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1:55 PM 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.
Discussion: Traffick
BBC:   Google must divulge YouTube log
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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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.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Google Talk comes to the iPhone, iPod Touch
Discussion: SlashPhone and The Apple Blog
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.
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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.
Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Hitwise Proves The Value Of Yahoo's Non-Search Parts
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Report: Some dial-up users wish to stay that way
Discussion: Associated Press
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, p2pnet, TorrentFreak and The Register
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool  —  Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD's ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's Facebook stake influenced ConnectU case  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—What is Facebook really worth?  —  One of the burning questions in the technology business during the past year also played a major role in the dispute between social networks ConnectU and Facebook, according to documents obtained by CNET News.com.
Discussion: Bits and Valleywag
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: CircleID and Dancho Danchev's Blog
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Sony pulls problematic PS3 software update after 1 hour  —  Sony has been forced to pull the 2.40 version of the PlayStation 3 from download servers because of complaints that the new update was causing problems for the owners of the console.  —  According to Sony PR the 2.40 software update …
Discussion: BBC NEWS and Gearlog
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Kimberly Chow / E-Commerce Times:
European Musicians: Don't Mess With Royalty System … Controlling Their Work  —  ECSA said that if major online services can negotiate lower, region-wide fees, artists could get less for their songs despite seeing them distributed more widely.  —  “On a fundamental scale …
Discussion: Electronista
Levi Beckerson / DailyTech:
Scientists Getting Closer to Cloaking Technologies  —  Want to hide your space cruiser from sight?  We're getting there.  —  One of the most enticing tenants of sci-fi has always been invisibility.  Whether it's a Klingon Bird of Prey or a Panther Modern's mimetic polycarbon …
 
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James Sherwood / The Register:
Pay-by-phone commerce coming closer
Discussion: Mobile Computer
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Where To Find Women Online: Watching ABC.com
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook-advertised boozefest spurs liquor ban
Discussion: PSFK
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Survey contradicts earlier claim of no Japanese iPhone love
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OpenMoko FreeRunner Linux phone to launch on July 4
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Australia shows US how a real broadband strategy works
Discussion: dbcde.gov.au
Laura Mgrdichian / PhysOrg.com:
New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage
Times of India:
Sony to launch fourth version of PS-2 by Diwali
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Lightning Review: Linksys WRT610N Dual N-Band Wireless Router
Discussion: Electronista
Michal Zalewski / Google Online Security Blog:
Meet ratproxy, our passive web security assessment tool
Discussion: InfoWorld and The Open Road
John Leyden / The Register:
Scareware runs amok on PlayStation site
Bill Ray / The Register:
America wakes up to the surveillance society
Discussion: Ars Technica and eWeek
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Small Business Success Stories: What We've Learned So Far
Discussion: Screenwerk
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 …
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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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