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August 28, 2013, 12:30 PM

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Matthew Prince / CloudFlare Blog:

Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks … At 1:19pm (PDT) today, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading. We know the New York Times tech team, so we sent an email to check in. A few minutes later, the CTO of the NYT called us back.

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Syrian Electronic Army Says Attack on New York Times Is Over — The website of the New York Times entered its second day of less than full availability to its readers following an attack by an outside party on its Internet domain name registration record. — The attack coincided with a similar …

More: The Next Web, Examiner, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Los Angeles Times, ZDNet and Washington Post. See also Mediagazer

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Times Site Is Disrupted in Attack by Hackers

More: PC World, InfoWorld, Business Insider, Gizmodo, CNN, Digital Trends, SecurityWeek, Electronista, Dyn, BuzzFeed, Gawker, New York Times, Softpedia News, Domain Name Wire and VentureBeat

Tweets: @nyteileen and @mattboggie

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

HTC Develops China-Focused Mobile Operating System — Taiwanese Handset Maker Works With China in Bid to Revive Sales — TAIPEI—HTC Corp. is developing a mobile software system specifically for Chinese consumers, people familiar with the project say, as part of a big China bet …

More: eWeek, PC Magazine, GigaOM, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BGR, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, ZDNet, It's a Gadget, pocketnow.com, Wired.co.uk, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, I4U News, Digital Trends, The Verge, SlashGear, MoneyBeat, Engadget, Android Beat and MobileSyrup.com

Tweets: @wsj and @paulmozur

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Does HTC's own mobile OS for China make sense? It depends

More: Android Beat

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression — Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer graphics while minimizing memory requirements …

More: rapidus.se, AllThingsD, Macworld, The Next Web, AppleInsider, ZDNet, GigaOM, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Business Insider, iMore, BGR, Engadget, PhoneArena, ValueWalk, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, BGR India, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Mashable, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, I4U News, Patently Apple and TUAW. Tweets: @markgurman

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nintendo dropping Wii U price to $299.99 ahead of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launch — The Wii U hasn't been selling quite as well as Nintendo might like, and September 20th it's giving the new console a $50 price cut that'll bring it down to $299.99. Earlier this month …

More: VentureBeat, Digits, TechCrunch, Engadget, USA Today, IGN, Eurogamer.net and Polygon

Michael McWhertor / Polygon:

Nintendo 2DS coming this Oct. for $129.99, plays 3DS games in 2D — Nintendo is releasing a new version of its Nintendo 3DS hardware that's playable only in 2D. It's called the Nintendo 2DS and will be available in North America on Oct. 12 for $129.99. — Nintendo 2DS plays the entire library …

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, New York Times, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile and Joystiq

Tweets: @josh, @crecenteb, @aegies and @jasonschreier

eMarketer:

Facebook Sees Big Gains in Global Mobile Ad Market Share — Google to take home half of $16.65 billion worldwide mobile ad market — Facebook's continued emphasis on mobile monetization, along with its users' ongoing shift toward mobile devices, is resulting in dramatic gains in mobile ad market share …

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechCrunch, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Mashable, bizjournals and Softpedia News. Tweets: @ericfranchi

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels — The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time Warner Cable is a significant part …

More: oxm.co.uk, Engadget, WebProNews, VentureBeat and IntoMobile. Tweets: @nctacable. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Time Warner Cable's new Xbox app won't count against data caps

More: The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple looking to turn the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, ‘smart home’ remote control — An Apple patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday describes a method in which a portable device, like the iPhone, can save, manage and recall entertainment and “smart home” system settings, called “scenes.”

More: 9to5Mac, I4U News, SlashGear, MacRumors, TechCrunch, MacNN, PC Magazine and MacDailyNews

Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

Foursquare's impressive new Windows 8 app: Good for Foursquare, great for Microsoft — Foursquare's new Windows 8 app may not be the biggest deal for Foursquare, but it's huge for Microsoft. — With the app, which was officially announced in June, Foursquare takes some of the best parts about Windows 8 …

More: The Next Web, The Windows Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Foursquare Blog, MSDN Blogs, Softpedia News and TechNet Blogs

John Cassidy / The New Yorker:

Steve Ballmer and the Art of Managing a Monopoly — Steve Ballmer hasn't been getting much love recently. On Friday, when he announced that he plans to retire as Microsoft's C.E.O. at some point within the next year, the firm's stock had its best day in years, rising seven per cent.

More: Yahoo! Finance. Tweets: @dbfarber, @tnyjohncassidy, @taylorlorenz, @peterhvu and @mrianleslie

Simon Bisson / ZDNet:

What Microsoft and Google's YouTube row says about the future of web development — Summary: The Google/Microsoft YouTube dispute tells you more about the way software for the mobile internet is being developed that you might have thought. — When it comes to Google and Microsoft's dispute …

Tweets: @saschasegan and @theromit

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Teardown Reveals Google's Moto X Costs $221 to Build — As the first smartphone to be completely designed since Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, there are a lot of expectations riding on the Moto X. — The phone, now considered the flagship of the Motorola lineup, is getting noticed for being different.

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechHive, Forbes, The Verge, SlashGear, Android Beat, The Official Motorola Blog, TechnoBuffalo and PhoneArena

Mark Hachman / TechHive:

Apple is the company most targeted by patent trolls — Apple, HP and Samsung have been attacked the most by so-called “patent trolls” within the last five years, a Silicon Valley lawyer said Tuesday. But recent legislative activity may be weakening their power.

More: Fortune, AppleInsider, MacRumors, SlashGear and TUAW

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Car Sharing Startup Local Motion Gets $6 Million Investment, Steven Sinofsky On Its Board — Steven Sinofsky is joining the board of car sharing technology startup Local Motion. — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (AH) is investing $6 million in Local Motion. Sinofsky recently joined Andreessen Horowitz.

More: AllThingsD, Digits, VentureBeat, GeekWire, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, pmarca and bizjournals

Tweets: @stevesi, @stevesi and @sai

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Google drops Nexus 4 price, now starts at $199 — The Nexus 4 just got a lot cheaper. The company's flagship Android phone is now available for a full $100 less than it was just hours ago. The 8GB model is on sale through the Google Play Store for $199 with a contract, while the 16GB model is $249.

More: Engadget, Inquirer, Examiner, LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, BGR, Computerworld, iPhone, Android Police, Softpedia News, Gearburn, Android Beat, pocketnow.com, GigaOM, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web and Android Police. Tweets: @googleplay

Simon Sharwood / The Register:

Marc Andreessen, Pat Gelsinger in verbal VMworld brawl — Netscape legend and VMware CEO clash on security, ARM vs. x86 and role of cloud — VMworld 2013 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and graphical-browser-inventor-turned- venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen have engaged in a feisty debate at Vmworld 2013 …

More: Forbes. Tweets: @matteastwood

David Kravets / Wired:

Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling FBI Access to U.S. Supercomputers — Cray XT4 supercomputer cluster (Franklin) has 9,660 compute nodes. Each has quad-core AMD processors running at 2.3 GHz. Franklin has 38,640 processor cores, with 8 GB of memory per node and a total 350 TB of usable disk space.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, Softpedia News and SlashGear

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Exclusive: Google+ Hangouts goes HD as it switches from H.264 to VP8. Next up, WebRTC. — Noticed any differences when using Google's Hangouts video chat lately? If you did, then you may be one of the lucky users who has already received an upgrade to 720p HD video.

More: Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Softpedia News

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