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Facebook Problems: Evan Priestley, Former Engineer, Exposes Social Network's 'Buggiest' Software

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Ramona Emerson - Jan. 10 (News Report) - Has Facebook developed the glitchiest software on the web? Yes, according to Evan Priestley, a former Facebook engineer. "Facebook is the buggiest software I use regularly, by a wide margin," Priestley recently wrote on question-and-answer site Quora.

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How news orgs are reaching millions through Facebook’s new apps

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Poynter Institute - By Jeff Sonderman - Nov. 30 (News Analysis) - It has been over two months since Facebook announced a new class of social news applications — ones that automatically share links to everything a person reads. Now we are learning more about the readership, strategies and effects of these “open graph” or “frictionless sharing” apps. Here are the six big lessons so far.

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First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Marshall Kirkpatrick - Aug. 24 (News Report) - The recently-departed co-founders of Twitter who are now working together again under the old Obvious Corp. name (Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman) announced their first official partnership today, with a stealth alpha app called Lift. It's described as simple app for achieving goals through positive reinforcement. It sounds like Twitter and from what I've seen (which is more than I've seen reported about elsewhere yet) it looks a lot like Twitter too - but with more structure. What's called Lift today was apparently called Mibbles just weeks ago and was described then as "a very simple tracking and...

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This Mystery Chemical Could Cause You To Miscarry

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Rebecca Huval - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - Did you print a piece of paper today? Or use a digital camera? If so, it could have exposed you to glymes, a clear liquid class of chemicals used as solvents in printer ink, carpet cleaners and other household products. For a decade, the EPA has known about studies that link glymes to health problems including miscarriages, developmental damage, and gene mutation. And yet only now is the agency beginning to regulate them. This July, the EPA announced that it plans to clamp down on glymes, which may join the ranks of the 360 chemicals subject to the EPA's "significant new use rule." This means that any time a company wants to use glymes, it would have to ask the EPA first. In contrast, the EPA plans to regulate BPA, the chemical once found in Nalgene bottles, by simply identifying it in a list of harmful chemicals.

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Google+: The Complete Guide

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Ben Parr - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - This guide has everything you'll ever want to know about Google+. Updated regularly. Google+: It’s the hot social network on the block. In just three weeks, Google’s competitor to Facebook and Twitter has amassed more than 10 million users, and its users are sharing more than 1 billion pieces of content daily. It’s become a hotbed for early adopters, tech luminaries, marketers and businesses around the world. Google+ isn’t the easiest thing to understand, though. It has a lot of features that can confuse beginners. Even advanced users can miss a lot of the little gems and nuances that define Google+. That’s why we decided to dig into every aspect of Google+, from Hangouts to Circles, from Google+ for businesses to what’s next for Google’s social network. The result is an extensive guide on all of Google+’s key features, as well as an introduction to the service and the important things you need to know about it. We’ve included commentary, videos, photos and more in our in-depth guide. In addition, we will update this guide regularly with the newest information on Google’s Facebook competitor. So, without further ado, here is Mashable‘s complete guide to Google+

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Apple drops secrecy, confirms iOS 5, iCloud on tap at WWDC 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Casey Johnston - May. 31 (News) - Apple announced today that it plans to introduce the next generation of its mobile platform, iOS 5, as well as a new cloud service called iCloud at the Worldwide Developers Conference next week on Monday, June 6. This is a highly unusual move for Apple, which normally tries to keep their center-ring announcements secret until the scheduled event.

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New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government’s Surveillance Spyware

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Electronic Frontier Foundation - By Jennifer Lynch - Apr. 30 (News Analysis) - The documents we received were sent to us in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request we filed back in 2007 after Wired reported on evidence that the FBI was able to use “secret spyware”

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How the iPhone knows where you are | Phones | Macworld

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Center for Public Integrity to launch daily investigative newspaper

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Business Journal - By Bryant Ruiz Switzky - Mar. 22 (News Report) - Wrongdoers beware: D.C.’s Center for Public Integrity is unfurling a daily digital investigative newspaper that will go live in about a month. The new product, likely to be called iWatch or Integrity Watch, will feature 10 to 20 original investigative stories per day about corruption, political ethics, corporate accountability, “truth watching,” and waste, fraud and abuse.

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Pentagon Commander: U.S. Unprepared To Face Cyber Attacks

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By (Not Listed) - Mar. 17 (News Report) - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authorities it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America or its allies, and a crisis would quickly strain the force, the Pentagon's cyber commander said Wednesday. Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the Defense Department's Cyber Command, told Congress that he would give the military a grade of "C" in its ability to protect Pentagon networks, but said things are much better than they were a few years ago and continue to improve.

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Military Launches Spy Operation Using Fake Online Identities

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post, Amy Lee - Mar. 17 (News Report) - The U.S. Military has purchased software designed to create and control false online personas in an attempt to use social media and other websites to...

