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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Arizona Confirms LulzSec Docs Are Authentic, Worries About Officer Safety  —  Officials in Arizona have confirmed that the documents dumped by the hacker group LulzSec are authentic.  They also say they're concerned that the release of personal information about some officers could compromise their safety.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data In Retaliation For Immigration Law  —  LulzSec has just released a a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement.  —  From their press release:
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Winklevoss twins press Facebook case in Boston federal court after dropping Supreme Court appeal  —  As the old saying goes, it ain't over until it's over.  —  And Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are not finished with Facebook yet.  The dramatic seven-year legal feud that inspired “The Social Network” may have one last plot twist.
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 is out, and you need it for Lion  —  Say, had you wondered about those strange system requirements for Apple's Final Cut Pro X — Mac OS X 10.6.8, yet only dot seven was available?  Wonder no more.  Late today, Apple released the dot 8 update, quite likely the last before OS X 10.7, aka “Lion”, releases next month.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Nanosys' awesome new screen technology gonna be in iPad 3?  I hope so.  Wow.  —  When Nanosys CEO Jason Hartlove pulled two iPads out of his bag and turned them on one looked like when I first saw my first Kodachrome slide while the other looked muddy and crappy in comparison …
Business Week:
Why Some Skypers Are Seeing Red  —  Departing employees have had their stock options zeroed out  —  For decades, people such as Yee Lee have been coming to Silicon Valley for the opportunity to work not just for a salary but for stock options that give employees the right to buy a chunk …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Googleopoly: The Definitive Guide To Antitrust Investigations Against Google  —  We're another step closer to the US Federal Trade Commission launching an expected antitrust investigation of Google.  If it does, the FTC will join the EU and Texas in doing broad investigations.
Discussion: Digits
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Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
FTC to Serve Google With Subpoenas in Broad Antitrust Probe
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
In-Stream Ads Are Coming To Twitter, Will A User Revolt Follow?  —  After nine months of testing in-stream Promoted Tweets on third party client Hootsuite, reports have surfaced today that Twitter's head of monetization Adam Bain has been pushing a new in-timeline Promoted Tweets product during …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
MacBook Air Q3 sales to double combined sales of all Macs last quarter, report claims  —  Apple plans to ship more than 8 million MacBook Air computers in the third quarter of 2011, DigiTimes claims in a new report on Friday.  The number represents more than twice the total number …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Jack Clark / ZDNet:
Google: ‘At scale, everything breaks’  —  Q&A  —  Google operates technology that is expected to be reliable in the face of major traffic demands.  —  To scale its services, the company has developed many systems, such as MapReduce and Google File System, that have since been made open source …
Discussion: The Register
Ricky Laishram / Digitizor:
Jingle Becomes The Default Protocol For Google Talk's VoIP  —  Google has announced that Google Talk calls will now use the Jingle (XEP-166 and XEP-167) protocol as the primary signaling protocol.  —  Jingle is an extension of the XMPP which supports peer-to-peer multimedia interaction such as VoIP and Videoconferencing.
