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June 12, 2012, 3:05 PM
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Verizon Overhauls Its Rate Plans, Focusing on Shared Data
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis  —  I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible.  Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving users enough reasons to want this thing.
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Andy Hertzfeld blasts Apple over Mac Pro neglect  —  Hertzfeld argues that “the only thing that's still high-end about [the Mac Pro] is the bloated price.”  —  Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team and current Google employee, has taken a swipe at his former employer over the Mac Pro.
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
The Antivirus Era Is Over  —  Conventional security software is powerless against sophisticated attacks like Flame, but alternative approaches are only just getting started.  Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame …
Steven Russolillo / MarketBeat:
Zynga Shares Plunge Below $5; Circuit Breaker Triggered  —  Zynga shares are getting pummeled today as broad worries about the company's user base have triggered yet another selloff.  —  Zynga dropped as much as 13%, tripped a short-sale circuit breaker and fell below $5 …
Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
Exclusive: Sprint Touch Wallet slides show carrier is serious about NFC wallet app  —  Last week we heard that Sprint was developing their own NFC-based mobile wallet application, and today an insider has passed along to us a couple presentation slides to let us know that it's real.
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Facebook's Camera app gets a new name: Camera  •.  Yes, “•”  —  When Facebook launched its Camera app, many of us noticed that when it was displayed on your home screen, it simply said “Camera.”  How could Apple let them get away with that, as its the same name as their own built-in app?
Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel:
Habbo exposed as paedophile haven  —  Balderton Capital will return its 13 per cent stake in social gaming company Sulake at zero value after learning that one of the company's products, Habbo, is to be engulfed in a child sex scandal by Channel 4.  —  Finnish social gaming company Sulake …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Hipmunk Plans to Take Off Internationally With $15 Million in New Capital  —  Hipmunk, the offbeat travel site that has made “taking the agony out of travel planning” its tagline, tells AllThingsD that it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding.  —  The financing will enable …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft offers glimpse of Office 2013 on Windows RT tablet  —  Summary: Office 2013 RT seems to be the final branding for the Office 15 apps that will run on Windows RT tablets, based on a demo during a Microsoft TechEd presentation.  —  The June 12 Microsoft TechEd keynote was billed as being all about Windows 8 for business.
iFixit:
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2012 Teardown  —  Apple announced the updated MacBook Air yesterday at WWDC, so, naturally, we're taking one apart.  Join us as we dig into the new 13" MacBook Air, equipped with USB 3.0 and MagSafe 2.  You like what you see?  Want to see more?
More: Gizmodo and MacRumors
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Google's Tim Bray drafts new HTTP status code for censorship  —  XML co-inventor and Android Developer Advocate Tim Bray is submitting a draft for a new HTTP Status Code to be used when resources aren't available because of legal restrictions.  The code, 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify App Soundrop Tunes Into First Investment: $3M From Spotify Lead Backer Northzone  —  Spotify's move last year to open its platform to other apps has created more stickiness for its streamed music services.  Now, one of the startups based around that idea has found some traction of its own …
Owen Thomas / Business Insider:
Twitter Has Moved Into Its New Office, And It's Gorgeous  —  It's a beautiful day in San Francisco: sunny but not too hot, a nice breeze but not too windy.  —  So a lot of Twitter employees had lunch out on the rooftop garden of their office.  —  Their brand-new office, that is …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Siri's Nemesis Evi Relaunches, Recruits Berkowitz From Wolfram Alpha, Opens US Office  —  We saw what happened yesterday with the Siri announcements from Apple.  Clearly they see it as core to their strategy and its deep integration inside iOS reflects its increasing importance.
More: ZDNet
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Facebook Says the Facebook Ads It Didn't Sell Work Great  —  Here's Facebook's retort to people who say Facebook ads don't work: A study that says people who see brand messages on the site spend more money on those brands, right away.  —  The catch: The study focuses on “earned media” …
Sara Yin / PC Magazine:
LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts  —  LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application.  —  The file contained an unusually detailed trove …
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Maps in iOS 6 will require A5 processor for 3D “flyover,” navigation  —  iPhone 3GS in particular will get a reduced feature set in iOS 6.  —  iOS 6 promises to bring lots of new features to iPhone and iPad users—more than 200, according to Apple's count.

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TMZ.com:
Sources: Paramount told the offices of LA Mayor Karen Bass and CA AG Rob Bonta the company would announce Tuesday it was leaving the state; no announcement came

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Joe Buck agreed to a new, six-year contract with ESPN worth ~$108M that will keep him as the voice of Monday Night Football through the 2031 Super Bowl

Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Three die in the crash of a helicopter providing news coverage for NBC Los Angeles, including photojournalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw

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