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October 1, 2013, 8:30 AM

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Facebook:
Graph Search Now Includes Posts and Status Updates  —  Starting today, Graph Search will include posts and status updates.  Now you will be able to search for status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments to find things shared with you.  —  Search for the topics you're interested …
Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair:
An anecdotal look at the enabling role of social apps in the sexual interactions of teens  —  Friends Without Benefits  —  This year, 81 percent of Internet-using teenagers in America reported that they are active on social-networking sites, more than ever before.
BBC:
Nasa plans first 3D printer space launch in 2014  —  US space agency Nasa is planning to launch a 3D printer into space next year to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity.  —  It will be the first time a 3D printer has been used in space and could help reduce the costs of future missions.
Nick Heath / ZDNet:
Why the blue screen of death no longer plagues Windows users  —  Summary: The dreaded blue screen of death is familiar to any long time Windows PC user, but Microsoft has been developing tools to keep the dreaded BSOD at bay.  —  Nick Heath  —  Remember the blue screen of death …
Tweets: @stevesi
Felix Salmon:
Dave Eggers' poor understanding of Silicon Valley and social media undermines his new dystopian novel The Circle  —  How Dave Eggers gets Silicon Valley wrong  —  Dave Eggers' new book, a dystopian fantasia about social media, is excerpted in the NYT Magazine this weekend.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Continues Its One-Click Campaign To Be Your Default Photo Library  —  If you've been watching Dropbox at all over the last couple of years, you'll be completely unsurprised at a new feature announced today.  The apps on Mac have gained the ability to automatically detect …
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:
BitTorrent experiments with secure chat  —  Does the solution to secure instant messaging from prying eyes lie in how torrents work?  BitTorrent thinks it might, and is testing out a server-free messaging system.  —  The aftermath of the NSA spying scandal has people and companies scrambling …
Daniel Cawrey / CoinDesk:
Bitcoin's role in the future of micropayments  —  Different payment processors have different opinions on the definition of a microtransaction, commonly known as a miniscule payment for a good or service.  —  Small businesses in the US like to require that customers make at least a $10 transaction on a credit or debit card.
Eric Jackson / Forbes:
Why Alan Mulally Would Be A Terrible Choice As The Next Microsoft CEO  —  Kara Swisher reported last week that Alan Mulally is now a front-runner for the job as Microsoft's next CEO.  —  Previously, he had been rumored to be a wildcard candidate for the job but one who was unlikely to leave his current post at Ford.
More: Computerworld and WebProNewsTweets: @karaswisher
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show  —  • Vast amounts of data kept in repository codenamed Marina  —  • Data retained regardless of whether person is NSA target  —  • Material used to build ‘pattern-of-life’ profiles of individuals
Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:
Square Competitor Leaf Scores $20 Million Investment From Payments Giant Heartland  —  For a while, it wasn't clear how payments startup Leaf would get the distribution it needed to compete against Square and others trying to reinvent point-of-sale technologies for small and medium-size businesses.
More: BostInno and Xconomy
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Settle With Friends?  Zynga and Bang With Friends End Trademark Dispute.  —  Sometimes, even the rockiest of relationships end up parting ways amicably.  —  Social gaming giant Zynga and the makers of Bang With Friends, the casual sex matchmaking application, have reached a settlement on Monday …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Samsung's ChatON messaging service passes 100 million registered users  —  Samsung has today announced that ChatON, its cross-platform mobile messaging service, has passed 100 million registered users.  The company claims it has added 50 million new sign-ups over the last four months.
Lucian Constantin / PC World:
Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess  —  The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Huawei is rotating its CEO every six months to stay fresh  —  Huawei, the multi-billion dollar Chinese telecom infrastructure and mobile device maker, just announced a new CEO — but only for the next six months.  Eric Xu will be the acting CEO of Huawei from October 1st to March 31st under …

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