, Betabeat, Facebook Newsroom, digitaltrends.com, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, Inside Facebook, Techland, WebProNews, The Next Web, NBC Bay Area, The Register and CNET

David Cohen / AllFacebook:

Facebook's Proposed Revisions To Statement Of Rights And Responsibilities, Data Use Policy Up For Vote Through June 8

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Dear Ari Emanuel: We're All Meeting On The Internet, Come Join Us — We recently posted about Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel's ridiculous demands that Google somehow find the magic “stop piracy” button. That story is turning into something much more interesting.

More: CNET, AllThingsD, 9to5Google and The Verge

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @nytimesbits

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Windows 8: Why I'm struggling with Microsoft's new thing — The debut of the Windows 8 Release Preview yesterday was a key milestone in Microsoft's march to release its new operating system later this year. — I've been using different versions of Windows 8 off and on since last September …

More: Examiner and Ars Technica

Bing:

Social Meets Search with the Latest Version of Bing, Available to Everyone in US Today — A few weeks ago, we introduced you to the most significant update to Bing since our launch three years ago, combining the best of search with relevant people from your social networks, including Facebook and Twitter.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, ValueWalk, the Econsultancy blog, Marketing Pilgrim, PC Magazine, TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Seattle Times, Engadget, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, The Verge and Search Engine Land

Brian Heater / Engadget:

AT&T CEO predicts data-only plans within two years — The fact that modern smartphones still actually make voice calls may well come as a surprise to many users happy to use their mobile devices as pocket-sized computers. Carriers, on the other hand, seem content to keep the “phone” in smartphone.

More: TechnoBuffalo, CNET, NBC Bay Area, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile and Pocketnow. Tweets: @taylorbuley

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Sharp's 498 ppi LCD hopes to kickstart the crystal IGZO transistor revolution — It's been said that the human eye can't perceive individual pixels from cellphone-wielding distance at over 300 or so per inch, but the photographs Sharp had loaded on its prototype display were stunningly crisp and detailed.

More: sharp-world.com, Associated Press, Engadget, The Tech Report, My Nokia Blog, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena and Softpedia News

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Bob Pittman to Join Board of Soon-to-Launch Airtime — Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman will join the board of Airtime, the soon-to-launch video start-up from Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning. — Pittman, who founded MTV, was formerly COO of AOL and CEO of MTV Networks before joining Clear Channel last year.

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Netflix toppled Apple as top U.S. online movie biz in 2011 — Summary: Netflix grew to account for nearly 50 percent of the domestic online movie market in 2011, while Apple lost nearly half of its own slice of the pie. — Despite a roller coaster year with a lot of missteps …

More: Market Intelligence, digitaltrends.com, Computerworld, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, ValueWalk and VentureBeat. Tweets: @carlesdijous. See also Mediagazer

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Nokia acknowledges nano-SIM decision, now says it's ‘prepared’ to license essential patents — Nokia had been waging the loudest opposition in recent months to Apple's nano-SIM proposal, a mild evolution of the micro-SIM currently found in the iPhone 4 and 4S (among others).

More: VentureBeat, MobileBurn.com and ETSI

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

ETSI chooses Apple-inspired proposal for new 4FF nano-SIM standard

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Judge won't bar Steve Jobs quotes from patent trial — (Reuters) - Steve Jobs gave a lot of juicy quotes before he died, and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has failed to keep some of them out of an upcoming patent trial against Google's (GOOG.O) Motorola Mobility unit, according to a court ruling.

More: CNET

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Wow! Apple Turns Over Its Inventory Once Every 5 *Days* — Apple turns over its inventory once every five days. — That's part of why a new report from the technology research firm, Gartner, ranked Apple's supply chain the best in the world. And it's pretty amazing when you think about it.

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