http://techcrunch.com – In an effort to improve the quality of K-12 public education, schools across the country have begun to adopt the Common Core State Standards, which are designed to align the diversity of state curricula under one consistent, standardized guidebook of what students are expected to learn — and teachers are expected to teach. (IT news)

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hey everyody, I'm posting here to share my problem on waking up the computer from suspend. It's been few days now that i can't wake up from Suspend anymore, and that suddenly, without changing anything in the settings. I've just made a couple of updates through the Software Center but that's it, I don't think it has a relation though. I'm on a Zareason Ultralap 430. (Hardware)

http://techcrunch.com – Today, Turntable.fm’s latest mobile venture is launching out of beta as a free iOS app to the public. Music lovers, meet Piki.fm. Piki.fm is the asyncrhonous counterpart to Turntable.fm’s real-time social music experience. (IT news)

http://crunchbang.org – Installing from Windows using NFS is really a pain.if you read herehttp://www.vercot.com/~serva/an/NonWindowsPXE3.htmland see how Serva does for booting i.e Debian Live you can see there's an "additional" initrd.gz loaded.That file contains the missing cifs support files extracted from the squashfs file, then when the kernel boots up is able to retrieve the live file (squashfs) &quo (HowTos)

http://techcrunch.com – The Bitcoin correction we wrote about yesterday was not caused by a DDOS attack on one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.Gox, but rather by a massive spike in interest in the crypto currency, according to Mt.Gox. During trading yesterday the value of Bitcoin plummet by 60%, dropping from a high of $265 to around $150 (at the time of writing it has climbed back up slightly, to around $180). (IT news)