5:40PM EST October 3. 2012 - NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has long declared that it's "free and always will be." And it still is — unless you want more friends to see what you have to say.
The social media giant is rolling out a feature in the U.S. that lets users pay to promote their posts to friends, just as advertisers do. Facebook has been testing the service in New Zealand, where it tries out
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Posted by ptoone (#1) 232 days ago (http://www.usatoday.com)
PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites
Posted by ptoone (#1) 235 days ago (https://torrentfreak.com)
Police have raided the Swedish hosting company PRQ today, possibly looking for servers connected to copyright infringement. PRQ was founded by Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij and is known to host or route many file-sharing sites. The target of the raid has not been confirmed by the authorities, but The Pirate Bay team informs TorrentFreak that they are no longer using P
Swedish police link Internet attacks to WikiLeaks founder Assange's case
Posted by ptoone (#1) 236 days ago (http://www.google.com)
STOCKHOLM — Internet attacks blocked access to several popular Swedish websites for part of Monday, local police said, linking the outage to the controversy surrounding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"Every time something happens in the Assange affair there are more attacks on the Internet in Sweden," a national police computer expert, Anders Ahlqvist, told AFP.
Read more: http://www.goo
"Every time something happens in the Assange affair there are more attacks on the Internet in Sweden," a national police computer expert, Anders Ahlqvist, told AFP.
Read more: http://www.goo
Julian Assange speaks out about living in a one-room embassy refuge
Posted by ptoone (#1) 236 days ago (http://www.dailymail.co.uk)
The court in exile of Julian Assange – cyber terrorist, or the world’s greatest freedom fighter, depending on your world view – is a curiously muted place. The acolytes who pledged to maintain a protective vigil outside the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he has been encamped since June, are long gone. So, too, is the 50-strong squad of officers who policed his first few hours within the red-brick mans
The video, first published by CrackBerry before being pulled from the site, showcases the much leaked “L series” smartphone, which will be the first handset RIM launches next year, along with an upcoming “N series” phone that is pictured for the first time. The device looks like many of RIM’s earlier QWERTY-equipped smartphones but the touchscreen above the physical keyboard is taller than the di
With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Rules The Web. So Where's The Money?
Posted by ptoone (#1) 239 days ago (http://www.forbes.com)
Matt Mullenweg was a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Houston when he clicked “publish” on a new blog post. His personal website, Photomatt.net, was growing, he explained, but he needed a better publishing tool to replace the neglected, open-source software called b2 that he preferred. “It would be nice to have the flexibility of Movable Type, the parsing of TextPattern, the hackability
It's 'Shocking' That Startups Are Ignoring A $500 Billion Market
Posted by ptoone (#1) 247 days ago (http://www.businessinsider.com)
enture capitalist Jim Goetz says he's floored that so few entrepreneurs are focusing on building products for businesses, given how successful those startups have been.
"It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise," the Sequoia Capital partner said earlier this week at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Read more: http://www.business
"It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise," the Sequoia Capital partner said earlier this week at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Read more: http://www.business
My life after Anonymous: 'I feel more fulfilled without the internet'
Posted by ptoone (#1) 256 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
One of the key figures of the '50 days of Lulz' is now on conditional bail – and barred from going online. Here, he describes how he feels serene, and recharged.
Read full story on the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/09/jake-davis-anonymous-charged-bail
Read full story on the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/09/jake-davis-anonymous-charged-bail
With GoDaddy Crash, Users Flock To Twitter
Posted by ptoone (#1) 257 days ago (http://www.webpronews.com)
GoDaddy has been having some trouble today, with users taking to Twitter to vent their frustration at sites all over the web being down. Some are indicating the issue is primarily one affecting the East Coast.
Read more: http://www.webpronews.com/godaddy-down-for-some-users-2012-09
Read more: http://www.webpronews.com/godaddy-down-for-some-users-2012-09
Tracking Down the UDID Breach Source
Posted by thexyz (#3) 257 days ago (http://intrepidusgroup.com)
I’d heard about the alleged FBI/Apple UDID leak shortly after arriving at work last Tuesday morning, and immediately downloaded and began reviewing the data. Less than an hour later, I’d surmised that comparing apps across multiple devices might help narrow down the source.
Read more: http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2012/09/tracking-udid-src/
Read more: http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2012/09/tracking-udid-src/
The Five best things coming in Ubuntu 12.10 Linux
Posted by ptoone (#1) 258 days ago (http://www.zdnet.com)
Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions around and the next version, 12.10 aka Quantal Quetzal, has just gone beta. Here's what looking to to be the new Ubuntu's best features so far.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/09/06/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-beta-1-released/
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/09/06/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-beta-1-released/
Cyber attacks grow increasingly "reckless", official says
Posted by ptoone (#1) 259 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
(Reuters) - Other nations are increasingly employing cyber attacks without "any sense of restraint," a top U.S. cybersecurity official said on Friday, citing "reckless" behaviors that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union would have dared at the height of Cold War tensions.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/07/us-usa-cybersecurity-nsa-idUSBRE8861CY20120907
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/07/us-usa-cybersecurity-nsa-idUSBRE8861CY20120907
Cybercrime Supersite ‘DarkMarket’ Was FBI Sting, Documents Confirm
Posted by ptoone (#1) 260 days ago (http://www.wired.com)
DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI cybercrime agent for the last two years, until its voluntary shutdown earlier this month, according to documents unearthed by a German radio network.
Reports from the German national police obtained by the Südwestrundfunk, Southwest Germany public radio,
Reports from the German national police obtained by the Südwestrundfunk, Southwest Germany public radio,
Hackers Dump Over A Million Apple ID's Found On FBI Laptop
Posted by thexyz (#3) 263 days ago (http://pastebin.com)
Antisec — a hacking group associated with Anonymous — have released over a million UDIDs found on a compromised FBI laptop.
MacRumours have also verified this: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/04/hackers-release-1-million-ios-device-udids-obtained-from-fbi-laptop/
The Mactivist also spread news: http://lifehacker.com/5940197/1-million-apple-device-ids-leaked-12-million-total-stolen
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MacRumours have also verified this: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/04/hackers-release-1-million-ios-device-udids-obtained-from-fbi-laptop/
The Mactivist also spread news: http://lifehacker.com/5940197/1-million-apple-device-ids-leaked-12-million-total-stolen
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