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Plan Solicited by Chamber of Commerce Included Hacking of Activist Computers

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Lee Fang - Feb. 18 (Special Report) - lawyers representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the most powerful trade associations for large corporations like ExxonMobil and CitiGroup, had solicited a proposal from a set of military contractors to develop a surreptitious campaign to attack the Chamber’s political opponents, including ThinkProgress, the Change to Win labor coalition, SEIU, StopTheChamber.com, MoveOn.org, U.S. Chamber Watch and others. The lawyers from the Chamber’s longtime law firm Hunton and Williams had been compiling their own data set on some of these targets. However, the lawyers sought the military contractors for assistance.

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UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross’ Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

TechCrunch - Feb. 11 (News Report) - The number of companies in the Twitter ecosystem keeps contracting. But not for a necessarily bad reason, but because they keep getting purchased. And what's crazy is that it's largely one person who has been buying them up: Bill Gross. We've just learned this his company, now called UberMedia, has just acquired TweetDeck. We're hearing that the deal, which happened recently, was in the $25 - $30 million range. And this is clearly the largest deal they've done yet as TweetDeck is the largest Twitter client outside of Twitter's own properties.

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How one man tracked down Anonymous— and paid a heavy price

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - Feb. 10 (Investigative Report) - Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous... But had he?

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Computer Scientists, Election Integrity Advocates Question Feasibility of "Digital Democracy"

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Alissa Bohling - Oct. 13 (Special Report) - Despite the recent hack during public testing of DC's Internet voting pilot and the rash of other security problems that have plagued the short history of online voting systems, elections entrepreneurs, along with some state officials and voter advocates, continue to make headway as they push for the adoption of i-voting technology.read more

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Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slashdot - By Timothy - Sep. 27 (News) - A US court has sentenced a Venezuelan man to 10 years in prison for stealing and then reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service. Edwin Pena, 27, was convicted in February of masterminding a scheme to hack into more than 15 telecommunications companies and then reroute calls to their networks at no charge. He must also pay more than US$1 million in restitution, and will be deported once his sentence is served.

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Breaking: Web Not Corrupting Our Youth After All

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Sep. 15 (News Report) - The Washington Post reports today on a new study by Sandra Hofferth, director of the Maryland Population Research Center, which concludes that it's OK for kids to spend lots of time on their computers: In what researchers describe as one of the first long-term looks at the effects of media use during childhood, a study released Wednesday linked hours at the computer with achievement test scores and behavior and found little sign of harm for children ages 6 to 12 as they increased their screen time over a six-year period.

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How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Vadim Lavrusik - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place in the way we consume news. We have gone from consuming news through traditional media and news websites to having the news broadcast to us by our social network of friends. In fact, 75% of news consumed online is through shared news from social networking sites or e-mail. Social news is finding us. Readers who still actively seek out the news want, and almost expect, it to be personalized and customized to their tastes and interests. News organizations, social networks and technology companies are all attempting to respond with sites and tools that address this changing shift toward a personalized social news stream.

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Google Just Killed Net Neutrality

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gizmodo - By Brian Barrett - Aug. 05 (Breaking News) - In 2006, Google co-founder Sergey Brin traveled to DC, urging Congress to support net neutrality -- the principle that the internet shouldn't have a fast lane. Google was net neutrality's most powerful advocate. Four years later, they've become its executioner.

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Libraries and Librarians Are Endangered Species

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Carol Fitzgerald - Jun. 25 (Special Report) - In April my mother called to say a cost-cutting move threatened to close my hometown's local library. The town council of Cedar Grove, New Jersey needed to trim the budget by $600,000, and by eliminating library funding council members thought they saw an easy cut.

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Greenqloud, Iceland’s Clean Power Cloud Computing Co.

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

earth2tech.com - By Katie Fehrenbacher - May. 28 (News) - The idea is to rent space in data centers based in Iceland and sell cloud computing services to web companies and individuals all over the world that want to manage their carbon footprint and embrace clean power. The cloud computing services include virtual server hosting, data storage, scientific data processing and software as a service infrastructure.

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Technology Review: Hacking the Smart Grid

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MIT Technology Review - By Robert Lemos - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Components of the next-generation smart-energy grid could be hacked in order to change household power settings or to spoof communications with a utility's network, according to a study of three pilot implementations.

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Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - Jan. 08 (News) - The Nexus One is a sharp-looking smartphone, but, as nice as it is, it is the least significant thing that Google announced today. The real news is Google's online store, and what it means for the US wireless industry.

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Records not as vulnerable as group claims

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Oct. 22 (Special Report) - Could Big Brother -- or garden-variety snoopers -- soon get their hands on your medical data? The Senior Citizens League -- a group that boasts 1.2 million members and is affiliated with the Retired Enlisted Association -- recently sent out a mailing saying it was possible. According to a copy obtained by the Huffington Post, the group sent a four-page letter, along with a questionnaire and a cover letter signed by former Rep. David Funderburk, R-N.C., to seniors, expressing two related concerns about Democratic health care reform plans now being debated on Capitol Hill. One is that they could lead to the rationing of care. The other is that the government is assembling a "national government computer network" that will contain Americans' medical files.

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Raising a healthy gamer: seven tips for parents

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Ben Kuchera - Jul. 02 (Special Report) - Parenting is always a tough job, and video games are a tricky subject in today's families. Don't worry, we have you covered. Ars offers a no-BS guide to dealing with gaming and your children, and our advice is simple: you know your children better than anyone else.

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