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August 27, 2013, 9:30 PM

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, NYT Through Registrar Melbourne IT — The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the domain name servers of two of Twitter's sites, and a third appears to have been redirected to servers hosted by the SEA.

More: GigaOM, NEWS.com.au, VentureBeat, The Verge, BBC, CNNMoney.com, Business Insider, ABC News, Digits, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, ZDNet, The Next Web, Businessweek, Electronista, Ubergizmo, RT and BuzzFeed

Tweets: @official_sea16, @official_sea16, @nyteileen, @mattjay, @panzer, @chaughney, @samfbiddle, @nytimes, @laurahazardowen, @pourmecoffee, @steved3 and @prwerdel

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Twitter Status:

twitter service issue — At 20:49 UTC, our DNS provider experienced an issue in which it appears DNS records for various organizations were modified, including one of Twitter's domains used for image serving, twimg.com. Viewing of images and photos was sporadically impacted.

More: Daring Fireball, SC Magazine and Engadget

Tweets: @anonopsse and @newsbreaker

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Times Web Site Affected by External Hacking Attack — The New York Times Web site was unavailable to readers on Tuesday afternoon following an attack on the company's domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The attack also required employees of The Times to stop sending out sensitive e-mails.

More: The Next Web, Domain Name Wire, The Register, GigaOM, ReadWrite, ABC News, Mashable, Gizmodo, NEWS.com.au and The Verge

Tweets: @nycjim, @sjwilliams and @antderosa

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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Syrian Electronic Army attack suspected on New York Times; group also claims Twitter hack — The Web site for the New York Times was inaccessible for some users Tuesday, apparently as the result of a malicious attack. Tuesday's outage comes less than two weeks after the site suffered an outage that lasted approximately two hours.

More: The Next Web, Ars Technica, Reuters, Computerworld, ABC News, Forbes, Hillicon Valley, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Bloomberg, SocialTimes and Los Angeles Times

Tweets: @matthewkeyslive and @emilydparker

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Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Hackers Controlled The New York Times By Hacking A Website In Australia

Colin Stretch / Facebook:

Global Government Requests Report — Transparency and trust are core values at Facebook. We strive to embody them in all aspects of our services, including our approach to responding to government data requests. We want to make sure that the people who use our service understand the nature …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

New Facebook report shows over 25,000 government requests for user data worldwide

More: San Francisco Chronicle, Guardian and Electronista

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV updated with Vevo, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Weather Channel, Smithsonian apps — Today, Apple has issued an over-the-air update to the Apple TV that brings several new content apps. Notably, in line with expectations, an app for the Vevo Music Video service has arrived.

More: VEVO.com, MacRumors, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechHive, Digits, PadGadget, The Next Web, IntoMobile, I4U News, VentureBeat, everythingiCafe, Engadget, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, TechSpot and BGR

Tweets: @chartier, @pkafka, @reneritchie, @pkafka and @parislemon

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Dan Frommer / SplatF:

The Apple TV App Store Can't Be Too Far Away

More: Forbes, 9to5Mac and CNET

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's iPhone ‘Reuse and Recycle’ trade-in program detailed, begins rolling out August 30th — Yesterday, we reported that Apple is gearing up to launch its iPhone trade-in program in September. The program will allow an iPhone user to exchange an older iPhone model for a new iPhone at a discounted price.

More: Los Angeles Times, Macworld, Business Insider, ABC News, It's a Gadget, TUAW, Benzinga, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, App Advice, LAPTOP Magazine, CNN and Forbes. Thanks:@luminaryws

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8.1 is officially finished, but everyone has to wait until October 18th — Microsoft is confirming today, after recent reports, that the company has completed Windows 8.1 and is releasing it to manufacturing (RTM). The finalization of the Windows 8 update means that hardware partners …

More: The Windows Blog, TechNet Blogs, LAPTOP Magazine, MSDN Blogs, ZDNet, The Next Web, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, GeekWire, BetaNews, Examiner, PC World, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and Engadget

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

With no early Windows 8.1 RTM bits, what's a developer to do?

