Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Releases Dev Version Of Chrome For Mac And Linux.  But It Doesn’t Want You To Use It.  —  Here’s some bittersweet news for those of you eagerly awaiting Google’s Chrome browser for Mac or Linux: tonight Google is publicly releasing developer versions of the Chrome browser for both […]

Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Adobe Strives to Crack the Smart-Phone Market  —  Shifting Strategies, Opposition From Apple Have Slowed Effort to Push Flash Video Software Beyond Computers  —  Adobe Systems Inc., which makes the Flash software widely used on computers to play Internet videos, is trying to crack a new market: smart phones.

Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Returning to Apple After Nearly ‘Starving to Death,’ Says WSJ  —  Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple on schedule at the end of June, “people familiar with Apple” tell the Wall Street Journal.  He might also end up at the company’s developer’s conference next week, the paper […]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Report: Steve Jobs “was one real sick guy”  —  Friday’s Wall Street Journal carries a report on the state of Steve Jobs’ health that makes his condition last January — before he went on a six month medical leave — sound more desperate than Apple (AAPL) let on at the […]

Michael Jones / TUAW:
Rumor: New iPhone to be called “iPhone Video?”  —  Further fueling the iPhone fire (try saying that one five times fast), TUAW has received an anonymous tip stating that AT&T’s support website will be updated with “iPhone Video” as one of the model choices when choosing Apple as the phone manufacturer.

Jon Lech / nanocr.eu:
Palm Pre USB hack confirmed  —  A little birdie provided me with the following:  —  As I speculated in my previous blog post on Palm Pre Sync and now confirmed by the image above, when the Pre is in “Media Sync” mode it identifies itself as an Apple iPod.  However, it’s […]

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Could social gaming run afoul of gambling laws?  —  A variety of social network gaming applications are making lots of money from virtual goods.  But could these services soon find themselves in trouble for allowing gambling — and get slapped with large fines or other punishment?

Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:
Tony La Russa Is Not Laughing At Your Satire  —  Dugout genius Tony La Russa is suing Twitter, claiming he “suffered significant emotional distress” and “damage to his reputation” because of a fake La Russa account.  Sheesh, can’t the man take a few jokes about dead pitchers and drunk driving?

Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm  —  In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive global spam operations.

Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider, 3FN Service Specializes in Hosting Spam-Spewing Botnets, Phishing Web sites, Child Pornography, and Other Illegal, Malicious Web Content  —  A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates …