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1.EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal (internetdefenseleague.org)
429 points by mtgx on July 19, 2012 | 140 comments
2.Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life (wmpoweruser.com)
326 points by yread on July 19, 2012 | 203 comments
3.Living with HTTPS (imperialviolet.org)
326 points by daniel02216 on July 19, 2012 | 126 comments
4.15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test (makezine.com)
285 points by swombat on July 19, 2012 | 84 comments
5.Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second (thekidshouldseethis.com)
274 points by yk on July 19, 2012 | 29 comments
6.Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever (msn.com)
272 points by sbashyal on July 19, 2012 | 116 comments
7.Tell, don't ask (thoughtbot.com)
216 points by djacobs on July 19, 2012 | 86 comments
8.Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic (corkami.com)
209 points by philthom on July 19, 2012 | 34 comments
9.Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory (extremetech.com)
208 points by mrsebastian on July 19, 2012 | 84 comments
10.New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage (aws.typepad.com)
196 points by jeffbarr on July 19, 2012 | 102 comments
11.Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks (blog.mozilla.org)
177 points by AndrewDucker on July 19, 2012 | 121 comments
12.Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec' (networkworld.com)
171 points by boopsie on July 19, 2012 | 123 comments
13.Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide (dailyjs.com)
160 points by jashkenas on July 19, 2012 | 37 comments
14.Inconsolata (levien.com)
156 points by Cieplak on July 19, 2012 | 60 comments
15.Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 (buildnewgames.com)
150 points by EtienneK on July 19, 2012 | 60 comments
16.How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us? (eatingacademy.com)
143 points by fhoxh on July 19, 2012 | 181 comments
17. Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser (canonical.com)
138 points by sciurus on July 19, 2012 | 77 comments

So Microsoft is peeking into private folders, and judging the contents based on political and religious values not inscribed in any law? And completely terminates all Microsoft service to anyone found wanting to obey by these fundamentalist directives?

The warning should not be "watch what you store on SkyDrive", the warning should be "stay the hell away from Microsoft".

19.Heroku Releases Free PostgreSQL App for OSX (techcrunch.com)
133 points by craigkerstiens on July 19, 2012 | 56 comments
20.Epicyclic Gearing (ocks.org)
131 points by llambda on July 19, 2012 | 20 comments
21.Shell social media oil spill a 'coordinated online assassination' (theage.com.au)
119 points by nreece on July 19, 2012 | 111 comments
22.Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History (cbs19.tv)
117 points by z92 on July 19, 2012 | 86 comments
23.Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM (hanselman.com)
112 points by jmcqk6 on July 19, 2012 | 81 comments
24.Mozilla Wants Hundreds Of Thousands Of Firefox OS Developers (techweekeurope.co.uk)
107 points by maudlinmau5 on July 19, 2012 | 53 comments
25.The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to (venturebeat.com)
100 points by vtry on July 19, 2012 | 109 comments
26.Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. (techcrunch.com)
85 points by kunle on July 19, 2012 | 120 comments
27.Apple granted broad mobile patent (macworld.co.uk)
85 points by ianox on July 19, 2012 | 99 comments
28.Shoehorning startups into the VC model (cdixon.org)
82 points by darrelsumi on July 19, 2012 | 13 comments
29.Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS (netflix.com)
79 points by riffraff on July 19, 2012 | 13 comments
30.Google Chrome Web Lab is now live in beta. (chromeweblab.com)
75 points by Brajeshwar on July 19, 2012 | 14 comments

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