News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage

Notable headlines:

Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught

• Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
• ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack
• Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows
• News.com: Defcon ends with researchers muzzled, viruses written

Ed Bott: Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly

• Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out

Ryan Naraine: Google releases open-source crypto toolkit

• Code execution hole in Webex meeting manager

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: MobileMe: Still Not Up (To Anyone's Standard)

John Morris: HP announces three new EliteBooks

• Crave: Lenovo set to announce ThinkPad W700

Jennifer Leggio: Lijit secures $7.1 million series C roundChristopher Dawson: Did the big boys really kill OLPC? Times of London: Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop

News.com: AMD to Nvidia: Two chips are better than one

Richard Koman:Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web

• Christopher Dawson: Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)

Mary Jo Foley: Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?

Heather Clancy: Cree LED light components getting littler

Garett Rogers: Gmail locks out users for an hour

• Michael Krigsman: Gmail is down
• Gmail blog: We feel your pain, and we're sorry
• Ryan Stewart: Outage of critical systems shows a hybrid web-desktop approach is still the best

Deb Perelman: Compete away, whether you live in California or not

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The Olympics Watch: Not That Much

• Ryan Stewart: Numbers on the NBC's Silverlight Olympic Coverage
• Jason Perlow: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
• Gizmodo: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

TechRepublic: 10 ways to help your users enhance their online credibility

• Open source tools becoming commercial products? This can be a good thing.

John Morris: Via stops making chipsets for Intel, AMD systems

• Intel's Nehalem gets a new name

Larry Dignan: Will it be a Kindle Christmas? Amazon: Still trailing eBay in third party sales but...

• Mozilla's mobile browser nears alpha
• JDA Software scoops up i2 for $346 million

Steve O'Hear: BlueWhaleMail: Facebook messages "pushed" to your cellphone

Dana Gardner: Data services provide catalyst for SOA, set stage for cloud-based data models

Boy Genius Report: Motorola Alexander's non-QWERTY counterpart, Atila

Roland Piquepaille: Solar nanoantenna energy collectors

Dana Blankenhorn: Open source offers a seamless transition to work

Sam Diaz: Netscape keeps users; Vista struggles to grab new ones

Paul Murphy: When equivalence is the wrong question

Richard Koman: Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy laws

• Chinese censorship: to protect 'healthy growth of our youth'

Matthew Miller: Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile

• Jason O'Grady: Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded
• Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch
• Olympic medal count iPhone app

Dennis Howlett: An iGeneration view of TLAs

• Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us
• Zack Whittaker: Unique corporate service relies on good human nature

Dana Blankenhorn: Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?

• Open Health Tools gets its first big test
• The kids are all right with Linux

Forbes: Servers: Why Thrifty Isn't NiftyMatthew Miller: Rumored Palm Centro2 is simply a marketing student's mock-up

Best Buy goes kiosk

TechCrunch: DEMO v. TechCrunch50 Takes A Nasty Turn With Charges Of Plagiarism

Michael Krigsman: Heart pacemakers vulnerable to attack

Cable: Natural born monopoly?

Video: Will Wi-Fi fly with travelers?