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June 2, 2012, 7:55 PM

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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

The Instagram Effect? Mobile Photo Sharing App PicPlz To Shut Down Permanently On July 3 — PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3. — PicPlz delivered the news through …

More: GigaOM, The Next Web, Mashable! and blog plz

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Exclusive: new Verizon FiOS plans coming June 17th, 300Mbps service to cost $204.99 per month — Verizon offered up quite the tease last week when it revealed that it was boosting speeds on its FiOS internet plans while refusing to detail how much it was going to charge for each tier.

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Android 4.0 now on 7.1 percent of devices, still woefully behind previous versions — Google tracks the different version numbers of Android devices that access Google Play (nee Android Market) and every month or two we check in to see how the latest versions are doing.

More: Ars Technica, 9to5Google, PC World, PC Magazine, Android Police, MobileBurn.com and Engadget

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S II for T-Mobile getting ICS on June 11th

More: GadgeTell, Softpedia News, Mashable!, AndroidGuys, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Sammy Hub, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM and Engadget

Jacob Aron / New Scientist:

Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers' — People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also found that most of us choose passwords that are less secure than security experts recommend.

More: VentureBeat, threatpost, Tecca, SlashGear, CNET, Mashable!, Geekosystem, BGR and Slashdot

Fortune:

Tim Stevens is the nicest guy in tech — Not to mention one of the most powerful. The editor in chief of Engadget plays a crucial — if not always acknowledged — role in the $190 billion consumer electronics industry. And, in a cast of blowhards and rascals, he's a different sort of editor …

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @tim_stevens

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Movies.io Reinvents Movie Torrents, With Style — Every year hundreds of new torrent sites are launched, but only a few manage to rise to the top. Movies.io is one of these newcomers, and since it has something unique to offer it is likely to stick around.

David Smith:

iAd's Hopefully Long Future — Following Tim Cook's appearance at the D10 conference I've heard murmors questioning the future of iAd. Specifically Tim was asked by a Google exec about Apple's advertising business, he replied that it wasn't one of the legs of Apple's stool.

Frank Sennett / Wall Street Journal:

Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff — If you believe the rumored numbers, it would have been the biggest acquisition in Internet history—and you definitely should believe the numbers. In the fall of 2010, search giant Google GOOG -1.70% offered nearly $6 billion to buy Groupon …

More: Pulse2 Technology … and Business Insider

Wailin Wong / Chicago Tribune:

Lock-up over, Groupon shares tumble 9%

More: Business Insider, Investor's Business Daily, MarketWatch, reDesign, Reuters, VentureBeat and The Next Web

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Stuxnet admission likely to have foreign policy consequences — Given the unofficial confirmation Friday that the United States was behind Stuxnet—the malware designed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program—political and technical experts suggest that this may effectively put the United States …

More: dailywireless.org

Guilbert Gates / New York Times:

How a Secret Cyberwar Program Worked

More: Examiner and ZDNet

Ron Amadeo / Android Police:

Mysterious New Files In The Google Maps 6.8 APK: History Timeline, Latitude G+ Integration, And More — So Google Maps hit version 6.8 yesterday, bringing with it the crazy Zagat/Google+ mashup that was detailed earlier. The “What's New” section in the Play Store lists …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Android and Me and The Next Web

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile USA leaks with Euro-style home button — The Verge has just received pictures of T-Mobile USA's branded Galaxy S III from Samsung that's expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The strangest thing about the leaked phone is what isn't different about it …

More: Sammy Hub, Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, Android Phone Fans, Android News, Rumours …, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Android and Me, IntoMobile and 9to5Google

Eduard Kovacs / Softpedia News:

CloudFlare Reports Breach, UGNazi Takes Credit — A few hours ago, CloudFlare issued a statement admitting that hackers managed to gain access to the email accounts of Matthew Prince, the co-founder and CEO of the company. — “This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account …

More: CloudFlare blog

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