More: The Windows Blog, TechCrunch, Computerworld, WindowsITPro and SuperSite for Windows

Bloomberg:

Twitter Hires Commerce Chief to Add Shopping Via Tweets — Twitter Inc. hired Nathan Hubbard, the former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce, part of a push to enable shopping via short postings on its social website. — Hubbard, 38, started at San Francisco-based Twitter this week …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Verge, internetretailer.com, AllThingsD and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @nathanchubbard, @mikeisaac, @sg, @rsarver, @besvinick, @nytimesbits, @fromedome and @mikeisaac

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Michael Kassner / TechRepublic:

Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means — There were doubts about being able to reverse engineer heavily-obfuscated applications written in Python. Two researchers have removed all doubt by reverse engineering the immensely popular Dropbox client.

More: It's a Gadget, Geek.com and The Switch

Tweets: @cperciva, @pirateorg and @cgpgrey

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Parallels Access puts Mac and PC apps on your iPad for $79.99 — Parallels is best known for its virtualization software that lets Mac owners seamlessly run Microsoft's Windows OS. But today the company is taking up another mission: it's attempting to bring desktop apps to the iPad …

More: Engadget, Macworld, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and TUAW

John Martellaro / The Mac Observer:

Run Any Mac or PC App Remotely on Your iPad with Parallels Access

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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:

The CODE Keyboard — What would you do, if you could do anything? — I don't mean in a fantasy superhero way, but in terms of resources. If someone told you that you now had the resources to attempt to make one thing happen in the world, one real thing, what would that be?

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @timbray, @isaach, @shanselman and @siracusa

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Fires Back After Box Steps On Its Turf, Boosts SkyDrive Pro Storage To 25 GB — This is the real storage wars. Today Microsoft announced that it has increased the storage capacity of its SkyDrive Pro cloud document storage and syncing service to 25 gigabytes, from the formerly proffered 7 gigabytes.

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, PC World, The Register, ZDNet, BetaNews, GeekWire, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows, Engadget and SlashGear

Fortune:

AllThingsD nears split with Dow Jones — The future of influential tech website All Things Digital is close to being decided. Reuters reported in February that AllThingsD co-executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg had begun discussions with owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. …

More: GigaOM, It's a Gadget, Silicon Valley Watcher, bizjournals and ZDNet

Tweets: @bridgetwi, @danprimack, @rafat, @hblodget, @felixsalmon, @felixsalmon, @nytimesbits and @jayrosen_nyu

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Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

BlackBerry Weighs Messenger Spinoff — Move Signals Firm Is Trying to Position BBM as a Valuable Asset Ahead of Potential Sale — BlackBerry Ltd. is considering spinning off its messaging service into a subsidiary that would operate with more independence, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: PandoDaily, The Register, Ars Technica, n4bb.com, Telegraph, Ubergizmo, eWeek, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat and GigaOM. Tweets: @parislemon

Brian Fung / The Switch:

Inside the Bitcoin advocates' closed-door meeting with federal regulators — The U.S. government took the latest step toward regulating virtual currencies on Monday as representatives from the Bitcoin Foundation met behind closed doors with federal officials in Washington.

More: Business Insider, Associated Press and Daily Dot. Tweets: @willnoon

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Google calls book scanning “transformative” in latest push for fair use ruling — Google and the Authors Guild's eight-year legal fight over digital books is coming to a head once again, as both sides prepare to make their final case next month about whether Google's scanning …

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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Kobo launches new e-reader and tablets and partners with read-it-later service Pocket — E-reading company Kobo is releasing a new e-reader and three new tablets and launching a book discovery tool called “Beyond the Book,” the company announced at an event in New York Tuesday evening.

More: Engadget, Engadget, Engadget, CNET, PC World - Tablets, Wired, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, BBC and TechnoBuffalo. See also Mediagazer

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