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Syrian blogger disappeared. Hussein Ghrer, a prominent Syrian blogger headquartered in Damascus, disappeared after leaving his house on October 24. Syria has imprisoned, and possibly killed, many journalists, activists and bloggers during the civil strife in Syria.

In case I haven't made this case lately: These people are you, nerds.

The Renesys blog reports "significant but sporadic Internet outages in the Palestinian Territories today. As many as half of the routed networks of the Palestinian Territories were unreachable (withdrawn from the global routing table)."

Both the Washington Post and the BBC have reported a possible hack on the Palestinian communications sector.

Ask dear Siri for a beer and she'll probably just show you some local beer options for you to go and buy a pint for yourself. The folks at RedPepper have a different scenario in mind though, with their automated Siri hack. All of this and more in today's Daily Wrap.

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A curious hacker named Matt Mastracci was diving into the Google Plus code yesterday, trying to turn on access to the new Circle-sharing feature, when he uncovered several new features apparently in the works. One, referred to in the source as "Google Experts," appears to be a Quora-like question and answer feature with the same posting, commenting and sharing features as regular Plus posts.

Mastracci also uncovered Google Voice integration, which will not require phone numbers; new photo browsing options including photos from Messenger; new, clearly labeled privacy presets and a feature like Facebook's wall, letting users post on each other's profile without showing up in others' streams.

Here's an interesting and under-reported story: a developer by the name of Robert Norris Hills recently created a bot that automatically adds users to Circles on Google Plus. The bot runs until it reaches the friend limit of 5,000, then removes the Circle it created and starts again, keeping those who added it back.

Why would such a bot be a problem on Google's new social network? Because, like similar "auto-follow" behavior employed by Twitter spammers in the past, many users will return follow (or in this case, return "encircle") those who follow them. And that can be used to a spammer's advantage.

There is some good news to report, however: Google throttled the bot within days of it going live. But according to Hills, that may not be enough.

The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook has leaked out, allowing curious gadget enthusiasts an early hands-on with the (still underdeveloped) software. For those unaware, the Android App Player is the software which will allow the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to run Android applications, at least those apps that developers have specifically ported over to the PlayBook.

RIM, having become aware of the leak yesterday, warned users to "refrain from downloading and installing this software since it is outdated and non-functional in many respects." RIM's right, of course - the software is broken and buggy. But refrain from installing? That's no fun! Especially since some folks have already figured out how to get Android apps up and running on the PlayBook, including email.

In Apple's next mobile operating system iOS 5, there are now integrated widgets for core apps like stocks and weather available in the operating system's new Notifications Center. This Android-like drop-down list of updates, accessible by swiping down from the top of the screen, alerts you to things like new emails, missed calls, voicemails and other updates from your installed apps.

But developers hoping to include their own widget-like notifications in the center were disappointed to find out that their only option was for text-based updates. However, thanks to a hack from developer Will Homer, there is now a way for jailbroken phones to run third-party widgets within the Notifications Center. Some of the first examples of these widgets are already out, and are ready for testing.

Automattic, the company that owns the WordPress.com blogging platform that powers more than 18 million blogs, announced this morning that its servers had been broken into and source code, among other things, could have been exposed.

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg writes "Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed."

Users over on the XDA-Developers forum have managed to get Google Music sync working on their rooted Android phones, even though the service has not officially launched. This was accomplished by removing the stock music app that came with their Android phone and installing a different version instead - the one found in Honeycomb (Android 3.0), the tablet-optimized implementation of the Android mobile operating system.

After installation, the sync process began and, according to the first user to notice this phenomenon, the phone was now syncing music, too. His collection of music synced overnight, he said. By morning, an option to "Stream Music" became available from within the music player application.

Last year, we examined the many reasons why people jailbreak (that is, hack) their iPhones, with two articles detailing some of the best apps out there for jailbreakers. In August, we shared a list of several top apps, including the ever-useful Wi-Fi hotspot app MyWi, hacks that let you use FaceTime over 3G, tools for unlocking a phone and other tweaks and customizations. In October, we provided a list of 30 more reasons to jailbreak, which detailed new homescreen customizations and other applications.

But the jailbreaking community is always innovating, and there are new things released every day. Let's look at some of the latest additions.