Computer News
Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant cult...
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 09:16 AMcnn.com — Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. See the complete story here.
Daily Mail Hacked by TeaMp0isoN
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 09:13 AMitproportal.com — British sensationalist newspaper the Daily Mail has been hit by hackers in support of the online movement Opcensorthis. See the complete story here.
Microsoft kills the Start button in latest Windows 8 build
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 09:12 AMslashgear.com — Microsoft hasn’t been shy about the radical direction it’s taking with the user interface design on Windows 8, but it looks like their latest change may be a big one. PCBeta reports that the latest build of Microsoft’s next operating system does away with the ubiquitous “Start” button, which has graced Windows for almost twenty years. The functionality of the Start button remains, but as a limited “hotspot” in the lower-left corner by default, not unlike the Aero Peek feature in Windows 7. Even that functionality is only present in the classic or desktop mode, which drops the shiny new Metro tile interface for a more traditional windowed UI. See the complete story here.
How Computer Geeks Aim to Put a Stop to Fake Online Reviews
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 09:07 AMmoneyland.time.com — A collection of five-star ratings can do amazing things for a business. It’s not all that surprising, then, that hotels, restaurants, local services, product manufacturers, and even doctors and dentists are known to plant glowing reviews, pay for perfect ratings, and otherwise manipulate the system. What can be done to stop them? See the complete story here.
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where’s Our Cut?'
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:55 AMbits.blogs.nytimes.com — By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, owes me about $50. Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the postapocalyptic movie “The Day After Tomorrow”: bleak, desolate and really quite sad. (Or MySpace, if that is easier to imagine.) Facebook surely would never be valued at anything close to $100 billion, which it very well could be in its coming initial public offering. See the complete story here.
INTERPOL Set To Open Global Cybercrime Center In 2014
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:52 AMdarkreading.com — Director of cybersecurity at INTERPOL working on secure online presence for police worldwide to work together on cybercrime cases. See the complete story here.
Record 10,000 tweets per second at Super Bowl
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:50 AMphysorg.com — Twitter said users were firing off a record 10,000 tweets per second in the final three minutes of the Super Bowl. See the complete story here.
Facebook, Twitter Are Harder to Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:49 AMmedicaldaily.com — Checking a Twitter, Facebook or email account for updates may be more tempting than alcohol and cigarettes, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people regulate their daily desires. See the complete story here.
Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:47 AMtechworld.com.au — Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection. See the complete story here.
Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:46 AMarstechnica.com — Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site," but said it's currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that users thought they "deleted" from the social network months or even years ago remain accessible via direct link. See the complete story here.
Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:43 AMbbc.co.uk — Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. See the complete story here.
FBI probes Anonymous intercept of US-UK hacking call
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:42 AMbbc.co.uk — The FBI is investigating how activists linked to the Anonymous network managed to intercept a conference call between British and US police in which they discussed legal action against hackers. See the complete story here.
Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:42 AMbbc.co.uk — A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman's face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. See the complete story here.
U.S. Charges Latvian Hacker in $2 Million Stock Scam
Submitted Monday, January 30, 2012 @ 01:57 PMpcworld.com — A Latvian man has been charged by the U.S. financial regulator for an alleged online stock fraud that cost investors more than $2million (1.3 million), and may have enabled him to profit over half a million pounds. See the complete story here.
Self-Guided Bullet Spots, Steers and Nails Its Target
Submitted Monday, January 30, 2012 @ 01:37 PMwired.com — The U.S. military has been after self-guided bullets for years. Now, government researchers have finally made it happen: a bullet that can navigate itself a full mile before successfully nailing its target. See the complete story here.
Facebook 'to go public with $10bn share offering'
Submitted Monday, January 30, 2012 @ 01:35 PMbbc.co.uk — Facebook will begin the process of becoming a publicly-listed company this week, valuing the social networking site at between $75bn (48bn) and $100bn, reports suggest. See the complete story here.
Technology firms create DMarc to fight phishing
Submitted Monday, January 30, 2012 @ 01:33 PMbbc.co.uk — A crackdown on "phishing" scams has been announced by 15 of the top technology companies. See the complete story here.
MegaUpload User Data Soon to be Destroyed
Submitted Monday, January 30, 2012 @ 01:32 PMtorrentfreak.com — MegaUpload has received a letter from the US Attorney informing the company that data uploaded by its users may be destroyed before the end of the week. The looming wipe-out is the result of MegaUpload’s lack of funds to pay for the servers. Behind the scenes, MegaUpload is hoping to convince the US Government that it’s in the best interest of everyone involved to allow users to access their data, at least temporarily. See the complete story here.
FBI wants to scrape Twitter worldwide
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:30 AMtgdaily.com — The FBI is considering continuously monitoring all social media sites on a global basis, and is looking for help. It's asking contractors for proposals for a system that could scan the networks, globally and in real time, to identify potential threats. The deadline for responses is 10 February. See the complete story here.
Apple's Tim Cook Responds to Reports of Worker Abuse
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:29 AMpcmag.com — Despite a phenomenal earnings report this week, Apple has taken a few rather brutal hits in the media related to the treatment of workers who assemble the iPhone and the iPad. In response, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly sent out a long letter to his staff refuting claims that Apple might be insensitive to worker mistreatment at its factories. See the complete story here.
Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:27 AMzdnet.com — Microsoft is moving steadily ahead with its plan to enable Linux to run on its Windows Azure cloud platform. See the complete story here.
Intel buys RealNetworks' patents and video coding tech
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:27 AMbbc.co.uk — Intel has agreed to buy about 190 patents from RealNetworks as part of a deal worth $120m (76m). See the complete story here.
Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:26 AMbbc.co.uk — The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group. See the complete story here.
Symantec advises disabling pcAnywhere software
Submitted Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 07:26 AMbbc.co.uk — Security firm Symantec has warned customers to stop using its pcAnywhere software. The company confirmed that "old" source code stolen by a hacking group had exposed vulnerabilities in the remote access program. See the complete story here.
