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1:30 AM ET, May 29, 2011

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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Samsung's lawyers demand to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3  —  We always knew the Apple / Samsung lawsuit would produce some major fireworks, and Samsung just lit off a corker: the company filed a motion Friday night asking Apple to turn over the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 as part of the discovery process.
Jim Wolf / Reuters:
Lockheed says thwarted “tenacious” cyber attack  —  (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp, the U.S. government's top information technology provider, said on Saturday that it detected and thwarted “a significant and tenacious attack” on its information systems network one week ago.
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New York Times:
SecurID Breach Suggested in Hacking Attempt at Lockheed  —  Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest military contractor, has battled disruptions in its computer networks this week that might be tied to a hacking attack on a vendor that supplies coded security tokens to millions of users, security officials said on Friday.
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Dept. of Defense and Homeland Security confirm Lockheed Martin hacker breach
Discussion: Reuters and Reuters
Kathy E. Gill / WiredPen:
Twitter, Gag Orders and The British Press  —  Also Known As : Don't Believe Link-Bait Headlines (Read The Small Print) : Update 4  —  The London Telegraph has a screaming headline: … The problem is this: nothing in the story supports the assertion.  No where — NO WHERE — do the …
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
NYT Reporter Shows the Power of Twitter as Journalism  —  Updated: Anyone who has been following the protests and revolutions in the Middle East for the past few months has probably heard of Andy Carvin, the NPR editor who has been using Twitter to curate news from the region.
Bjoern L. Herrmann / Startup Genome:
Discover The Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups In The Startup Genome Report  —  Today we are releasing the first Startup Genome Report with in-depth analysis on what makes internet startups successful based on data from over 650 startups.  Here is a small window into the report with 14 indicators of success.
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's New Desktop Software Team Could Build Apps to Report Media Consumption  —  Facebook is accepting applications from engineers to join a new desktop software team at its Seattle office.  The responsibilities of the “Software Engineer, Desktop Software” position we noticed …
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Alaska Airlines ditches paper flight manuals for iPads  —  The iPad has already gotten the go-ahead from the FAA as a replacement for paper flight charts and maps, and now Alaska Airlines has become the first major US airline to hop on board the paperless bandwagon.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Attention, shoppers: Men outspend women 9 to 1 on mobile virtual goods  —  Given the stereotype of how much women love shopping, you'd expect them to be the biggest spenders online.  And women are indeed fueling purchases at sites such as Gilt Groupe.  But when it comes to purchases …
Luke Kelly-Clyne / Newser:
Iran Plans to Unplug Internet, Create Its Own  —  Iran is waging war on open Internet.  Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran's telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet.
Pixable Blog:
People are changing their Facebook profile photo more often every year  —  Today we took a closer look at the most important part of your Facebook profile, yes that's right, the profile photo.  Photofeed's smart algorithm sorts through an immense amount of data every while ranking photos …
Discussion: The Next Web, TechCrunch and WebProNews
Shaimaa Fayed / Reuters:
Egypt's Mubarak fined for communications cut  —  (Reuters) - An Egyptian administrative court fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds ($91 million) on Saturday for cutting mobile and Internet services during protests in January.
Discussion: BBC, Deutsche Welle, Bloomberg and CNN
 
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
DNS filtering: absolutely the wrong way to defend copyrights
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Tim Pawlenty Tests Facebook Sponsored Stories
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Wall Street Journal:
RIM Hopes Cars Drive PlayBook Sales
Discussion: Digital Trends
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
Hands-on with Amazon's Mac software store
Discussion: MacStories and Inquirer
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