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Teenager From Essex Commuter Town Arrested For Hacking CIA, NHS and Sony
We know there’s not a lot to do in Essex but – nineteen year old Ryan Clarey surpassed himself in making his own fun – he’s just been taken in for questioning by the police for hacks on Sony, the CIA and the NHS. That hack on Sony being the biggest theft of personal data so far in internet history.
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Posted: 21st, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
The Internet Gets Ready For A Multiplayer Roleplay Game Based On Harry Potter
THE magic of the Harry Potter franchise will meet the magic of online role play in a website that promises “electronic bulletin boards” and “real time interaction with other computer users”. We certainly can’t wait till the July 23rd release date! JK Rowling’s unveiling of pottermore.com has got all the web in a frenzy.
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Posted: 20th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
As 6million Facebook Users Leave: The Social Network Is Probably Over
Imagine a world without status updates from your friends, pictures of your cousin’s breakfast and the opportunity to give your personal data to multinational companies. News that Facebook just lost 6 million users in the US could make it come sooner than you think.
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Posted: 20th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (3)
Obama Will Do His Own Tweets – Party Warns Him Not To Twitpic His Erections
NOW that he needs the votes, Barack Obama is promising to tweet more – himself. After a long period where even the underlings hired to tweet for his official account seemed to get bored by their own copied-and-pasted press releases, Obama is back on the social media warpath and is going to tell us some stuff, on Twitter.
While his speeches were widely admired, the Obama tweets – and Facebook updates – have been much less than inspiring. In fact, they’ve been really dull. Will Obama himself really manage to liven them up?
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Posted: 19th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
AOL Gives AOL Prizes At 15th Webby Awards: Photos
THE Webby awards bestow prizes on the best virals and brands on the Internet. They will place what you like into a hierarchy that page views alone cannot satisfy. The freedoms of the internet is sponsored by the likes of AOL, Microsoft and Google.
The best writing prize was won by that upstart breakthrough act The New Yorker. It beat the ruby-cheeked likes of the New York Times, The Economist and Wired. The best blog business was won by… AOL and the Huffington Post, owned by… AOL.The best consumer electronics blog was won by Engadget – owned by… AOL. Google has the best corporate communication blog.
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Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Facebook Decides Lesbians Are Offensive And Deletes Them: Justin Bieber’s Women Erased
AFTER taking out Kate Middleton, pictures of women breastfeeding and a Texan insolvency lawyer with the misfortune to be called Mark Zuckerberg – the latest victims of Facebook’s new purge are lesbians. Specifically, lesbians who look like Justin Bieber.
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Posted: 13th, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
My Social Tattoo: Facebook Addict Has 152 Friends Faces Tattooed On Body (Video)
IN this video called My Social Tattoo, a Facebook addict has the thumbnail faces of 152 Facebook Friends tattooed onto his arm.
Of course, he doesn’t know that 151 of them are just his mum trying to keep in touch. She got the photos from his old game of Guess Who? The other one is Gary Glitter, maybe…
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Posted: 7th, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
Hackers Attack Sony Again – This Time Just For Lulz
HACKING Sony databases is turning into some kind of after-school activity. Just weeks after they lost millions of credit card details (2.2m at current count) – Sony have been hit by another hack- this time from a group known as LulzSec.
Claiming to be annoyed by the Sony’s poor data protection, they swiped the passwords of 1 million users of the Sony Pictures film-rental service in the US.
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Posted: 4th, June 2011 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Facebook Delete Unborn Baby
AMERICA is the last place you’d expect this to happen, what with all those groups banging on about The Rights Of The Unborn Child. But, it did, and Mark Zuckerberg is to blame.
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Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
When Muthanna Aldebashi Met Joshua Kafman’s Computer: The Stolen Macbook Mystery
SO. Who is the guy who has Joshua Kaufman’s stolen Macbook – the one that went missing from his Oakland, California, apartment on March 21, 2011? The story goes that Kaufman had installed an app called Hidden that emables him to remotely turn on his webcam. He used it. And he saw photos of a man. to help him identify the Macbook’s new owner, Kaufman started a tumblr site called thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com. the police got involved. And Muthanna Aldebashi has been arrested for possession of Kaufman’s property. Here he is:
Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment (1)
Jimmy Wales Is Ready To Ejaculate For Wikipedia (Photo)
LIKE you, we’ve been looking at and wondering about those photos of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that hang over his site.
