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October 19, 2012, 10:45 AM

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Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:

Watch Reddit's Biggest Troll Defend Himself — Michael Brutsch, a 49-year-old man who posted on Reddit under the name Violentacrez until Gawker's Adrian Chen outed him, went on Anderson Cooper 360 to defend himself on camera for the first time. — Brutsch's Reddit persona became famous …

More: Betabeat, MOTHERBOARD, Forbes, TechCrunch, Gawker, Freedom to Tinker, Gizmodo UK and CNN

Tweets: @kevinrose and @waxpancake

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Lauren Weinstein / Lauren Weinstein's Blog:

An Internet Monster, Reddit, and Free Speech — There are some topics that I just can't wait to write about. This isn't one of them. In fact, I've been putting this off for days, basically because I find the underlying theme so personally repugnant and disgusting. But the topic is important, and proceed we will.

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

iPhone Uber-Hacker Comex Is Out At Apple — Apple's brief experiment in employing one of the most brilliant hackers to ever vivisect its machines seems to be over. — On Thursday the legendary iPhone hacker Comex, who I identified last year as 20-year old Brown University student Nicholas Allegra …

More: Engadget, Macgasm, Ubergizmo, iLounge, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, Phones Review, Redmond Pie, Computerworld, SlashGear, The Verge, Examiner, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, PhoneArena and Mashable!. Tweets: @comex

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Airtime, a Pedigreed Start-Up, Is Struggling — It sounds like a recipe for success for a new start-up: Two famed entrepreneurs, tens of millions of dollars in the bank and endorsements from celebrities like Alicia Keys and Jim Carrey. — But Airtime, the much-hyped video chat site created …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @pkafka

Ilya Pozin / Forbes:

Is Pheed the New Twitter? — Miley Cyrus seems to think so. As does Ashley Tisdale, David Guetta, Paris Hilton, Chris Brown, and thousands of others who have joined the site in a matter of days. — So what is Pheed? — In short, think of it as Twitter, with a business plan.

More: Marketing Pilgrim and AllTwitter. Tweets: @jpbarlow, @mikko and @counternotions

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian:

Apple starts work on massive Prineville data center — Apple has begun work on the first, $68 million phase of its new Prineville data center, clearing and flattening land for the one of two, 338,000 square-foot buildings atop the bluff that overlooks town. — Each building is more than twice the size of a typical Costco store.

More: MacRumors, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Macgasm, Wired and iDownloadBlog.com

Sam Byford / The Verge:

New Samsung Chromebook also available with 3G for $329.99 — We were under the impression that Google's new Samsung Chromebook would only be able to hook up to the internet via Wi-Fi, but it seems that something got lost in the announcement. A 3G model will in fact be available …

More: CNET, The H Open Source, ZDNet, Inquirer, GigaOM, Google Operating System, GadgeTell, Engadget, The Official Google Blog, SlashGear, Telegraph, Pocketables, Gizmodo and The Next Web

Daniel Rubino / wpcentral:

Microsoft Stores giving out Surface reservation passes — Looks like if you live near a Microsoft Store or even a pop-up holiday kiosk you can stop by and get a reservation card good for one Surface RT come October 26th. — The info comes via our forums where member jdevenberg was given …

More: CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo, WinBeta, PhoneArena, Softpedia News and Neowin

Will Oremus / Slate:

Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education — Honorable mentions go to New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission for driving out Uber's online taxi-hailing service and to automobile dealers' groups in four states for trying to have Tesla dealerships declared illegal.

More: Techdirt, WebProNews, bizjournals, Geekosystem, Wired Campus and Slashdot

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad — Ever since last month's Apple event for the iPhone 5 and new iPod Touch, I've been asked the same two questions about the impending smaller iPad with more frequency than any questions in recent memory.

More: Business Insider, InfoWorld and Fortune

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's iPad Mini Could Cannibalize 15 Percent of Standard iPad Sales

More: ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, CNET, TechSpot, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News and iClarified

Dan Moren / Macworld:

iCloud: Sharing done wrong — Despite the prominent addition of sharing features in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, the company's concept of “sharing” is actually a narrow one. And in an increasingly interconnected era—when people are spending more and more time sharing words, images, files …

More: MacStories

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Apple removes Java from all OS X Web browsers — Apple has further distanced itself from Oracle's Java software framework with a Mac update released on Wednesday that removes a Java plugin from all Mac-compatible Web browsers. — Users who install the update will find a browser placeholder …

More: Inquirer, SlashGear, Naked Security, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Register, Computerworld, gHacks Technology News, nbcnews.com and Softpedia News

Eric Mack / CNET:

Bitten: Apple's ‘blasphemous’ logo under fire in Russia — Some Russian Orthodox Christians see the iconic logo as a symbol of sin that they would like to see outlawed. — You might make the case that Apple is sinful based on the gluttony for gadgets it inspires, but some extreme Orthodox Christians …

More: Betabeat, PhoneArena and MacDailyNews

John Callaham / Neowin:

Microsoft promises better IMAP support in Outlook 2013 — Previous versions of Microsoft's Outlook email client have not pleased users who have been waiting for more support for the Internet Message Access Protocol, better known as IMAP. Indeed, the recently launched email web service Outlook.com does not support IMAP.

