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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Facebook Source Code Leaked — We just received a tip that the source code for the Facebook main index page has been leaked and published on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are at least two possible ways that the source code got out - the first is that a Facebook developer has sent it out …
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Insider Chatter, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, Elliott C. Back, Mashable!, Sadagopan's weblog …, Techomical, Network(ed)News and WinExtra
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Facebook Secrets:
Facebook Home Page Code — include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/html/ init.php'; — include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/lib/home.php';&n bsp; — include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/lib/requests.php '; — include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/lib/feed/ newsfeed.php'; — include_once $_SERVER['PHP_ROOT'].'/lib/poke.php';
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
Facebook Hacked! (Or Rather, The Door Was Left Unlocked) — Update 0030h: Well, that was quick. … By the time most of you read this, it will have splattered all across Techmeme and associated blogs. But thanks to a tip at TechCrunch (where else?) it looks like Facebook has been hacked and in a big way.
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Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:
Learning from Facebook: Preventing PHP Leakage — I just posted on TC about the Facebook code leak. PHP has always been notorious for sometimes not processing requests poorly and sending back the source code for pages to the client. Because of the way mod_php works with apache …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
On getting "Winered" yesterday — My friend Dave Winer heckled me from the back row and threw me under the bus on this blog yesterday (insert "with friends like these" joke here). Dave's complaint was a I was "spamming" from the stage by talking about my latest passion …
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Burke Hansen / The Register:
Deceased Malayan hit with $218 trillion mobile bill — Roaming in the valley of the shadow of death — What otherworldly ectoplasms lurk in the oblivion of such an unholy place as accounts receivable? — A Malaysian man who paid off a $23 wireless bill and disconnected his late father's cell phone …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Takara Tomy's UMINE projector induces R&R — Takara Tomy's been known to offer up a few oddities, and while the UMINE projector (shown after the jump) may not be the most cockamamie device to escape its labs, it does reek of something sold on a shameless late-night infomercial.
Hugo Ortega / GottaBeMobile.com:
The HTC Shift — Earlier this week I asked "What do Hugo Ortega and Steve Ballmer have in common?" and today I share with you the answer - The HTC Shift! I must admit that I have been blessed many times over in the last few years with the devices that have crossed my path.
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Mobility Site, Uber Tablet, DailyTech, Life On the Wicked Stage, jkOnTheRun and Pocket PC Thoughts
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Google Video robs customers of the videos they "own" — Samuel sez, "Hey guys. Several months ago, I bought an episode of Star Trek on Google Video, just out of curiosity to see how it worked. Today I got an email letting me know my videos would stop working in five days."
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James Bannan / APC:
LEAKED: Vista SP1 analysed in-depth … It's no secret that there's a leaked beta of Vista SP1 floating around, but no-one yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does. — I made it my mission this weekend to trawl through the registry and file changes …
Dennis / iPhone World:
id Software Doom on iPhone! — More great games for the iPhone keep coming. The latest addition is an iPhone port of the classic id Software game Doom. And while the controller doesn't work as of yet and there's no audio, you can at least check out the demo games and be sure …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
I Forgot How to Write ! — I was sitting in a meeting the other day and decided I needed to take some notes . My memory isn't the worlds best, so if I think there is something worth memorializing, I will take notes. — Typically I will just use my PDA or Laptop . I can touch type pretty fast.
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
iPhone bill is surprisingly Xbox HUGE (lol) — As you enjoy your weekend, ponder this bit of humor: while the iPhone may be master of the digital mobile experience (for now), dead trees come in for a flogging, as AT&T's iPhone bills are quite impressive in their own right.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Pack Adds StarOffice — Google Pack, the collection of applications recommended by Google, includes a new software: StarOffice, an office suite developed by Sun. In 2000 Sun released StarOffice's source code, which became the foundation of OpenOffice.org, an open source project sponsored by Sun.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Microsoft one vote short of fast-track OOXML ISO standardization — Executive board members of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), the organization that represents the United States in ISO standardization deliberations, recently held an internal poll …
Bre Pettis / MAKE Magazine:
The Hacker Tool Law in Effect — Today in Germany the Hacker Tool Law goes into effect. With the official name of Paragraph 202C it states that it is illegal to possess, use, produce, or distribute a "hacker tool". — In theory, law enforcement could come and arrest everyone here at Chaos Communications Camp.
