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12:50 PM ET, September 2, 2007

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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Google and the wires torpedo newspapers  —  A fascinating announcement from Google about an arrangement with four of the world's major wire services that will see their content featured more prominently on Google News.  As far as I can tell, this deal has one major loser: namely …
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Reuters:
Google Shift on Handling of News  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 (Reuters) — Google is playing host to articles from four news agencies, including The Associated Press, the company said Friday, setting the stage for it to generate advertising revenue from Google News.
Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:
Introducing the Google Phone  —  The Internet is buzzing about it, but only a privileged few know what it looks like, what it will do, or when it will hit the streets  —  Cambridge has a chocolate factory, and a Willy Wonka.  The chocolate factory is Google's local research lab …
Discussion: dslreports.com
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers  —  The network of compromised Microsoft Windows computers under the thumb of the criminals who control the Storm Worm has grown so huge that it now has more raw distributed computing power than all of the world's top supercomputers, security experts say.
NEWS.com.au:
Art of chatting face to face dying  —  Decrease Increase -  —  Submit comment:  —  THE introduction of e-mail, text messaging and iPods is causing a worldwide epidemic of shyness.  —  Psychologist, Harvard Business School researcher and etiquette columnist Robin Abrahams says societies have become filled with shrinking violets.
Discussion: Engadget and The Raw Feed
Will O'Brien / Hack a Day:
nsa@home (diy shared fpga cracker)  —  [skylark] converted a pair of defective hdtv processing boards into his very own fpga sha-1 hash cracker.  after two months of evening work, he ended up with 15 virtex-ii pro fpgas and 5 spartan-ii fpgas to do his bidding.
Discussion: Light Blue Touchpaper
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Do the Mash (Even if You Don't Know All the Steps)  —  POP music has its mash-ups that combine tunes and vocals from different songs.  YouTube viewers do it, too, mixing together segments from various music videos.  —  Now mash-ups are poised to hit the mainstream, and to spread well beyond music.
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Microsoft Allegedly Bullies and Bribes to Make Office an International Standard  —  Sunday is an important date for Microsoft's future.  —  It's the deadline for votes on whether Microsoft's office document format, Office OpenXML, will be approved as an international standard by the International Standards Organization, or ISO.
Dale Dougherty / O'Reilly Radar:
Journalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken  —  On a day when Alan Mutter told us at Radar about his blog post on the ten-year low for ad sales in print newspapers,  —  I had the thought that most of a newspaper is a waste of print.  Much of it goes unread and all of it is thrown away.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Who Founded Facebook?  A New Claim Emerges  —  Mark Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking Web site estimated to be worth upward of $1 billion.  —  Three Harvard classmates, the founders of ConnectU, have long claimed that Mr. Zuckerberg stole the idea from them …
Marco / Marco's Blog:
Google Earth Flight Simulator  —  Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky.  As fascinating as Google Sky is, that's not the focus of this post.  Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I cannot seem to find any other information about.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Hey, Who's He?  With Gwyneth?  The Google Guy  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The gallery of photos lining a hallway at Google's headquarters here is filled with the faces of luminaries who have visited the company: Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali and Jane Fonda.
Tom Corelis / DailyTech:
Death of a Streamcaster: Web Radio Prepares for the Worst  —  Even after compromises from SoundExchange and the CRB, web radio broadcasters are not optimistic about the future  —  The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board's new rates "would bankrupt us," says Tim Westergren of Pandora …
Discussion: Slashdot
 
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Bloglines vs Google Reader - Who's Really Winning?
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Linda A. Epstein / Tablet PC 2:
A First Look at the Fujitsu Lifebook T2010 Tablet PC
Allison Graff / Calvin College:
Student, prof build budget supercomputer
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
How Long Before You Purge? Apparently Never for the Gap
CNN:
Code to unlock iPhone cracked
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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James Niccolai / InfoWorld:
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