Former “voice of the boy king” – aka ghostwriter to Mark Zuckerberg – Katherine Losse says she was stunned when they handed over a password that could get her into any account, all sans background check to ascertain whether or not she was a “crazed stalker”. 
Naked Security – Sophos
Microsoft may have told app developers “Don’t call it Metro,” but the latest version of Mozilla’s browser for Windows 8 is called the “Firefox Metro Preview.” The name is fitting in all senses.
It’s fitting because Mozilla has adopted the used-to-be-called-Metro design style with an attractive overhaul of the browser’s user interface. This is something Google did not do with Chrome. While there is a version of Chrome for Metro, it looks almost exactly like the desktop version, for better or worse.
The name “Firefox Metro Preview” is also fitting because “preview,” if anything, is a polite word for this early state of the application. While both Microsoft and Google have Metro-style browsers in functional shape, Mozilla’s current schedule will keep the Metro version of its browser in beta for some time after the Windows 8 release on Oct. 26.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Early Adopters Peeved as Others Race to Buy the TouchPad at Bargain Prices — HP has slashed prices to clear hundreds of thousands of orphaned TouchPads from store shelves, following this week’s announcement that it would no longer make devices based on WebOS.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Steve Jobs Gets His Head Shaved And Other Youthful Stories [Early Playboy Interview] — I’ve read a lot of Steve Jobs interviews but until now I’d not seen this 1985 interview from Playboy. — It catches Steve Jobs at age 29, one year after the Macintosh was launched.
