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Ongoing List of Sites Down Due to Hurricane Sandy

With Hurricane Sandy having battered the East Coast and Eastern Seaboard, and she has left several websites, such as gawker, gizmodo, jezebel, jalopnik and kotaku, offline as servers are flooded with sea water, and other related problems combine to knock Internet service and sites offline.

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Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Gawker and other Gawker Media User Accounts Compromised in Security Breach

If you have ever had an account – even just to leave comments to articles and posts – on Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Kotaku, Deadspin, Fleshbot or Jalopnik, then you are in for a nasty surprise. Odds are good that your account has been compromised, and your user name and password posted on the Internet, as the result of security breach of Gawker Media’s servers that happened over the weekend. Gawker media does get points for alerting all of their users as soon as they discovered the breach (about 10 minutes ago as of the time of this posting on 6:20 p.m. PST on Monday, December 13th, 2010).

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The Story of the Apple iPhone 4G Prototype Lost, Found, and Demanded Returned

By now everyone knows the story: Last week a person who was supposedly Apple engineer Gray Powell supposedly lost what was supposedly an iPhone 4G prototype, in a bar in Redwood City, California (a mere stone’s throw from Apple’s Cupertino headquarters). Then a third-party supposedly found the alleged iPhone 4G test model, and then somehow it got to Gizmodo, where they tested it, disassembled it, pronounced it the real deal, and blogged about it, complete with pictures. Now Apple has sent a demand letter, demanding the unit back. This proves that the story, and the phone, are real. Or does it?