Haswell is here: we detail Intel's first 4th-generation Core CPUs  —  Quad-core chips for laptops and desktops are first, with dual-cores to follow.  —  Intel has been releasing information about Haswell, its next-generation CPU architecture, for months now.

U.S. and China Will Hold Talks About Hacking  —  WASHINGTON — The United States and China have agreed to hold regular, high-level talks on how to set standards of behavior for cybersecurity and commercial espionage, the first diplomatic effort to defuse the tensions over what the United States …

Some thoughts on mobile  — People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”.  This can be misleading.  Ask people who run internet companies and they'll tell you that user behavior on tablets is far more similar to user behavior on desktops/laptops than it is to user behavior on smartphones.

Product > Strategy > Business Model  —  One of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy.  The way I like to think about this is get the product right first, then lock down the strategy of the business, then figure out the business model.

WWDC 2013: Slimmer Retina MacBook Pro w/1080P camera and MacBook Air microphone improvements expected  —  In a report this morning, one of the better Apple analysts, Mingchi Kuo of KGI securities listed his forecast for MacBook Pro and Air updates expected at WWDC starting June 10th.

Mark Shuttleworth gives up dream of Ubuntu toppling Windows  —  When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth began shipping Ubuntu nine years ago, he created “Bug #1.”  Its title was “Microsoft has a majority market share,” and Shuttleworth said “[t]his is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix.”

IE10 blows past IE7 and IE6′s combined market share, Firefox gains too, but Chrome hits 21-month low  —  The browser war continues into the middle of 2013.  May saw the second full month of IE10 availability on Windows 7, as well as the release of Firefox 21 and Chrome 27.

The Aftermath Of Napster: Letting Incumbents Veto Innovation Slows Down Innovation Drastically  —  Last fall, law professor Michael Carrier came out with a really wonderful paper, called Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story.  He interviewed dozens of people involved in the internet world …

Oculus VR co-founder, 33, killed by speeding car  —  Tragedy hits the company that made the Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual-reality display as co-founder Andrew Reisse finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time during a police chase.  —  Andrew Scott Reisse, co-founder of the company …

The Quantitative VC  —  It's no longer sufficient in venture capital for firms to wait for companies, people and trends to come to Sand Hill Road.  Seeing a startup on Demo Day at Y Combinator used to be the pipeline for scouting an early deal.  But these days, YC companies are raising from angels before demo days.

Did Apple conspire to fix ebook prices?  The DOJ takes Cupertino to court on Monday  —  In the antitrust case USA v Apple, high-ranking Apple and Amazon executives are expected to testify  —  Propelled by the public's embrace of the Kindle, Amazon was running away with the burgeoning ebook market by the end of 2009.

‘Virtual’ Currencies Draw State Scrutiny  —  State banking regulators are scrutinizing companies that let people buy and sell virtual currencies such as bitcoin, and some are looking at requiring costly licenses, according to people familiar with the efforts.