Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff  —  Adapted from “Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever,” by Frank Sennett, to be published by St. Martin's Press on June 5.  ©2012 by Frank Sennett.  —  If you believe the rumored numbers, it would have been the biggest acquisition in Internet history—and you definitely should believe the numbers.

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”.

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.

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 …

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?

Stuxnet admission likely to have foreign policy consequences  —  Iran watchers remain concerned that a domestic political gambit may backfire.  —  Obama officials are taking a significant political gamble by admitting to creating Stuxnet.  —  Given the unofficial confirmation Friday …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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!

How a Secret Cyberwar Program Worked  —  Programmers at the National Security Agency and in the Israeli military created a series of worms to attack the computers that control Iran's nuclear enrichment center at Natanz.  The attacks were repeated for several years, and each time the programs varied to make them difficult to detect.

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.

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.