• Life After Anonymous – Interview with a Former Hacker (Jason Lackey/Cisco Blog)

    Jason Lackey / Cisco Blog:
    Life After Anonymous – Interview with a Former Hacker  —  The hacker group Anonymous has been in the news recently for a variety of reasons, including WikiLeaks, the HBGary breach, and other things.  One recent item was a relatively high-profile defection from the organization …

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    OpenDNS and Google team to speed up the web (Stacey Higginbotham/GigaOM)

    Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
    OpenDNS and Google team to speed up the web  —  A few million Americans may find their YouTube requests get delivered faster on Tuesday as Google, OpenDNS, and several content delivery networks announce the Global Internet Speed Up effort.  —  As the web scales and bandwidth demands rise …

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    Improvements in Windows Explorer (Alex Simons/MSDN Blogs)

    Alex Simons / MSDN Blogs:
    Improvements in Windows Explorer … It’s exciting to have this opportunity to share the improvements we’re making to the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer.  Explorer is one of the most venerable parts of Windows with a heritage you can trace back to the “MS-DOS Executive” in Windows 1.0!

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    Improvements in Windows Explorer (Steven Sinofsky/MSDN Blogs)

    Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
    Improvements in Windows Explorer … It’s exciting to have this opportunity to share the improvements we’re making to the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer.  Explorer is one of the most venerable parts of Windows with a heritage you can trace back to the “MS-DOS Executive” in Windows 1.0!

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    Improvements in Windows Explorer (Steven Sinofsky/MSDN Blogs)

    Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
    Improvements in Windows Explorer … It’s exciting to have this opportunity to share the improvements we’re making to the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer.  Explorer is one of the most venerable parts of Windows with a heritage you can trace back to the “MS-DOS Executive” in Windows 1.0!

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    PROTECT IP threatens the future of DNS security (AfterDawn.com)

    AfterDawn.com:
    PROTECT IP threatens the future of DNS security  —  PROTECT IP is the name of a bill which is working its way through the US Senate with a version also expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives next month.  It would require the Attorney General’s office to compile of list …

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    WikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands more cables (Mark Hosenball/Reuters)

    Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
    WikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands more cables  —  (Reuters) – The WikiLeaks organization said on Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified.  —  “We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables …

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    Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda Resigns From Slashdot (CmdrTaco/Slashdot)

    CmdrTaco / Slashdot:
    Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda Resigns From Slashdot  —  from the steve-got-front-cutsies dept.  —  After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it’s finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot.  I created this place with my best friends in a run down house while still in college.

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    How Google+ will succeed and why you’ll use it whether you want to or not. (Tom Anderson/The Next Web)

    Tom Anderson / The Next Web:
    How Google+ will succeed and why you’ll use it whether you want to or not.  —  Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Tom Anderson, the founder & former President of MySpace.  Follow him on Google, Twitter, and Facebook.  —  There’s been more than a few “Google+ is doomed” articles as of late.

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    Google puts new g.co URL shortener to work (Jon Norris/RCR Unplugged)

    Jon Norris / RCR Unplugged:
    Google puts new g.co URL shortener to work  —  A little while ago Google announced they had purchased the g.co domain name, and were planning to use it exclusively for linking to Google-owned sites.  Their existing URL shortening service, goo.gl, was to remain for user-generated links to any URL they pleased.

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