Why do Nigerian scammers say they’re from Nigeria? A Microsoft (MSFT) researcher investigates. [Hacker News]
Now you can read through a user’s Twitter stream without all those annoying @ replies to randos clogging it up. [Twitter Blog]
Oops. Microsoft forgot to tell its PC partners about that little thing called the Surface tablet. [Reuters]
Facebook (META)’s head of mobile told the audience at Le Web that the company is trying to copy Path. Cool story, bro. [TechCrunch]
The Daily Dot rounds up some of the more embarrassing moments in Reddit (RDDT)’s history. [Daily Dot]
LinkedIn (LNKD) is being sued for that unfortunate password hacking scandal. [VentureBeat]