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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference — Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T — After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday. The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's quarter of lowered expectations: Fiscal Q3 2013 — Wall Street is looking for Apple to report zero revenue growth. — FORTUNE — On April 24, the day after Apple (AAPL) reported its earnings for fiscal Q2, Cowan and Company's Matthew Hoffman published a revised forecast for the following quarter.

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing ‘Moto X’ Phone — All Four Major US Wireless Carriers Expected to Sell Device This Fall — As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging …

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs.

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Richard Chirgwin / The Register:

HP admits to backdoors in storage products — Usernames and passwords in the wild, factory resets possible — Hewlett-Packard has agreed that there is an undocumented administrative account in its StoreVirtual products, and is promising a patch by 17 July.

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Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:

Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests — SUNNYVALE — In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate …

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Adam Tanner / Forbes:

Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online — The Berkeley Marina, a stretch of park and an enclosed yacht harbor, juts into the San Francisco Bay. Visitors regularly drive there to admire the dramatic view that includes Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Dara Kerr / CNET:

LG unveils world's thinnest HD LCD smartphone panel — Measuring 5.2 inches long and only 2.2 mm thick, new display panels being developed by LG could prompt the move toward slimmer and lighter mobile devices. — LG Display is working on what it says is the world's slimmest smartphone panel.

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Jo Best / ZDNet:

European ISPs hit with antitrust raids — Summary: The European Commission's antitrust watchdogs have raided the offices of a number of European “internet connectivity providers”. — Jo Best — The European Commission has carried out a series of raids on ISPs over possible antitrust breaches.

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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline — Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period …

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