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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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@kevinmitnick, CNET News, Naked Security, Boing Boing, @alfrules, @flexxpoint, @lulzsec, @sacboy916, @ioerror, THN, L.A. Times Tech Blog and @jaraparilla
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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.
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New York Times, Sony Pictures, Digital Trends, Neowin.net and GamePolitics News
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.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and PC World, Thanks:paulfallon
David Heinemeier Hansson / Short Logic:
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal — Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they're currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they'll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
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knewton.com, At Your Servers, Best Engaging Communities, @jasonfried and @rsarver, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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Andrew Chen, Betabeat, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, Online Marketing Trends, The Awl, The Business Insider, Screenwerk and Quora, Thanks:yipitdata
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Groupon: Doomed to Fail or Worth a Leap? A Twitter Debate
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MarketingVox News & Trends, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily and alarm:clock
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 …
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, MacStories and TUAW, Thanks:arnoldkim
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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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, VatorNews, @alexdc, @hornokplease, WebProNews, StartupNorth, @miguelrios, @pkedrosky and Pulse2
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires PostRank, An Analytics Service For The Social Web
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PostRank, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, @igrigorik, Mobile Marketing Watch, AllThingsD and 9to5 Google
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Syrian Internet Shutdown — Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet. Over the course of roughly half an hour, the routes to 40 of 59 networks were withdrawn from the global routing table.
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PC Magazine, ArabCrunch, Bloomberg, Information Warfare Monitor, ONI, The Next Web, 901am, ReadWriteWeb, NPR, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, PanARMENIAN.Net, RIA Novosti, msnbc.com and Fast Company
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
Syria internet services shut down as protesters fill streets
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ZDNet, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Neowin.net, Global Voices, Engadget and Electronista
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.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, BlackBerry Cool, MacStories, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Tools, Redmond Pie, TUAW, everythingiCafe, iClarified, Electronista, App Advice and parislemon
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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@percival, VentureBeat, Examiner, The Next Web, Yahoo! News, Neowin.net, @sg, @loic, TG Daily, TechCrunch, All Facebook, Digital Life and WebProNews
Susan Panico / PlayStation Blog:
UPDATED: Welcome Back Program Available Now - Details Inside … We're so excited to welcome you back to PlayStation Network. With the PlayStation Store back online, we've been getting all caught up this week, having launched an abundance of amazing content for download on PlayStation 3 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Forms New Venture Fund, The Social+Capital Partnership — Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya will leave the company as he launches a large new venture fund called The Social+Capital Partnership, with backing from some of the worlds leading business and technology leaders.
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AllThingsD, SAI, VentureBeat and Everything Ventured
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.
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Foursquare Blog
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed — New data from comScore on the U.S. smartphone market shows Android share is still surging, while Apple is just barely growing share. — Research in Motion and Microsoft, on the other hand are being destroyed.
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comScore, Inc., Examiner, WinRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TUAW, VatorNews, bizjournals, AndroidGuys, Android Phones …, Shiny Objects, MacStories, CNET News and Electronista
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 …
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Neowin.net, Zunited, WPCentral.com, WMPoweruser.com and Gizmodo
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.
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Xbox LIVE Diamond subscription TV service to debut at E3 — Microsoft is planning to reveal its Xbox LIVE subscription TV service at E3, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is close to finishing a key number of components for its full Xbox LIVE subscription TV service.
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AppleInsider, Gameplay Today, SAI, Pocket-lint, Zunited, The Microsoft Blog, Electronista, Digital Trends, WinBeta, GeekWire, SlashGear, Eurogamer, DSLreports, LiveSide.net, VentureBeat, Geek.com, Electricpig.co.uk and CNET News
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Mac RSS champ NetNewsWire sold to Black Pixel, developer moving on — The name Brent Simmons has been joined with famed Mac (and now iOS) RSS app NetNewsWire for so long, it's hard to imagine them being put asunder. That's exactly what's happening, though: Simmons has announced that NetNewsWire …
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inessential.com, Daring Fireball and The Loop
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple iCloud: Nice incremental revenue boost, but halo effect more notable — Apple has inked its licensing pact with Universal Music Group and will reportedly charge $25 a year for an iCloud subscription. That revenue stream—once you factor in splits with the music industry …
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AppleInsider, Patently Apple, lalawag, Shiny Objects, CNET News, Appolicious Advisor and Sharing the truth …
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Apple pays music bigs $100M+
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TUAW, Examiner, ITProPortal, MediaFile, Shiny Objects, Pulse2, Geek.com, Mashable!, PC Magazine, PR Newswire, VentureBeat and MediaPost
