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June 1, 2012, 8:20 AM

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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 …

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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Confirmed: US, Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it — Stuxnet was never meant to propagate in the wild. — The new account is unlikely to alter Iran's view of the US, seen here in a mural on the old US embassy in Tehran — David Holt — In 2011, the US government rolled out its …

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Ynetnews:

Book links US to cyber-attacks on Iran

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview — Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger (and many more) …

David Pierce / The Verge:

Windows 8 Release Preview: new apps, improvements, and Flash support (hands-on) — Two months after unleashing Windows 8 upon the world, Microsoft's back with the latest step toward the release of the company's next operating system: the Windows 8 Release Preview.

More: ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, VentureBeat and VentureBeat

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Sees Future in Windows 8 Fueled by $58 Billion App Market: Tech — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is so eager to have a panoply of applications for the next version of its Windows operating system that it has lined up design firms, recruited interns and sent engineers on an around …

More: parislemon, Neowin, ZDNet and Ars Technica

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Windows 8 Store: A good start, but can it top Apple's App stores?

More: MSDN Blogs and Neowin

Jason Zander / MSDN Blogs:

Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5

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Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8 Release Preview: The Ultimate Delta Guide

John Letzing / Wall Street Journal:

Google Points Antitrust Finger at Microsoft, Nokia — Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe arguing that Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology.

More: Bloomberg, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, Engadget, FOSS Patents, All About Windows Phone, The Register, My Nokia Blog and Android Phone Fans

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Google's EU antitrust allegations against Microsoft and Nokia were dismissed by the ITC

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nokia calls Google's EC complaint a frivolous waste of time, notes Android's ‘problems with patents’

More: Reuters, PhoneArena and CNET

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads — SAN FRANCISCO — On Valentine's Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of ... personal lubricant. — He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook …

More: Betabeat and SocialTimes. Tweets: @cdixon

Bloomberg:

Acer, Toshiba To Take On IPads With Windows 8 Tablets — Acer Inc., Toshiba Corp. (6502) and Asustek Computer Inc. (2357) will unveil tablets running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 operating system next week, people with knowledge of the matter said, challenging the dominance of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad.

More: Fast Company, Ubergizmo, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, Neowin, Phones Review, The Verge, Pocket-lint and I4U News

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

ETSI chooses Apple's proposal for new 4FF nano-SIM standard — Despite objections and criticism over the different proposals for a new 4FF (nano-SIM) standard, Apple's nano-SIM proposal has been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), edging out submissions from Nokia, RIM and Motorola.

More: ETSI, Engadget and The Verge

Reuters:

Facebook makes a comeback, options volume soars — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc bounced back from record lows in frenetic trading on Thursday to finish in positive territory for the first time in four days, lifted in late trade by a U.S. market rebound and a brokerage upgrade.

More: TechCrunch, The Register, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, Associated Press, International Business Times, Los Angeles Times and CNNMoney.com

Vygantas / Web Browser:

Facebook Drops Google Chrome Recommendation, Replaces It With Opera — More fuel to the rumor's fire. — It looks like Facebook management decided not to bother with the Google Chrome anymore as their latest “unsupported web browsers” page has since then removed the search giant's web browser.

More: CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, BGR and WebProNews

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

The Rumored iPhone 5′s Four Inch Front Panel Can Nearly Swallow An Old iPhone Whole — Another day, another iPhone 5 leak. This time we're looking at a four-inch long front panel of what appears to be a new iPhone. This panel suggests a longer, 16:9 style body and screen and lines …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Softpedia News, BGR, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Pocketnow, CNET, MacRumors and Gizmodo

Ryan Singel / Wired:

In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do Not Track’ Default for IE 10 — Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial “Do Not Track” feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potential threat to online advertising giants.

More: ZDNet, TechNet Blogs, Engadget, Help Net Security, Business Wire, MSDN Blogs, Neowin, Washington Post and Digits

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not covered by copyright law, related claims against Google dismissed — Things weren't looking good for Oracle after the jury found that Google hadn't infringed upon the company's patents in the second phase of the trial, but the issue of infringement of the structure …

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns — FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns a House committee that Google, iTunes, Facebook, and Netflix could face new international taxes. — (Credit: U.S. House of Representatives) — Democratic and Republican government officials warned …

More: Reuters, Google Public Policy Blog, digitaltrends.com, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Reuters, The Register and Geekosystem

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

New Netflix iOS app capitulates to bandwidth caps — Carriers like Verizon and AT&T are trying to convince Netflix to pay for the bandwidth its subscribers consume on their networks. Today Netflix delivered a rather oblique response. It's giving its iPhone customers the option …

More: SlashGear, PhoneArena, ITProPortal, The Official Netflix Blog, TechCrunch, Macgasm and PC Magazine

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Auto-Sharing Spam With “10-Second Rule” — If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you're in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline.

More: parislemon and Inside Facebook

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube — Web Giant Spends Millions in Aim to Aquire .Google, .Docs and Many Others — Last month, Google told Ad Age that it was poised to go on a web-domain buying spree. Today, the company announced in a blog post …

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains

More: The Register, Inquirer, WebProNews, The Verge, Engadget, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Tech Daily Dose and The Domains

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