dkd903 writes “A kind of war has been going on recently between Facebook and Google over a contact export issue. First, Google blocked Facebook access to the Gmail contacts API. To this, Facebook responded back with a new method to get Gmail contacts of a user (the download contacts option). And now Google has slapped […]
Month: November 2010
bonch writes “The National Legal and Policy Center has written to the House Oversight Committee to investigate alleged ties between Google and the Obama administration, specifically with regards to the closure of an FTC probe into Google’s Wi-Fi privacy breach, when the company admitted to having collected users’ unencrypted information over the course of three […]
Stoobalou writes “The world’s first ever ‘archaeological dig’ of the internet is set to begin this week in London’s über-trendy Shoreditch. The exhibition, entitled Digital Archaeology, kicks off today to mark the 20th anniversary of the first stirrings of the world wide web. According to its organisers, valuable evidence from the interweb’s early days is […]
Sex Drugs and Texting
statesman writes “The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a […]
An anonymous reader writes “Two huge, mysterious gamma ray-emitting bubbles have been discovered at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, US astronomers said… The structure spans more than half of the visible sky, from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus, and it may be millions of years old.”
alphadogg writes “Cybercrooks continue to abuse the Web, boosting their ability to produce what’s called search engine optimization poisoning so that individuals making use of search engines such as Google’s increasingly are ending up with choices that are dangerous malware-laden URL links. Some 22.4% of Google searches done since June produced malicious URLs, typically leading […]
Nevercookie Eats Evercookies
wiredmikey writes “Anonymizer, Inc. has developed Anonymizer Nevercookie, a free Firefox plugin that protects against the Evercookie, a javascript API built and made available by Samy Kamkar (same guy who brought you the Samy Worm and XSS Hacking to Determine Physical Location) who set out to prove that the more you store and the more […]