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June 7, 2012, 10:50 AM

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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

MD5 password scrambler ‘no longer safe’ — Summary: MD5 encryption is “no longer considered safe” by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords. — The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithm has publicly declared …

More: phk.freebsd.dk, dailywireless.org, Out-Law News, Bits and The H Security

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

That Was Fast: Criminals Exploit LinkedIn Breach For Phishing Attacks — After hackers posted millions of encoded LinkedIn passwords to a Russian hacker site on Wednesday, criminals used news of the breach to trick unsuspecting users into downloading malware that can be used to extract financial gain.

More: CNET, ZDNet, ESET ThreatBlog, Tech Daily Dose, Pulse2 Technology …, SocialTimes, MediaNama and VentureBeat

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Like LinkedIn, eHarmony is hacked; 1.5 million passwords stolen — A screenshot of insidepro.com, the site used by a hacker to dump two lists containing 8 million stolen passwords from LinkedIn and eHarmony. — EHarmony, the popular online dating site, was the target of a password hacking attack …

More: ABCNEWS, eHarmony Blog, Betabeat, TechEye, PC World, PC World, SlashGear, Telegraph, CNET, Reuters, Mashable!, Ars Technica, msnbc.com, The Register, Gizmodo, Guardian, The Verge, The Next Web, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, memeburn and Softpedia News

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords

Ryan Singel / Wired:

IE 10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death — Well, that didn't take long. — The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software.

More: CNET, TechEye, Engadget, ZDNet, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge and Boing Boing

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Twitter's mobile revenue surpassed Web on many days: CEO — (Reuters) - Twitter has generated more advertising revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the last quarter, CEO Dick Costolo said Wednesday, highlighting Twitter's progress in squeezing ad dollars …

More: AllTwitter, Business Insider, Social Markets and The Verge

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Twitter Product VP Satya Patel Steps Down As Its Products and Ad Business Grow

Dan Farber / CNET:

Twitter hits 400 million tweets per day, mostly mobile

More: FierceMobileContent, AllThingsD, GadgeTell, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo UK, Business Insider and The Next Web

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Confirmed: Sprint's Virgin Mobile second US carrier to offer prepaid iPhone; from June 29, plans start at $30 — Apple's push into the US prepaid market has been given another significant boost after Sprint-owned Virgin Mobile announced that it will become the second operator to offer the iPhone to its customers.

Bloomberg:

HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows — HTC Corp. (2498) is being shut out of the introduction of Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s next Windows software, people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting off another source of revenue after HTC reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by 13 percent.

More: Inquirer, PhoneArena, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Fast Company, ZDNet, VentureBeat, CNET, Phones Review, Pocketables, Pocketnow and Geek.com

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Video hands-on with the purported next-generation iPhone metal back — In late May, we had exclusive high-resolution photos of both black and white next-generation iPhone backs. These backs showed a brand-new, thinner design with a smaller dock connector, new speaker grills, and a new metal back plate.

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

The all new foursquare launches to cash in on “making the real world easier to use” — Foursquare has been teasing the fact that it was about to launch a brand new version this week, and we've been following all of the clues on what it might potentially entail.

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Foursquare Rolls Out App Redo: New Likes, Better Recommendations, Visually Simpler

More: WebProNews, Lifehacker, MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo and GadgeTell

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple wants to keep Samsung's Galaxy S3 out of U.S. — Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — Excited shoppers weren't the only ones buying Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month.

More: VentureBeat, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Macworld, AllThingsD, BGR, TechSpot, Reuters, TechEye, Examiner, IntoMobile, The inneractive Blog, Android News, Rumours …, MobileBurn.com, Engadget and PC Magazine

Youkyung Lee / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:

Samsung fights Apple move to block Galaxy sales

More: MobileBurn.com, The Verge, ZDNet and PhoneArena

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop — This is the ClamBook, a super-sleek, airier-that-Air thingamajig that has a 16:9 widescreen, a keyboard, and a battery. It will turn your iPhone or Android cell into a beautiful, ultra-thin laptop.

More: Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista and The Verge

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Google deploying planes over cities for 3D maps — (Reuters) - Google Inc is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities, the Internet search company's latest step in its ambitious and sometimes controversial plan to create a photo-based map of the world.

More: The Official Google Blog, dailywireless.org and ZDNet

MG Siegler:

What Google Maps Actually Just Unveiled: Anxiety Over Apple Maps

More: 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, The Register, Bits, Search Engine Land, Network World, Technovia and Computerworld

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Search beats display by large margin in mobile ad spending, study shows — Facebook better hurry up with that search engine it's reportedly building. A new survey of the mobile market shows that search ads are outstripping display ads by a wide margin in every region of the world.

More: AdExchanger.com and IAB

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Another Super Angel Levels Up: Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures Closes $70M — What happens when a super angel gets its wings? You become a boutique fund. — Or at least that's how Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures is putting it with a fresh fund worth about $70 million.

More: Social Markets, Bloomberg, GigaOM, Digits, PE Hub Blog and AllThingsD

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

An Ivy Bridge too far? AMD may have finally lost the battle against Intel's juggernaut — Welcome to Computex 2012, the coming-out party for Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU refresh and Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. The two halves of an irresistible hardware-software combination …

More: CNET

Steven Musil / CNET:

Import bans over patents cause ‘substantial harm,’ FTC says — Google's efforts to block imports of Microsoft's Xbox and Apple's iPhone could cause “substantial harm” to consumers, competition, and innovation, the Federal Trade Commission said in a letter today.

More: AllThingsD, FOSS Patents, Bloomberg and Seattle Times

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

Facebook's Answer To The App Store Is Days From Launching — Facebook's App Center, an App Store equivalent for Facebook applications, is launching in the coming days, according to a source briefed by Facebook on the service. — The launch date could be as soon as today or tomorrow, our source said.

More: CNET, Gizmodo and PhoneArena

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Google hit with patent claim over Google Drive — The growing popularity of cloud technology is attracting not just users but patent lawsuits too. The latest example is a suit filed against Google that claims the company's Drive and Docs products violate a 1999 software patent.

More: ZDNet and Wired

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

How Google and Microsoft taught search to “understand” the Web — Inside the architecture of Google's Knowledge Graph and Microsoft's Satori. — Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson — Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine companies to crawling …

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Samsung Elec names components chief Kwon as new CEO — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS), Asia's technology powerhouse, reshuffled some of its top team on Thursday as it battles Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for supremacy in smartphones and leads the charge to new chip technology.

More: Reuters, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Phones Review, Fortune, Engadget, Bloomberg, Electronista, PhoneArena, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:

Windows Phone To Top iOS Market Share By 2016, IDC Says — Peaking? — Now here's a bold prediction. — By the end of 2016, according to International Data Corp., Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will inch ahead of Apple's iOS to become the world's #2 mobile operating system.

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Global Nerdy, Internet2Go, VR-Zone and AppleInsider

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

HipSwap wants to be a Craigslist for the Pinterest set — Second-hand stuff has never looked so sexy. Thanks to a redesign rolling out Thursday, HipSwap, an online marketplace for local goods, is now like a Craigslist re-imagined for Fab and Pinterest fans: Lots of pictures, curated collections …

More: Los Angeles Times, socalTECH.com and PandoDaily

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

New Mac spec sheet leaks out, WWDC launch pricing and naming included — . — The image above represents the full pricing matrix for new devices expected to unveil in a few days at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You will notice the Mac Pros, Retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs that we discussed before at length.

More: GigaOM, Computerworld, Fast Company, M.I.C. Gadget, blog.chron.com, eWeek, Softpedia News and Pulse2 Technology …

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