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October 14, 2012, 4:15 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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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