Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Russian investor buys more Facebook shares - sources  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies has begun buying more shares in Facebook, seeking to expand its stake in the world’s No. 1 social networking company, two sources told Reuters.

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple resellers advised of 2-3 week delay on Mac mini orders  —  As reports of a forthcoming hardware refreshes continue to mount, Apple has braced its certified resellers for unusually long shipping times of two to three weeks for both models of its minute Mac mini desktop systems.

Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Facebook shuts down malicious fake profiles  —  Facebook on Thursday fended off an attack in which multiple identical profiles were created to spread malware.  —  Antivirus provider AVG Technologies said users of its LinkScanner service detected numerous profiles that were identical except …

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype  —  I just got my Google Wave invite.  No, I’m already out, so I can’t send one to you, sorry.  —  But this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and […]

Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pixi launching on October 20th?  —  We just got word that Palm’s second webOS device, the Pixi, is set to launch on October 20th.  This includes Sprint corporate stores as well as Best Buy locations presumably.  —  This intel is from new source but it sounds right.

Technology Review:
Wireless Network Modded to See Through Walls  —  The way signal strength varies in a wireless network can reveal what’s going on behind closed doors.  —  It’s every schoolboy’s dream: an easy way of looking through walls to spy on neighbours, monitor siblings and keep tabs on the sweet jar.

David Jackson / Associated Press:
Secret Service IDs kid for Facebook ‘assassination poll’ — no charges  —  The Secret Service announced today that a juvenile was behind the Facebook posting that asked whether President Obama should be assassinated, calling it a prank that would not lead to prosecution.

Avg WebLab / AVG Blogs:
Automated Facebook Attack underway  —  Today our LinkScanner users started detecting rogue spyware attacks that seemed to be originating from Facebook.  The first profile that we looked at looked like this …  (click image to enlarge)  —  And then the next one that we looked at looked like this …

David Faber / CNBC:
GE Is in Talks to Spin Off NBC, Give Comcast 51% of New Unit  —  General Electric [GE Loading…  () ] and Comcast [CMCSA Loading…  () ] are in talks about a deal in which GE would spin off its NBC […]

The Official Google Blog:
Refine your search results with new Search Options  —  In May, we launched Search Options, a side panel that lets you filter, refine and generate different views of your search results.  We’ve received lots of positive feedback, and we’re seeing more and more people using Search Options every day.