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12:25 AM ET, August 26, 2007

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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore (updated)  —  Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication.  Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate …
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Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Validation Issue Fix  —  We've been receiving reports on our forum and through customer service starting last night that Windows Vista validations have been failing on genuine systems.  It looks now as though the issue has been resolved and validations are being processed successfully.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates  —  19-hour outage over, but users must revalidate to get back disabled features, says Redmond  —  Microsoft Corp. has blamed an unspecified server problem for a 19-hour stretch during which paying users of Windows XP …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Mark Cuban says "The Internet is dead and boring" What he really meant was...  Mark Cuban says "The Internet is dead and boring".  It is an attention grabbing headline but what he really means is that Internet bandwidth is not growing fast enough to support new innovative applications.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Internet is Dead and Boring  —  A lot of people are all up and upset about my comments that the Internet is dead and boring.  Well guess what, it is.  Every new technological, mechanical or intellectual breakthrough has its day, days, months and years.  But they don't rule forever.
Discussion: WinExtra and JasonKolb.com
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
A First-Hand Look at a Chinese Second Life, HiPiHi  —  Zhong Guan Village, Beijing - Last year, a mysterious YouTube video purported to demo a Chinese Second Life called HiPiHi (pronounced "high-pee-high") stormed the virtual world blogosphere.  But with little English language commentary to go on …
Discussion: Raph's Website and Computerworld
Aaron Rutkoff / Wall Street Journal:
With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke  —  Eric Nakagawa was between jobs last January when he came across a funny picture while surfing the Web: a high-strung cat with an open maw making a garbled request for a cheeseburger.  —  Mr. Nakagawa couldn't really say why he found the picture so funny.
Discussion: Laughing Squid
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Anime Distributor Has No Legal Right to Threaten BitTorrent Users  —  Last week we reported on the Singapore-based anime distributor Odex Pt. Ltd and their campaign to track, find and threaten thousands of BitTorrent users which they claim infringe their copyrights.  The demand - 'Pay us $3,500 - or else'.
Anything But iPod:
SanDisk Announces the Sansa Clip  —  SanDisk has answered back to the Creative's Zen Stone with the Sansa Clip.  Around the same size as a matchbook, the player features an OLED screen (the same one found on the Express) and flexes 15 hours of battery life.
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Picture Exclusive: Palm Centro Leaked Official Shot  —  The Palm Centro has been courting much attention lately thanks to a host of blurry pictures and news of its diminutive stature.  Today we have the first (leaked) press photo shot of the device and it does not look half bad.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Saturday Morning: I'm Watching Tubecast  —  Good find over at Go2Web2 - Tubecast.tv is a new Internet video startup that, like others, is building a user interface layer on top of the online video services like YouTube, Veoh, etc.  —  For the most part the site has grabbed a lot of content …
Discussion: Go2web2
NEWS.com.au:
Student cracks $84m porn filter  —  A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes.  —  Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday.  —  Tom, a year 10 student …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Gizmodo
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Janus Friis on Joost: adult content, charging and not paying ISPs over bandwidth  —  Joost co-founder Janus Friis has outlined future possibilities for the web TV service including charging users, introducing adult content and never going down the "slippery slope" of splitting ad revenue with ISPs.
Discussion: dslreports.com and Beet.TV
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Attack Of The Fake Bloggers  —  Whilst Fake Steve Jobs has gained the most attention in the fake personal blog scene, a number of other fake blogs have been launched this year.  Here's a quick run down of a few that might be worthy of adding to your feed reader...or maybe not.  —  The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
 
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Chinese Seek to Buy a U.S. Maker of Disk Drives
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Sean Cooper / Engadget:
Second iPhone software unlock promised tomorrow
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
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Darla Mack:
Special Edition Nokia N73 to Celebrate Ramadan
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Researchers Crack KeeLoq Code for Car Keys
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
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Consumer Innovations to Inform Web Site for Spies
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Check This Guy Out  —  Bill Snitzer, one of the tech guys …
Discussion: Mark Evans and flashpoint
Google / orkut Blog:
Redesign Preview: True Blue Simplicity
Discussion: TechCrunch and Googling Google
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
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