Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
MacBook Air hacked in security contest  —  A team of security researchers has won $10,000 for hacking a MacBook Air in two minutes using an undisclosed Safari vulnerability.  —  IDG News Service is camped out at CanSecWest in lovely Vancouver, Canada, and has chronicled the exploits …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme  —  Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry.  Case in point: Warner Music, fully aware that the days of charging …

Craig Newmark / cnewmark:
Multiple language support on craigslist  —  We tend to do stuff without much announcement, but I figured you might want to know that we implemented multiple language support for craigslist in November.  Just Spanish then, but last week we added more languages.  Check for yourself:

Steve Lohr / Bits:
No Recession at Red Hat  —  Red Hat, the Linux software company, gave a nice welcome present today to its new chief executive, James Whitehurst.  —  The company, which distributes Linux and other open-source software, reported that its quarterly sales grew 27 percent and earnings slightly surpassed analysts’ consensus estimate.