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November 17, 2012, 8:10 PM

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Mat Honan / Wired:

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore — You have a secret that can ruin your life. — It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal everything about you.

More: digitaltrends.com, BuzzFeed, Nextgov and The Verge

New York Post:

JFK worker busted in $1.9M iPad mini heist — He could star in “Dumbfellas.” — An airport worker has been accused of being the less-than-master-mind behind the theft of $1.9 million in iPad minis from JFK Airport, court papers revealed yesterday. — Federal agents were able …

More: PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Examiner, CNET, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Gothamist and iClarified

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 — Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling.

More: The Windows Blog, WMPoweruser and Neowin

Wall Street Journal:

Nintendo's Wii U Puts Hardware Strategy to the Test — Like its famous videogame character Super Mario in his latest game, Nintendo Co. is trying to outrun its enemies. — The company, coming off of its first annual loss in more than three decades, will start selling the Wii U in U.S. stores Sunday …

More: AllThingsD, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, Rough Type, Washington Post, BGR, PC World and Digits. Thanks:@mattlynley

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Apple's stock price falls to lowest point in six months — While short-term challenges remain, analysts are bullish on Apple's long-term. — On Friday Apple's stock price closed at $527.68 per share, the lowest it's been in six months. Since September, the company has lost about 25 percent …

More: Forbes, Seeking Alpha, Seeking Alpha, Forbes, Fortune, MarketWatch, Crazy Joys, ValueWalk and App Advice

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @mathewi and @convertbond

Reuters:

High-flying Apple falls to earth as investors fret over taxes

More: AllThingsD, The Dividend Daily, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, YCharts, TodaysiPhone.com, SiliconValley.com, Macworld Australia, The Slant, WPTV Newschannel 5, Northern Voices Online, InvestorPlace, Cult of Mac, Los Angeles Times, AppleInsider, Yahoo! Finance and TheStreet.com. Tweets: @johnwilander

Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry International:

Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution — We chat with members of the original Xbox team and Bungie in this special look back at the origins of a service that forever changed console gaming — Ten years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Live.

More: Xbox Live's Major Nelson, The Next Web, MCV: Home Stream, Kotaku, TechSpot, Bungie.net, WebProNews, Polygon, The Escapist, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and Engadget

Harry McCracken / TIME:

It's Too Early to Judge Early Windows 8 Sales — Three weeks after Windows 8′s launch, Windows guru/newshound Paul Thurrott says that one of his Microsoft sources has confided that the new software isn't meeting the company's sales expectations. Thurrott gives several explanations, including: Windows 8.

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Muhammad Lila / ABCNEWS:

Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members — Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. — In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.

More: Examiner, The Register, CNET, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Techdirt, Betabeat, Liquidmatrix Security Digest and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

iFixit:

Nexus 4 Teardown — The Nexus 4 landed in our inbox just in time for a Friday teardown-a-rama. Questions that linger in our minds: Is it good as a phone? No idea. We dived right into the Nexus 4for science! Will it blend? We'll let Tom answer that one. How repairable is it?

More: PC Magazine, Mobile Magazine, Phones Review, IntoMobile, 9to5Google and Engadget

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter and developers, a love story — To say that Twitter and third-party developers have had an ambivalent relationship over the last couple of years is a massive understatement. Twitter has been undergoing a deep transformation of its business to one that makes sustainable sense as a public company.

More: Daring Fireball, Marco.org, VentureBeat and BuzzFeed

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet — Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded Verizon's downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless — At Broad Street, near the tip of Lower Manhattan, the situation is far from normal.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple and Google Talk Arbitration in Smartphone Spat — Apple and Google haven't yet buried their respective hatchets over the patent litigation between them, but evidently they are willing to put them aside for a moment in the hopes of negotiating a broader peace.

More: Forbes, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Bloomberg

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