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9:30 PM ET, May 30, 2009

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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Video: Sony's PSP Go leaks out before E3, is obviously a go  —  Look up there, folks.  That's the future of Sony's hopes and dreams in the handheld gaming sector.  With just hours to go before the company's official E3 2009 press event, it looks like the pieces are all coming together.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension  —  A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
Andrew Mager / The Web Life:
Live: Wordcamp 2009  —  The following is a live blog.  Beware of spelling errors, and lots of photos.  Enjoy.  —  Wordcamp is a conference about blogging and developing the future of the best blogging platform.  Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg is celebrating the 6th anniversary of the open source blogging software.
Discussion: Ben Werdmuller
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Aaron Brazell / Technosailor.com:
WordPress and WordPress MU to Merge  —  This is the first year I did not attend WordCamp San Francisco, the annual event that is the largest of the WordCamp gathering.  It seems like I'm missing the announcement of some big news.  —  Matt Mullenweg announced during his State of the Word speech …
New York Times:
Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States  —  MELBOURNE, Fla. — The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.  —  The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Opening Up Closed Doors: What News Execs Asked Brill  —  Some two dozen newspaper industry execs gathered quietly (they thought) in suburban Chicago Thursday to continue a conversation about industry solutions that started last month.  In between the two, Steve Brill, Leo Hindery …
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Gordon Borrell / Borrell Associates:   Are we NUTS?  —  We've had lots of questions about our numbers …
Terry / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
The NAA's secret meeting
Discussion: The Biz Blog
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Bing vs. Blekko: A Difference in Attitude  —  A couple of weeks ago I saw Blekko, the as yet unlaunced search startup from Rich Skrenta (formerly of Topix and other significant places).  Yesterday TechCrunch made an early positive assessment of the site after taking a look:  —  “Stunningly cool.”
Julie Weed / New York Times:
Finding New Employees, via Social Networks  —  ALAN KENNEDY, 54, had never used social networking sites until he was laid off from his job as an engineer last November.  Then he did what many job seekers are now advised to do: he set up profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Twitter Status:
“Best video” not so great — we're working on it.  —  No matter how good that “best video” looks, don't go to any juste.ru domains.  We're aware of the situation and are working on it.
Marianne Schultz / EverythingiCafe:
Purported 3rd-generation iPhone in the wild in Hong Kong  —  UMPCfever.com posted a story early this morning showing purported pictures of the next-generation iPhone.  As is usually the case with spy shots, the pictures are pretty fuzzy, showing mostly the screen without revealing the body of the phone …
Discussion: The iPhone Blog and Engadget Mobile, Thanks:meinck
Jeff Bakalar / Crave: The gadget blog:
Our E3 2009 Predictions  —  With the new and supposedly improved Electronic Entertainment Expo just around the corner (here are some of last year's highlights), we decided to run down some quick predictions for what the overarching themes of the show will be.  —  Scott Stein:
Discussion: Technologizer
Bgurley / abovethecrowd.com:
Will Apple Make An Actual Television?  Makes Sense To Me  —  There is a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley circles that Apple may be working on a actual physical television (as opposed to the set-top box product known as AppleTV).  There have also been assertions by business analysts that such a product is coming.
Thanks:atul
Dan Goodin / The Register:
PC-pwning infection hits 30,000 legit websites  —  And counting  —  Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial  —  A nasty infection that attempts to install a potent malware cocktail on the machines of end users has spread to about 30,000 websites run by businesses …
Discussion: securitylabs.websense.com, Thanks:blogfisher
 
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in three days
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Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain
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