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1:15 AM ET, November 1, 2007

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Intego:
INTEGO SECURITY ALERT - October 31, 2007  —  OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to  —  Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers  —  Description: A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs.
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Shaun Nichols / vnunet:
Phishing trojan targets OS X  —  Security vendor Intego claims to have found a new trojan attack that targets Apple's OS X operating system.  —  The OSX.RSPlug.A trojan allegedly disguises itself as a video codec that would provided access to a pornographic video.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Mac OS malware targets porn surfers  —  There's a new piece of malware out there targeting Mac users that takes advantage of the inclination to watch porn.  —  Intego, a Mac security software company, issued an alert Wednesday warning Mac users of the OSX.RSPlug.A malware, which it describes as a Trojan horse.
Rob Griffiths / Macworld:   Trojan Horse warning: What you need to know
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web  —  My company, Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5 …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A bit about Open Social  —  Standards devised by one tech company whose main purpose is to undermine another tech company, usually don't work.  —  In this case it's Google trying to undermine Facebook.  —  And I don't think it's going to work.  —  What would be exciting and uplifting …
Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence:
OpenSocial - Can it Compete with Facebook?  —  The New York Times reported yesterday that Google, working with an alliance of companies including; Linkedin, Plaxo, Friendster and Hi5 to write standards for social networking applications including Google's Orkut.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Google Phone: The Story So Far, Some Launch Details & What's Next  —  The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on Google's mobile phone efforts and how it is beginning to draw some interest from carriers, especially in the United States.  Sprint (S) and Verizon (VZ) are in talks with Google …
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Google Phone Plan Draws Interest  —  Google Inc. is in advanced talks with two top U.S. cellphone operators, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., about selling handsets tailored to its new mobile-phone operating system, people familiar with the matter said.
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
$200 Everex Green PC Now Available  —  Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores.  —  "It's $200, with no gimmicks or subsidies," Everex spokesman David Liu said.
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Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
At Wal-Mart, Black Friday comes early
Discussion: Gizmodo
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, Look Who's Now The 5th Biggest Company in the US  —  That's right: Google (GOOG).  And trading at a not-preposterous 55-times trailing 12-month earnings, too.  —  Rank Company Market Cap (Bil) Ticker  —  1 Exxon Mobil $505 XOM
Discussion: Bits and Digital Daily
Steve / CO-ED Magazine:
Facebook Music is Coming!  —  As reported earlier this year, Facebook has been rumored to announce an online music service to compete with iTunes and MySpace in the near future.  —  This just in: the "Facebook Music" platform will serve as the social networking giants first step into the music space.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google launches privacy channel on YouTube  —  Google launched a privacy channel on YouTube Wednesday with videos explaining its privacy policies.  The move comes on the eve of a two-day Federal Trade Commission-hosted town hall event on behavioral ad targeting to be held in Washington, D.C.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Sony's Folding@home project gets Guinness record  —  It's a small thing, but Sony got some good news today related to its troubled PlayStation 3 video game console.  In fact, the system helped set a new Guinness World Record.  —  The record was set by Stanford University's Folding@home project …
Discussion: Engadget and Opposable Thumbs
Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:
More than 100,000 iPhone owners break out of jail  —  The release of an easy-to-download method of opening up the iPhone to third-party applications prompted almost 150,000 downloads of the software in three days.  —  Our friends over at iPhone Atlas spoke with Nicholas "Drudge" Penree …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans  —  One of the most disruptive startups in the financial industry is Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace.  Since its launch in February, 2006, Prosper has attracted more than 450,000 members who have loaned $96.4 million to each other.
 
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