Dan Goodin / The Register:
Department of Homeland Security website hacked!  —  The sophisticated mass infection that’s injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and has even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security.  —  While so-called SQL injections are nothing new …

Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
New in Google Docs: Insert Videos, Edit CSS  —  There are so many updates at Google Docs, that you’ll need many hours to explore them and start to use them.  —  You can now access your browser’s contextual menu by pressing Shift while right-clicking.  This might be useful […]

Steve Lohr / Bits:
Microsoft’s Vista Problem  —  Microsoft keeps insisting that Windows Vista is a winner, but the questions keep mounting — and Thursday’s quarterly report only added to the doubts.  —  Revenue from the company’s so-called client division — PC operating systems mainly — came in at a bit under $4.03 billion.

Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
A Hostile Bid Could Be Over Fast  —  Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell promised Thursday that the software giant will provide an update on its bid for struggling portal Yahoo! next week.  —  Translation: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer …

Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Fake Steve Jobs lights up Web 2.0 Expo  —  SAN FRANCISCO—If there’s one person in the world of Web 2.0 technology—or tech in general—who hasn’t yet been skewered by the infamous blogger Fake Steve Jobs, get ready: He’s coming for you.  —  In a frenetic keynote address Friday morning … […]

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?  —  As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips.

Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Nvidia declares the CPU dead  —  Gutterwatch Fare thee well, Intella, for we did love thee  —  A MISSIVE from a guy called Roy Taylor dropped into our paws, and we were intrigued by its contents.  —  Nvidian boy Roy basically declares that the CPU is dead, and Nvidia’s chips do […]

Ryan Block / Engadget:
The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker  —  So we’ve got it on authority that the second-gen iPhone is already well into testing, and numerous units are floating around in super secret pockets.  A trusted source got a chance to check one out, here’s what we’ve heard.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Apple to the Core  —  Apple this week bought a fabless chip company called PA Semiconductor and pundits far and wide are trying to explain the deal with broadly varying ideas, some of which are close but none seem to really understand what the deal is about.  In […]

Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Raising Money: How Much Is It Worth?  —  Twitter isn’t just dealing with its well-documented tech problems (both with the service and its personnel).  It’s raising a Series C round.  So what’s the valuation?  —  Last summer, Twitter raised about $5 million at a $20 million valuation.