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Submission + - Google bid Pi for patents! (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Google mystified other participants in an auction for patents last week by their choice of bids. They weren't the round regular numbers that are normally expected. Google lost the auction — but was that a deliberate ploy?
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Submission + - Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Richer Than Google Founders (gizmocrazed.com) 2

Submitted by
Mightee
Mightee writes: "Mark Zuckerberg , founder of the social media giant Facebook, has become richer than founders of Search Engine giant Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

His total worth now is estimated at $18 billion — which at the start of 2011 was at $13.5 billion. ;)

Zuckerberg overtakes Page and Brin in the rich-list after GSV Capital Corp bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 each, earlier this week."

Submission + - Wikileaks to sue Visa/Mastercard (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After 6 months of financial blockade by Visa and Mastercard, during which they claim to have lost over $15,000,000 in donations, Wikileaks and Datacell are filing a complaint against the two financial giants, with plans to litigate should the block not be lifted. Wikileaks stated, "On June 9th a the law firms Bender von Haller Dragested in Denmark and Reykjavik Law Firm in Iceland acting on behalf of DataCell and WikiLeaks told the companies that if the blockade is not removed they will be litigated in Denmark and a request for prosecution will be filed with the EU Commission." It has also been repeatedly noted that both financial companies still allow financial transactions by the Ku Klux Klan.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfp1qh

Submission + - LulzSec phone-bombs FBI, HBGary (dustytech.net)

Submitted by Revotron
Revotron writes: Anonymous hacker group LulzSec has begun to harness the power of the crowd in their latest griefing attempts. After a day of numerous DDoS attacks on a handful of famous MMOs, LulzSec's phone lines lit up with an estimated 20 calls per second. Using a fairly simple phone redirect, they sent all of their incoming calls to various offices, among them the FBI office in Detroit, Blizzard Customer Support, online retailer Magnets.com, and most recently, the corporate offices of HBGary.

Submission + - EVE Online taken down by LulzSec (twitter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: LulzSec claims via twitter to have wiped out EVE Online login servers and the EVE Online website.

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