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, Guardian, WinBeta, Microsoft News and WMPoweruser

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Adds 25 Million New Building Footprints To Google Maps On Desktop And Mobile — Google just announced that it has added 25 million new building footprints to Google Maps. Most of the company's recent announcement around mapping had to do with flashy updates like 3D maps and buildings …

More: BetaNews, Engadget, Softpedia News, Mashable!, CNET, PhoneArena and Google LatLong

Ty Pendlebury / CNET:

Ultra High Definition officially replaces 4K — The Consumer Electronics Association has announced that the consumer name for 4K will be Ultra HD and gears up for displays to be shown off at next year's CES in Las Vegas. — The display format formerly known as 4K will now be called 'Ultra High Definition …

More: VentureBeat, DailyTech, SlashGear, CEA, Gizmodo UK and The Verge

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google Play Store carrier billing coming to Verizon in ‘the coming weeks’ — Earlier this year Sprint began supporting carrier billing for the Google Play Store, allowing customers to purchase apps, movies, or music, and have the charges end up on their phone bill.

More: BetaNews, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Engadget, Droid Life and Softpedia News

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Yahoo to exit South Korea in first Asian pullout — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's South Korean operation said on Friday it will quit the country, underscoring its struggle against Google Inc and local competitors expanding aggressively into mobile advertising and online services.

More: SiliconANGLE, Yodel Anecdotal, Associated Press, TechCrunch, The Next Web, PandoDaily, ITProPortal and Tech in Asia

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Sony to start Xperia upgrades to Jelly Bean by mid-Q1, rules out all 2011 phones — We've got mixed news for those who were wondering just where Sony's Jelly Bean updates were headed. The good? Sony has narrowed down its upgrade schedule for the Xperia T, Xperia TX and Xperia V to the middle …

More: BetaNews and Techie Buzz

FRANCE 24:

Google threatens ‘to stopping linking to French media sites’ — Google has threatened to stop linking to French media sites in protest against a proposed French law that would force search engines to pay for content, according to media reports Wednesday. — Internet giant Google has threatened …

More: Search Engine Land, BBC, googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.be, CNET, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, TechCrunch, iTnews.com.au, The Next Web and Telegraph. See also Mediagazer

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Sony closes Japan factory, cuts 2,000 jobs — Summary: The consumer electronics giant has cut another 2,000 jobs in Japan as the firm continues its battle against a cash hemorrhaging problem after weaker than expected first-quarter results. — Zack Whittaker

More: CNET, The Next Web, Sony Global, Computerworld, Engadget, The Japan Daily Press, SlashGear and ITProPortal

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Distimo Launches Daily App Leaderboard & AppIQ Service To Offer Competitive Data On App Downloads, Revenue, Rankings & More — App store analytics firm Distimo is rebranding its cross-platform app tracking service known as Distimo Monitor to Distimo Analytics today, and adding a new data service …

More: The Next Web, Gamasutra, VentureBeat and Inside Mobile Apps

Isabela Fraga / Knight Center for Journalism …:

Brazilian newspapers leave Google News en masse — Brazil's main newspapers abandoned Google News after the world's top search engine refused to compensate them for the rights to their headlines. The mass rush started last year when the National Association of Newspapers in Brazil, or ANJ …

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Donna Tam / CNET:

Facebook to hold Gifts event at FAO Schwartz in New York — The social network sends out an invite to a November 1 press event for its gifting service, but offers no other clues about the upcoming news. — Facebook has sent out a barebones invite to a press event in New York next month …

More: Mashable! and AllThingsD

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer in Talks to Join Jawbone Board — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is considering joining the board of Jawbone, the high-profile wireless gadget maker whose products include the Jambox speaker and the Up personal fitness wristband, according to sources close to the situation.

More: SlashGear

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Systrom on Andreessen Horowitz: Of course I was furious, but it made everyone work harder — No one likes to be told that the thing they're the most passionate about isn't worthwhile. Least of all, an entrepreneur who's pouring their soul into a venture in lieu of taking a more cushy traditional job.

More: Business Insider

Eric Caoili / Gamasutra:

Zynga settles lawsuit with PyramidVille developer — Zynga has settled its trademark infringement lawsuit against another developer that attempted to add a “Ville” suffix to its game titles, this time French studio Kobojo, maker of PyramidVille. — The social game giant has made it a point …

More: The Verge, Joystiq and GamesIndustry International

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Sina Weibo rolls out attractive redesign with Google+ style selective sharing — Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo has begun allowing users to switch over to a new version for the Web that adds an option for selective sharing similar to the Circles feature in Google+.

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