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Facebook changes made users share more private data: study
Facebook users began sharing more private data after the social network giant revamped its policies and interface, according to a study released Tuesday. The seven-year study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers said users had been moving toward greater privacy settings from 2005 to 2009, but that the trend reversed with…
Hackers attack top Czech news websites
Hackers attacked several top Czech news websites on Monday, overloading them with hundreds of thousands of requests per second to make them inaccessible, publishers said. “News servers have been facing a massive DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack since 8:30 am (0730 GMT),” iDNES.cz, the website of the top-selling Czech…
Swiss nurse under fire for posting Facebook photo of corpse
A nurse in Switzerland who posted pictures of herself on Facebook sitting next to the corpse of an old woman came under fire Friday from her profession, as prosecutors said they had launched an investigation. The Swiss national nurses’ federation said in a statement it was “shocked and saddened” by…
Facebook buys advertising firm from Microsoft
Facebook agreed Thursday to buy Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft as part of an effort to boost ad revenues at the massive social network. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Atlas is a leader in campaign management and measurement for marketers and agencies. We believe this acquisition will benefit…
Israel police probe apparent hate attack on Arab woman
Israeli police on Wednesday confirmed they were investigating an apparent hate crime against an Arab woman in Jerusalem and said a policeman had been dismissed after praising the attack on Facebook. The attack took place on Monday at one of the light rail stops in west Jerusalem, with an Israeli…
Online Misogynists Are Not Fringe Characters
Michael Nugent, the chair of Atheist Ireland, put up an interesting post comparing what happened when the same (really terrible) joke went up on two Facebook pages. In one case, the joke was accompanied by a no-doubt-non-consensual upskirt picture, and in the other, there was no picture. The illustrated one…
Facebook is dumping your old photos into cold storage
If you’re a longtime Facebook user, chances are pretty good that you uploaded some photos to the social network that you haven’t actually viewed in years. And you’re not alone: Facebook stores hundreds of billions of photos, with hundreds of millions uploaded every day. Facebook’s apparently……
Microsoft the latest to be hit by hackers
Microsoft joined Facebook and Apple on the list of US technology titans targeted in recent cyberattacks. “As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion,” Trustworthy Computing team general manager Matt Thomlinson said in a blog post. “During our investigation, we…
Man with high-powered rifles and ‘tank buster’ bullets arrested for posting liberal ‘hit list’
Police in Clarkstown, New York have confiscated a cache of high-powered weapons and body armor from a man who was arrested for posting death threats against against many Democratic politicians and every liberal supporter of President Barack Obama. According to WCBS, 49-year-old Larry Mulqueen was arraigned on Thursday on charges…
Conan spoof features Biden suggesting Facebook fans buy cocaine
In a slyly edited version of Vice President Joe Biden’s Facebook Q&A this week in which he advocated Americans buying shotguns, late night talk show host Conan O’Brien featured the fast-talking veep bragging about his corvette, getting drunk and buying heavy weaponry. “He started strong but, in my opinion, Biden…
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