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10:40 AM ET, December 13, 2010

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Gawker hackers release file with FTP, author & reader usernames/passwords  —  Updates at foot of post.  —  Gawker has released Gawker Media is under siege at the moment, fighting off attacks from a group of attackers that have been able to compromise the entire database of Gawker Media's web properties.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Exclusive: ‘Gnosis’ Explains The Method And Reasoning Behind Gawker Media Hack  —  Over the last 24 hours Gawker Media's network of sites have been under attack from a group who have identified themselves “Gnosis,” a seemingly mysterious collective of hackers who has been falsely considered part …
Gawker:
Commenting Accounts Compromised — Change Your Passwords
Hari Sreenivasan / Online NewsHour:
Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies
Discussion: The Register and Runnin' Scared
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Motorola's 10-inch Honeycomb tablet meets Mr. Blurrycam, shows off Verizon logo  —  By now you're probably familiar with this slate, seeing as how Google's Andy Rubin recently unveiled it on stage, but we're willing to bet you've never seen the top edge — you know, the part now bearing …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Rivals Say Google Plays Favorites  —  Search Giant Displays Its Own Health, Shopping, Local Content Ahead of Links to Competing Sites  —  Google Inc. increasingly is promoting some of its own content over that of rival websites when users perform an online search, prompting competing sites to cry foul.
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Carter Maslan / Google Public Policy Blog:
Local search: It's all about the best answers for users
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Jodiolson / Twitter Blog:
Hindsight2010: Top Trends on Twitter  —  From earthquakes and politics to popstars and hashtags, Twitter Trends are a window into what the world is talking about.  In this edition of #Hindsight2010, we offer our list of the biggest Trends of the year.  —  An astounding 25 billion Tweets were sent in 2010.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google Latitude app for iPhone finally arrives  —  Nearly two years after Google announced its Latitude for tracking friends' locations, the service is available as an application for iOS.  Google had promised the Latitude app would arrive on iPhones “very soon” when the service debuted in February 2009.
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Chris Lambert / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the Google Latitude app for iPhone
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star  —  For the past year, executives at big media companies have watched Netflix with growing resentment — for its success in delivering movies and television shows via the Internet, for its stock price nearly quadrupling, for its chief executive …
Discussion: SAI, GMSV and Engadget
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Verizon Strikes Out in Smartphones  —  The Wall Street Journal's Digital Network leaked what appears to be Verizon's device sales.  To mobile analysts this is as big as a Wikileaks release of diplomatic chitchat is to...diplomats.  Bigger, actually.  —  Disclaimer
Mia Quagliarello / YouTube Blog:
Double rainbows, annoying oranges and bed intruders: the year on YouTube  —  It's time to rewind back through the YouTube videos that people in the U.S. and around the world were watching and searching for in 2010.  These lists of most-watched videos reflect the people …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
On The Road With Cr-48: The Chrome Notebook Is Both Shiny And Tarnished  —  Every piece of technology has both good and bad attributes.  Nothing is perfect.  Not even the iPhone.  (Well, at least not until that AT&T exclusivity ends.)  But until three days ago, I had never used a product …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:   Chrome OS and IT platform longevity
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:   Who really needs a Chrome OS laptop?
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Web Focus Helps Revitalize the Atlantic  —  WASHINGTON — How did a 153-year-old magazine — one that first published the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and gave voice to the abolitionist and transcendentalist movements — reinvent itself for the 21st century?
Reuters:
Amazon websites outage was due to hardware failure  —  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's websites in Europe suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware failure in its European data center network.  —  “The brief interruption …
Wall Street Journal:
New Verizon Wireless CEO Dashes Into 4G Service  —  Verizon Wireless's new chief executive, Daniel Mead, is pulling right into the fast lane.  —  Two months after he took the job Oct. 1, Verizon plunked down its biggest bet in years by launching an expensive new fourth-generation wireless broadband network.
Discussion: DailyTech
 
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Nancy Luna / Orange County Register:
McDonald's hacked, customer data stolen, chain says
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
YouTube is letting users decide on terrorism-related videos
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
What Privacy Problem?  Web Ad Targeter Media6Degrees Raises $17 Million
Discussion: paidContent and AdExchanger.com
Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:
Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic
Discussion: Ars Technica, A VC and Post Tech
Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Crams for Classes
Sapitz / The LinkedIn Blog:
Bigger, better, and more reliable.  LinkedIn's new data center in Los Angeles!
Discussion: CenterNetworks and The Next Web
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility
Dmitry / ZURBlog:
Podcast of Julie Zhuo's talk on How Facebook Uses Data
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Marketers Test Ads in E-Books
Discussion: TeleRead
Rady Ananda / Voices:
WikiRebels: Swedish docufilm on WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance
Discussion: Vendorprisey, CNN, Examiner and The Next Web
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
MPAA, RIAA: Lawsuits won't protect content
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