Ben Elowitz / AllThingsD:
The Web Is Shrinking.  Now What?  —  We all read the statistics every week documenting the meteoric new growth areas of the Internet, and they are impressive:  —  Online video is exploding, with annual user growth of more than 45 percent.  Mobile-device time spent increased 28 percent last year …
Discussion: @tcarmody and @mathewi
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Prototype dual-screened 2-in-1 Android smartpad from Imerj preview  —  From the front it looks like yet another plain smartphone — dark, nondescript, and maybe a little like an iPhone 4 that's had its right-most extent sliced off.  Pick it up, though, and you realize this little thing isn't so nondescript.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The State Of iFund: 3 Years, 25 Companies, 2 Exits, Over 300 Million Downloads This Year  —  Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund.  Technically, the fund started in March of 2008 alongside …
Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:
Google Rolls Out Behavioral Targeting To All AdWords Advertisers  —  Google is finally rolling out the ability to target ads to users by interest — based on their previous browsing activity, or behavior — to all of its advertisers.  The company first announced a beta test of this capability …
Thanks:louisgray
Shirlene Lim / The Windows Blog:
Upping our game: What's new in the Games Hub for Mango  —  I used to play games on my Xbox only on the weekends.  Now that I work on and own a Windows Phone, I play them at least once a day.  As a new “avid gamer” and one of the program managers behind the Games Hub, I'm excited …
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Testing Home Page Design That Keeps Ads and Bookmarks Visible as You Scroll  —  Facebook is testing a new home page design that allows the news feed to be scrolled independently of the rest of the page.  This allows ads, app bookmarks, and the top navigation bar to remain visible …
Discussion: Neowin.net and VentureBeat
Todd Haselton / BGR:
40% of European smartphone buyers intend to buy an iPhone next  —  Yankee Group is set to release its European Mobile User Study next month and the research firm has just provided a quick glimpse into its early findings.  Reportedly, 40% of European smartphone buyers plan to purchase an iPhone as their next device.
Discussion: AppleInsider, Electronista and Fudzilla
Evan Williams / Evhead:
Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important  —  While discussing possible names for a product recently, someone asked me if we were at the point where getting the perfect domain name was less important than it used to be.  While I'm still a sucker for a clean .com, it does seem less important …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Mainstream Location App Life360 Hits 3 Million Users: Here's Its Disruptive Plan  —  Early adopters may love to check in at nightlife hotspots on Foursquare and Facebook Places, but what might location technology look like once it moves into the mainstream?  Fast-growing startup Life360 …
Discussion: Street Fight
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft sees a future for Kinect avatars in health care  —  Microsoft's Craig Mundie showing an Avatar Kinect prototype at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle today.  —  As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Getting The Band Back Together: Picadee Founded And Funded By The iLike Guys  —  Keep an eye on yet-to-be launched Picadee, a new Seattle startup getting some buzz.  The company was founded by former iLike employees Marcus Womack, Mike Bohlander, Ray Fortna and Josh Hepfer …
Discussion: TechFlash
Robert McMillan / PC World:
AT&T IPad Hacker Pleads Guilty  —  A 26-year-old man who last year helped hackers publish personal information belonging to about 120,000 iPad users pleaded guilty to fraud and hacking charges in a New Jersey court Thursday.  —  Daniel Spitler pleaded guilty in federal court to two felony charges …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
eBay Acquired Magento For Over $180 Million - But Not Everyone Is Smiling  —  Earlier this month, eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we've heard from multiple sources that the ecommerce and digital payments giant paid north …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
New iOS Camera Features in the Works + Glass Apple Store TM on the Way  —  On June 23, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled “Image Capture Device Having Tilt and/or Perspective Correction.  Apple's patent generally relates to image capture devices …
Discussion: Crave and AppleInsider
 
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Soluto Raises $10.2 Million In B Round
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Great Firewall of China getting a small cloud-based silver lining
Discussion: Fast Company and Penn Olson
Laura Chambers / The PayPal Blog:
PayPal Doubles Mobile Payments Predictions to $3 billion in 2011
Discussion: AllThingsD and TechCrunch, Thanks:paypal
Alex Knapp / Robot Overlords:
Nevada Passes Law Authorizing Driverless Cars
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Yahoo Chairman Backs CEO Bartz, but Investor Wants Her out
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Even MySpace's Founders Have Stopped Using MySpace
Discussion: Business Week and The Social Path
 Earlier Items: 
Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:
The PROTECT IP Act Will Slow Start-up Innovation
Discussion: A VC, Techdirt and @timoreilly
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Danish police proposal: Ban anonymous Internet use
Discussion: Electronista
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Card.io Lets You Pay on Mobile by Holding a Credit Card Up to the Phone
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Harry Potter and the amazing exploding book industry