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11:50 AM ET, July 3, 2008

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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom  —  Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Judge Protects YouTube's Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves  —  The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom.  If the data is actually released …
Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users  —  Yesterday, in the Viacom v. Google litigation, the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to produce to Viacom (over Google's objections): … The court's order grants Viacom's request and erroneously ignores …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
WTF!  US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube  —  You have no privacy on YouTube.  So effectively declared a US judge yesterday.  And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now.
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
YouTube privacy at risk in Google-Viacom ruling  —  Google scored a legal victory in keeping its search source code secret from Viacom, but YouTube users were not so fortunate with their privacy.  —  A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the search giant doesn't have to turn over the code to Viacom …
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Viacom-YouTube Case: Google Doesn't Have To Reveal Innermost Secrets
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Adam Connors / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Talk for the iPhone  —  We've just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers.  In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you're on the move, too!
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google Talk comes to the iPhone.  Death of the text message approaching?  —  Google has unveiled a web-based version of its Google Talk instant messaging client specifically built for the iPhone.  Quite simply: It's amazing — but it has limitations.  —  Just as with Google's other apps built …
Google Talkabout:
Chat on your iPhone  —  Attention iPhone owners!  You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go.  Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone's browser, so you don't need to download or install anything.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
NVIDIA says “significant quantities” of laptop GPUs are defective, stock tumbles  —  If you're the type to watch the late stock tickers, you might have noticed that NVIDIA's stock just took a pretty big hit, down 24 percent to $13.56 — that's because the company just informed investors that …
Discussion: TG Daily, Gizmodo and MacMegasite
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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Yahoo! Property Breakdown and Sum of the Parts  —  Rumors are circulating about another attempt by Microsoft to acquire part of Yahoo!.  The latest rumors suggest that Microsoft will try to buy Yahoo! Search with a media company (i.e. Time Warner or News Corp) absorbing the rest of the business.
Discussion: WebProNews
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Might Offer Carl Icahn Two Seats-But, Uh-Oh, He Wants Four  —  Yahoo leadership, trying to stave off a major clash at its annual meeting on Aug. 1 with activist investor Carl Icahn (pictured here), is contemplating offering him two board seats to assuage him, said several sources close to the situation.
Discussion: Valleywag
Jim Reed / BBC:
Virgin defends file-sharing campaign  —  Virgin Media has told Newsbeat there is “absolutely no possibility” of taking legal action or banning internet users as part of a campaign against illegal file-sharing on its broadband network.  —  The firm has sent 800 letters to customers …
Discussion: Slyck and The Register
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Virgin Media: ‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers
Discussion: Digg
BBC:
Warning letters to ‘file-sharers’
Discussion: p2pnet, BBC NEWS and ringtonia.com
Elizabeth Montalbano / LinuxWorld.com:
Mozilla's Firefox 3 sets geeky world record  —  It's official: Mozilla has set possibly the geekiest world record ever with the release of Firefox 3.  —  The open-source company said Wednesday that the browser's 8,002,530 downloads in its first 24 hours of release set a Guinness World Record …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
State of U.S. Broadband: Demand Hits Speed Bumps  —  A new report from Pew Internet shows that broadband growth in the U.S. has slowed down to a crawl, a sign that U.S. broadband carriers would have to work hard to find ways to grow their overall businesses.
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers  —  Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors …
Discussion: Dancho Danchev's Blog
 
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's Facebook stake influenced ConnectU case
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Times of India:
Sony to launch fourth version of PS-2 by Diwali
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John Leyden / The Register:
Scareware runs amok on PlayStation site
Bill Ray / The Register:
America wakes up to the surveillance society
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
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InfoWorld:
Visto patent wins backing ahead of RIM trial
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 Earlier Items: 
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Sony pulls problematic PS3 software update after 1 hour
Discussion: BBC NEWS
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Street View Live in France
Discussion: Screenwerk and WebProNews
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
I've Been Gnipped  —  Earlier this year we made a seed investment …
Discussion: The Real McCrea
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Adobe's PDF format now an ISO standard
Discussion: The Register and Digg
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Bill Gates battles Kermit the Frog in the name of open source
Discussion: The Open Road
Sydney Morning Herald:
Use Microsoft to win Apple products
Calley Nye / TechCrunch:
Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. …
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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