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May 31, 2014, 7:10 PM

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Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Registry hack enables continued updates for Windows XP — Summary: A single registry setting makes Windows Update think your XP system is Windows XP POSReady, which will receive updates for another five years. — As reported by Wayne Williams at Betanews and confirmed by us …

More: PC World, PC Magazine, Guardian, Geek.com, CNET News, BGR, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Neowin, Electronista, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, Business Insider, AfterDawn.com and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @6

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Goodbye to All That: Today Is Katie Cotton's Last Day at Apple — Today, Katie Cotton, perhaps the most powerful communications exec in tech, is retiring from Apple after 18 years. — As Code/red columnist John Paczkowski noted in reporting the departure earlier this month …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore and Fortune

Tweets: @reneritchie and @nxthompson

Arikia Millikan / Medium:

One of Medium's first paid Collection Editors leaves the platform after one year, citing wage disparity, rocky product changes, poor analytics, more — LadyBits' First and Last Year on Medium — So long, folks. It's been real. — In May of 2013, I signed on as a Collection Editor with Medium to launch LadyBits on Medium.

Tweets: @totallyslutsky, @arikia, @alexhern, @mathewi, @margit, @sarahkendzior, @fmanjoo and @caseynewton

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

WWDC 2014 Roundup: Enhanced iOS 8, redesigned OS X 10.10, new hardware (plus fresh details) — Despite Apple CEO Tim Cook teasing that Apple would introduce new products “across 2014,” so far this year the company has simply released a cheaper version of the iPhone 5c in select markets …

More: VentureBeat, Gigaom, Wired, Neowin, BGR, MacDailyNews, Tech2, IGN, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Engadget, PC Magazine, MacRumors, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, AppleInsider, CNET News, Gizmodo, Marketing Land and Quartz

Tweets: @bzamayo and @hunter

Thanks:@markgurman. See also Mediagazer

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple's WWDC banners show iOS 8, next OS X are coming — Apple's 25th annual developers conference kicks off next week, and as usual, the company's spent the past week putting up large, colorful banners all over the Moscone West building in San Francisco. That includes large Apple logos …

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested in Sweden — Former Pirate Bay spokesman and co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested today in a rural area near Malmö, Sweden. — Sunde was wanted by Interpol for more than two years, ever since the sentence for his role in the Pirate Bay website was made final.

More: The Verge, Expressen, Reuters, AfterDawn.com and revolution-news.com. Tweets: @mlowdi

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

WhatsApp emerges as big share driver for publishers — Publishers tend to focus their social media strategies around the twin titans of Facebook and Twitter. But perhaps they are ignoring WhatsApp at their own peril. — FTW, USA Today's viral sports site, offers a good case study for the platform's potential for publishers.

More: Marketing Land. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

Intel TV creator Erik Huggers leaves Verizon five months after acquisition — Exclusive: Intel TV creator leaves Verizon months after deal — (Reuters) - Erik Huggers is leaving Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) just five months after joining the company via the acquisition of the Intel Corp …

More: Engadget, Wall Street Journal and Techie News

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Powered by Pano, focused on gaming: Google to announce Android TV at Google I/O in June — Google is about to open up another front in the war for your living room: The company is set to announce the launch of Android TV at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco in June …

More: PC Magazine, Redmond Pie, Ausdroid, Neowin, AndroidGuys, AfterDawn.com, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, The Next Web, Droid Life, Phandroid, SlashGear, Business Insider, 9to5Google, TechHive, BGR and TechCrunch. Tweets: @jank0

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Luca Maestri officially succeeds Peter Oppenheimer as Apple's CFO and Senior VP — In an SEC filing today, Apple announced that Luca Maestri has officially transitioned into the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President role. His first official day on the job was yesterday, May 29th.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, MacNN, App Advice and AppleInsider. Tweets: @markgurman

Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:

One in seven US consumers notified of personal data breach in 2013, 62% did nothing — Report: One in seven U.S. consumers notified of personal data breaches in 2013 — U.S. consumers are increasingly victims of data breaches in which their personal data is stolen …

More: Consumer Reports Online, Marketing Pilgrim, TechSpot and Engadget

Tom Brewster / Guardian:

US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers — Security researchers say they have been threatened with indictment for their work investigating internet vulnerabilities — Some of the world's best-known security researchers claim to have been threatened with indictment …

Tweets: @_defcon_. Thanks:@srikardr

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