John Markoff / New York Times:
Military Supercomputer Sets Record  —  SAN FRANCISCO — An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

Micah / Learn to Duck:
Three Rules For Startup Success  —  There are no hard and fast rules for startup success.  There I said it.  —  Over the past week, I have been spending more and more time at the Techstars “Bunker.”  A garden level office space in a hidden spot in Boulder where ten […]

BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Twitter+Apple!  —  Tomorrow is the much anticipated Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference and there’s going to be some very interesting breaking-news happening on Twitter.  During the event, we are expecting approximately ten times our normal daily traffic so we’ve made some plans to accommodate this dramatic surge.

Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Frustration and Fury: Take It.  It’s Free.  —  TRENT REZNOR’S home is on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, up a maze of climbing one-lane roads that baffle a rental car’s GPS navigation.  It’s perched on a dizzyingly steep slope with a panoramic view of smoggy downtown.  —  At the […]

Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple retail receiving shipments, new signs for Monday  —  We have received word that Apple retail stores have received unidentified shipments, as well as new signage, slated to go up on Monday.  The London Regent Street Apple Store has received a single box that is padlocked, and under orders to […]

Robbie Bach / San Francisco Chronicle:
MICROSOFT ENTERTAINMENT & DEVICES DIVISION PRESIDENT: “We ship lots of 3G phones already on Windows Mobile. …  We will outsell the iPhone.  We will outsell the BlackBerry.”  —  You won’t hear the words “Zune” and “phone” uttered in any proximity to one another by Microsoft’s Robbie Bach any time […]

Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Slide Says It’s Done Releasing New Facebook Apps  —  Slide, the company that makes Facebook’s most popular apps, says it’s done making new ones for the social network.  Keith Rabois, VP of strategy and business development, told us this week that the company wants to concentrate on making … […]

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
iPhone 3G?  —  The hype is in overdrive that there’s a new iPhone coming on Monday.  On the other hand, I’ve been hearing that Forbes/Financial Times/Barrons’ rumors of troubles in getting the new 3G iPhone design done and to production are correct and that there’s no way that it’ll be ready […]

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Thunder live shot, damn we’re good!  —  You all know the Thunder right?  Well, looky looky who got a cookie.  Yeah peoples, live shot of the BlackBerry Thunder right here.  By just looking at the photo, we can see that almost every button on a traditional BlackBerry […]

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Nightmare on Microsoft Street  —  Imagine this:  —  Google starts buying up a series of promising and innovative Web 2.0 companies that Microsoft is either partnered with or clearly is or should be interested in.  —  It starts with Digg, moves onto, say, Spot Runner and others (Meebo …