Around the Web 4.21.09: Pentagon hacked, Flash for TVs and new Google functions

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Foreign Cyber-attacks in the U.S. are on the rise -- or at least the Pentagon’s detection of them. Credit: randomduck via Flickr

-- Google has two new creations: a similar-images finder and a time-line version of Google News. BBC

-- Adobe is developing a new version of Flash in HD that would work on Internet-capable TVs -- without a browser. Comcast, Disney and Netflix have already signed on to support it. ArsTechnica

-- Using Facebook Connect to harvest users’ information, Facebook is rumored to have plans for an ad network. Silicon Alley Insider

-- Spies have hacked the Pentagon’s Joint Strike Program, the Defense Department’s most expensive weapons program in history. Now, Web wars are a serious threat. WSJ

-- A law in South Korea would force Google to hand over personal information about YouTube uploaders to the government. Rather than comply, Google shut off uploads and comments on the YouTube Korea site. paidContent

-- A study shows that people who download music illegally buy 10 times as much legal music than people who don’t. ArsTechnica

-- The New York Times reported a 28.4% drop in ad sales and a 6.1% drop in Internet ad sales. In this economy, the Web is certainly not filling the void left by print advertising. Silicon Alley Insider

-- Like the new iPod Shuffle, iPhone 3.0 is rumored to be rich with voice control and synthesis technologies. ArsTechnica

-- Chris Lesinski