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Roger Thompson / Exploit Prevention Labs:
Alicia Keys MySpace page is hacked — Attacks on MySpace seem to be on the rise. First, at the end of October, there were a number of links added as friend-comments that went via MySpace's open-redirector (MSPlinks) to exploit sites in China. This was reported publicly on the FunSec mailing list.
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TechCrunch, Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, Read/WriteWeb, Webware.com, Mashable! and ZDNet.com.au
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Stefanie Olsen / Webware.com:
WORDPRESS FOUNDER LOOKS INTO BLOGGING'S FUTURE — LAS VEGAS, Nev.—If you type "Matt" into the Google search bar, you won't immediately get results for the actor Matt Damon or the political site owner Matt Drudge, as you might expect. — Instead, the No. 1 listing points to the site of Matt Mullenweg …
IEBlog:
IE Automatic Component Activation (Changes to IE ActiveX Update) — Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to "click to activate" before they could interact with the control.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Adobe: Online Photoshop coming this year — MONTEREY, Calif.—Adobe Systems has committed to shipping a beta version of its online image-editing tool, Photoshop Express, this year, and said it will be complete in 2008. — "By late this year, we anticipate having a beta version," …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple posts firmware v1.1.2 — goodbye jailbreak! — Looks like Apple just published firmware v1.1.2 for the iPhone; hit the download link to grab it yourself because iTunes hasn't yet gotten wise to the fact that it's out. Details to follow, but don't expect jailbreak …
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Epicenter, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Boy Genius Report, MacRumors, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and Digg
Xbox-Scene News:
New Xbox360 Error Code: 2 Red 2 Green Lights? — >> Logic-Sunrise.com posted a video of a new error code they found on a Falcon Xbox 360 console. They suggest it might be 'the new RRoD' for falcon boards, but it looks a bit unlikely MS would change their error codes as it would complicate support a lot.
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:New Xbox 360 ring of death spotted: red-red/green-green
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Nate Weiner / the Idea Shower:
Block Facebook Beacon — So here I am, burning some brain cells and taking some time to relax playing a game on Kongregate, when a little window pops up in the corner of my screen and says "Kongregate is sending this to your Facebook profile: Nate played Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 at Kongregate."
Chris Williams / The Register:
Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz — BPI claims losing is winning in P2P arms race — Exclusive The legal crackdown and publicity blitz aimed at people who share music, videos and software online is having an unintended consequence for the troubled record industry.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Radiohead: comScore totally inaccurate — A New Music Express piece on Radiohead brings with it a rather large knee to the goolies for comScore, which came out with some numbers on downloads of the band's "pay what you want" album In Rainbows (I wrote about comScore's results here).
Cris Castello / Google LatLong:
How's the weather? — A wise man once said, "I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong." When it comes to weather forecasts, this certainly rings true. You always remember that day when you planned a picnic because it was supposed to be sunny and it ended up raining.
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Webware.com, Googlified, Ogle Earth, Google Earth Blog, WebProNews, Search Engine Land and Mashable!
Riva Richmond / SmartMoney.com:
Allen & Co. Invests In Mobile Product-Search Startup — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Allen & Co. LLC, the secretive New York boutique investment bank, has made an investment of an undisclosed size in closely held mobile product-search company GPShopper LLC. — While the influential bank declined …
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HipMojo.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Blogcosm Challenges Technorati, Techmeme to Parse the Blogosphere — Blogcosm is a new company aiming to build a directory of the blogosphere. From the mundane to the esoteric, the company wants to provide users with a rich data set about any particular blog of interest or the vertical market it is in.
Louis Hau / Forbes:
Redstone: 'If Content Is King, Copyright Is Its Castle' — He may look his age when he's not speaking, but when Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS, starts talking about the shifting media landscape, you forget he was born when radio was a novelty.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
YouTube Releases Multi-file Uploader, Raises File Limits to 1 GB — YouTube just announced the availability for Windows users of a desktop uploader (install page here). Users will now be able to do bulk file uploads. The company also raised its file size limit from 100 MB to 1 GB.
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mathewingram.com/work
William McGeveran / Info/Law:
Facebook Inserting Users Into Ads — Dan Solove at Concurring Opinions has some quite sensible concerns about Facebook's new advertising program — specifically, that it may violate privacy law. I think he's right, and then some... In short, the new program allows corporations to set …
