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11:30 AM ET, June 4, 2011

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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iTunes Leaks ‘Automatic Download’ Over-the-Air Updates in iOS 5 [Updated]  —  In the days leading to WWDC, Apple's iTunes seems to have leaked a new feature that must be coming in iOS 5.  A MacRumors reader discovered (and we verified) that when asking iTunes to check your app library for updates …
Conor Sen / Minyanville:
Groupon is Effectively Insolvent  —  I'll start by tipping my hat to Andrew Mason.  He caught social mood just right, creating a coupon/local/flashmob hybrid business model at the perfect time, and has created the fastest-growing company on a revenue basis in American history.
Discussion: eWeek, dan shipper and knewton.com
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David Sinsky / Yipit Blog:
Groupon S-1 Reveals Business Model Deteriorating in Oldest Markets  —  While no one has ever doubted Groupon's impressive topline growth - the question has always been around the defensibility of a business that has so few barriers to entry.  —  In its long awaited S-1, it's clear that Groupon has impressive topline growth.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
That Queasy Feeling You Get Reading The Groupon S-1 Doesn't Come From One Thing But From Everything  —  There are many things that feel a bit “off” in Groupon's IPO filing.  —  But the biggest takeaway from the filing, as our boss Nicholas Carlson put it in our SAIcast yesterday …
Discussion: The Business Insider
pastebin.com:
LulzSec versus FBI Affiliates + Whitehats  —  Dear Internets, It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking.  They now treat hacking as an act of war.
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Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Sony Pictures Confirms LulzSec Hack as Group Targets FBI  —  Sony Pictures on Friday confirmed that its Web sites were hacked by a group that identifies itself as LulzSec.  —  LulzSec, meanwhile, said tonight that it also hacked into FBI-affiliated Web sites.
Gizmodo:
Find Out if Your Sony Pictures Subscriber Information Was Leaked Right Here  —  Sony's been hacked again, with over a million SonyPictures.com accounts lifted, containing vital personal information like home addresses.  Is yours included?  We've got an exclusive, easy database to check.
David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
How top U.S. government officials got hacked
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Thanks:steverubel
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Exclusive: Microsoft Has Acquisition Deal With Nvidia  —  Redmond's purchase option automatically kicks in if a third-party offers $3.4 billion or more for tablet chipmaker's shares.  —  Microsoft and Nvidia have an agreement in place that spells out terms relating to a possible acquisition …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Kno Textbook App Hits The iPad  —  Last night, Kno quietly released its first digital textbook app for the iPad.  It includes its own store of “over 700,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list” price.  And the app is a full textbook reader.  —  Kno, whose CEO Osman Rashid previously founded …
Discussion: App Advice
Naked Security / Sophos:
Sony Europe hacked by Lebanese hacker... Again  —  By my count this is unlucky hack number 13 for Sony.  A Lebanese hacker known as Idahc dumped another user database at Sony Europe containing approximately 120 usernames, passwords (plain text), mobile phone numbers, work emails and website addresses.
Discussion: AllThingsD, Gadgets DNA and ArabCrunch
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Hires The Guy Who Hacked Together A Better iOS Notifications System  —  Back in February, I wrote that MobileNotifier (a replacement notifications system for jailbroken iOS devices) would be the one thing that would make anyone want to jailbreak — and I stand by it.
Ilya Grigorik / PostRank Blog:
PostRank has been acquired by Google!  —  From the seed of an idea in late 2006, to the launch of PostRank in mid 2007, and an incredible four years of continuous learning, iteration, and developing and launching new products—what an amazing experience it has been.  And yet, the best is still yet to come.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Twitter.com Adds Content From Amazon, Foursquare, Meetup & More  —  Amazon, AOL Video, Gowalla, Foursquare, Meetup and Plancast are the newest social tools to be integrated with Twitter.com, allowing users to access more multimedia content without leaving the site.
Discussion: Foursquare Blog
Josh Phillips / The Windows Blog:
A tour of the new Music +Video Hub  —  From the beginning, the chief design principle for the Music+Videos Hub in Windows Phone was simple: make it easy to discover and consume the content you love.  —  In Mango, it only gets better.  —  The next release of Windows Phone introduces on-phone podcasts …
Matthew Fraser / This Much I Know:
YOU DON'T SAY: WORDS “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” ARE BANNED FROM FRENCH AIRWAVES  —  The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations.  —  Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a society universally admired …
 
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Mac RSS champ NetNewsWire sold to Black Pixel, developer moving on
David Kravets / Threat Level:
U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Woah! Apple Worth More Than Microsoft And Intel Combined
 Earlier Items: 
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
MI6 Hacked Al Qaeda Website, Swapping Bomb Recipes With Cupcake Recipes
Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Microsoft sells 55 million Xbox 360 consoles, claims that's console history
Susan Panico / PlayStation Blog:
UPDATED: Welcome Back Program Available Now - Details Inside
 

 
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Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
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After a reporter for Aamulehti, Finland's second-largest daily, acknowledged in his autobiography that he fabricated stories, the paper removes 551 articles
 
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