Someone took a screen grab.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
The Most WTF Twitpic Photos Ever (So Far)
TWITTER is great for outing others. But Twit Pic is even better for outing yourself. We’ve pulled together a collection of WTF pics from the service.
Posted: 1st, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
How To Make People Believe You In This Internet Age
SOME handy advice on how to make people like you from an advertising executive.
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Posted: 29th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
‘TWITTER REVEALS SECRETS’ – Sunday Telegraph News Sensation
NEVER let is be said that the Sunday Telegraph is not hot on the big stories of the day. As its front-page says: “TWITTER REVEALS SECRETS”.
You heard it there first…
Posted: 29th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
Texans Want Airport Staff To Stop Touching Their Genitals, Now
LIKE the rest of us, Texans don’t like having their genitals felt up by uniformed security staff at airports.
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Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Google Wallet: They Have Your Data, Now They Want Your Money
SO they know where you were last night, they know what your name is and what you email your girlfriend about. But they’d like to go a little further.
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Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Thirty Years Ago The Delorean Car Was Born
THIRTY years ago, the first DeLorean DMC-12 rolled off the production line in Londonderry, Antrim. The car was the brainchild of General Motors’s John Zachary DeLorean. He would build an affordable European 125mph sports car that would also sell well in the States. He would build it in Belfast, where unemployment was rife. He would make it out of stainless steel – it would not rust for 20 years! It would have gull wings.
The styling was epic. But the technology was flawed. When things did not go well, the Thatcher government pumped in 30m of public money, on top of the £50 the previous Jim Callaghan regime has invested.
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Posted: 27th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Mark Zuckerberg Only Eats Animals He Has Killed Himself
SHOULD we be scared?
Or impressed? It’s hard to know how to feel about the revelation that Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will only eat animals that he has killed with his own two hands.
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Posted: 27th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Actually, DO Post More Pictures Of Beer On Facebook – It Means You Get More Friends
IT does. A SURVEY showed that if you’re a “college guy” who frequently refers to alcohol or posts pictures of it up on your Facebook profile you have more friends than someone else who doesn’t.
Posted: 27th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
It Was Pimply Hacker-Heros Anonymous Who Really Freed Egypt!
THE hacker nerds Anonymous really are everybody’s favourite freedom fighters right now. Forget the fact that they are largely greasy-haired 19 year-olds fiddling with themselves in dark rooms in Oregon, some sections of the media have elevated them to the status of wavy-haired Che Gueveras. Those kids aren’t just watching tentacle porn! – They’re liberating oppressed peoples!“Anonymous represent the untameable wild west of the web, a world where geeks teach the corrupt and powerful a lesson.”
Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
A Person We Can’t Name Sues Another Person We Don’t Know The Name Of: Twitter Stuck In #Superinjunction Court Case Hell
BAD news for Twitter as an anonymous celebrity has decided to sue the social networking site for breaking a super-injunction. Both Twitter and the anonymous user behind a Twitter feed that named the celebrities behind the super-injunctions could end up in the docks in London.Posted: 20th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comments (4)
Twitter Users Aren’t An Elite – Look At The Crap That Trends Every Day #Rapture
SOMETIMES people on Twitter accuse other people on Twitter of being elitist media whores prattling to each other about press releases with their HootSuites up their own echo chambers. Or something.
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Posted: 20th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
The Map Of Twitter: How To Find You Place In Social Media
GREG Stekleman has completed his Twitter Map- the TWmap is live (with Johann Hari, Daily Mail, Stephen Fry and toilets in the Crouch End zone)
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Posted: 20th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
How To Save Your Porsche From A Flood
THIS is how you save your Porsche from a flood:
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Posted: 11th, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Facebook Deletes 50 Political Accounts: Dissent Is Censored
IS FACEBOOK deleting accounts of the politically minded? Facebook is a private company, it can delete and accept whom it likes. But why have these accounts been deleted? Why is free speech, apparently, not welcome on Facebook?
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Posted: 29th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (5)
