AOL says it’s hiring hundreds of journalists, which they seem to do all the time, and then they’re never heard from again … hmm. In other news today, Pulse seems to have a pulse again, while the New York Times is on life support and doesn’t even know it, and we’re putting together a little hit list of doomed Twitter-related apps. Oh, and if you pirated the Hurt Locker movie, we totally know your IP address.

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