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October 14, 2012, 2:15 PM

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites — Last year the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through which subscribers …

More: TechCrunch, Joho the Blog, Engadget, SlashGear, WebProNews and Gizmodo

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

SNL's Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics — Saturday Night Live's latest parody sketch gives life to that oft-quted phrase ‘first world problems’. (Here's an alternative link if the one above doesn't work). In a biting take-down of some of the legitimate …

More: BetaNews, AllThingsD, Mediaite, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, TUAW, CNET, The Loop, Business Insider and Mashable!

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:

When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook — AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. — One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined …

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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Reddit leaders deflect censorship criticism and defend hands-off policies — In wake of the Gawker ban controversy, Reddit's powerful moderators test commitment to free speech — Reddit's prides itself on its decentralized meritocracy —"subreddits are a free market.

More: BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Giles Bowkett and Daily Dot. Tweets: @jwherrman. See also Mediagazer

New York Times:

U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States …

More: Foreign Policy, Slate, digitaltrends.com, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Betabeat, Technology Liberation Front, Slashdot and Associated Press

Ben Geman / Hillicon Valley:

Reid vows fresh effort to pass stalled cybersecurity bill in November

Robert Wiltbank, PhD / TechCrunch:

Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5X Returns Overall — Editor's note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD, is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute …

Tweets: @cdixon

Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWriteWeb:

[Infographic] YouTube's Top 1,000 Channels Reveal An Industry Taking Shape — YouTube is still the pesky younger sibling of television, which is the wicked uncle of Hollywood. But the social video site is slowly becoming a formidable medium in its own right, creating new business models …

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial — Microsoft has just released its first official Windows 8 commercial that highlights the upcoming release of Windows 8. The advert, which you can see above, first ran at about 12:50 PM EST.

More: The Verge. Thanks:@bdsams

Joab Jackson / Computerworld:

Apache Lucene/Solr expands across many servers — The Apache Software Foundation's widely used open source Lucene/Solr search engine package has been upgraded to accommodate its users' seemingly insatiable need to collect and use ever-larger amounts of data.

More: TechCrunch and The H Open Source

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

LulzSec hacker “neuron” pleads guilty to Sony Pictures security breach — An Arizona man has admitted to hacking a Sony Pictures website and making off with personal information for thousands of individuals as part of a campaign by the LulzSec collective. — Raynaldo Rivera …

More: Neowin and The Verge

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Amazon to Kindle customers: There's an antitrust refund incoming — Amazon has begun notifying Kindle users that they may have a refund on ebook purchases in the pipeline, in the aftermath of the antitrust settlement around price-fixing by publishers. The message, sent out to users …

More: AllThingsD, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Mashable!, BetaNews, Techie Buzz, CNET and Ars Technica. Thanks:@c_davies. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Obama and Romney talk technology policy in letters to the NY Tech Meetup — In the middle of this week, the New York Tech Meetup posted two letters that it had received, one apiece from the two leading presidential candidates. The Meetup had sent a letter to both campaigns, asking for the following:

More: NYTM, The Huffington Post, VentureBeat, CNET, Guardian, TechCrunch and Hillicon Valley

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