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December 10, 2012, 8:50 AM

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Confirmed: Effective Immediately, Say Goodbye to Instagram Photos Inside of Twitter — Instagram completely turned off support for Twitter Cards technology on Sunday, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllThingsD. — While users can still post links to their Instagram photos on Twitter …

More: Telegraph, Engadget, GigaOM, CNET, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Marketing Pilgrim, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AllTwitter, iMore, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, SeekingAlpha.com, Business Insider, PC Magazine, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Mashable!, PC World, iPhone Hacks and TechCrunch

Tweets: @levie, @levie, @parislemon, @semil, @mikeisaac and @spencerchen

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook and Instagram to Crack Down on Insta-Spam

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Australian Police Warn Against Use of Apple Maps Due to Safety Concerns — Police in Victoria, Australia issued a warning to motorists this weekend regarding Apple Maps after several travelers became stranded in the Murray-Sunset National Park trying to reach the city of Mildura using Apple's directions.

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Yahoo teams up with NBC Sports to share online and broadcast sports news and coverage — Yahoo has announced a partnership with NBC Sports that will see the two pool their sports reporting, broadcasts and news coverage in an effort to build the US' largest dedicated sports news platforms.

More: Yahoo! Inc., Reuters, bizjournals, CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, Media Decoder, Broadcasting & Cable, Associated Press, AllThingsD and Engadget. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October — It was big news when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the world that Windows Phone devices were selling at four times their rate from 2011. That, along with several other positive factors …

More: WMPoweruser, Neowin, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Windows 8 Beta, WMPoweruser and The Verge

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

The enduring Apple TV Fantasy — We all want TV Done Right, free of the Soviet Era set-top box, UI and opaque contracts. We imagine Apple will put all the pieces together. But what's desirable and “obvious” might not be so simple or soon... “When I go into my living room and turn on the TV …

More: ReadWrite. Tweets: @jblin and @pkafka

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in < 6 hours — Welcome to Radeon City, population: 8. It's one of five servers that make up a high-performance password-cracking cluster. — Jeremi Gosney — A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster …

More: gHacks Technology News and nbcnews.com

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Silicon nanophotonics: IBM's light chips could save data centers from bandwidth traffic jams — IBM is announcing today it has created breakthrough silicon nanophotonics chips, or those that can use traditional silicon technology and laser light to transfer data at extremely high speeds.

More: TechEye, ZDNet, Computerworld, CNET, Engadget, TG Daily and SlashGear

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Barnes & Noble signs deals with HBO, Sony and others to launch Nook Video service for tablets in the UK — In a move that echoes its major rival Amazon, Barnes & Noble has signed deals with major worldwide studios to launch its new Nook Video service for its recently launched Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets in the UK.

More: The Register, Inquirer, Business Wire, TechCrunch, Engadget, Electronista, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Brad Reed / BGR:

Cold water for Google Fiber fans: Covering the whole country could cost $140 billion — Bad news for those of us who would love to see Google (GOOG) expand its fiber network out to the entire country: Doing so may be prohibitively expensive. Business Insider points us to a new research note …

More: Electronista, Slashdot and Android Central

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung reveals final details of Galaxy S3 ‘Premium Suite Upgrade’, includes easy mode, camera updates — Last week Samsung teased owners of the Galaxy S III smartphone with details of its ‘Premium Suite Upgrade’ — aka new Jelly Bean update — that it has begun introducing for the device …

More: BetaNews, SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, digitaltrends.com, TechCrunch and Techie Buzz

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

Arab proposal prompts ‘impasse’ at UN net regulation talks — A UN meeting has set Britain, the United States and other Western countries against Arab States and Russia in a diplomatic battle over whether the internet should be more regulated. — The UN's WCIT conference in Dubai

More: Techdirt, Associated Press and BBC

Pete Norman / Sky News:

Twitter Fined Over UK Business Accounts Delay — Twitter failed to lodge two sets of financial accounts at Companies House — Social media giant Twitter has been fined after failing to file its UK corporate accounts, Sky News has learned. — The company was due to lodge its annual accounts …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and TechEye

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