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17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm — Brooklyn, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Mikeyy Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.com from Brooklyn, has admitted responsibility for the Twitter worm that rapidly spread through Twitter on Saturday, stating in an email to BNO News …
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Wily Weekend Worms — On a weekend normally reserved for bunnies, a worm took center stage. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program sometimes introduced by folks with malicious intent to do some harm to a network. Please note that no passwords, phone numbers …
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Mashable!, Twittercism, TECH.BLORGE.com, Twitter Status, Wats**t and Network World, Thanks:atul
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Twitter worm outbreak over Easter — A cross-site scripting worm was spreading in Twitter profiles for several hours last night. — People started reporting that their profile had sent Twitter messages without their knowledge. Messages looked like this: — Later on the messages morphed several times:
Josh / Bokardo:
The Slow Erosion of Google Search — Editor's Note: this is a guessay, a portmanteau of the words “guess” and “essay”, which means that I'm officially making this stuff up. — I remember it very clearly. Four of us were getting together for breakfast last year at SXSW.
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Erica Friedman / Examiner:
Online censorship? Amazon strips ranking of Gay and Lesbian books — One of the most powerful indicators of how a book is doing sales wise and can be a leading factor for generating or killing interest in a book. Though many factors go into the sales ranking system, the primary driving factor has been sales-number of books sold.
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CNET News, Booksquare, Meta Writer, Mark R. Probst, Mashable!, TECH.BLORGE.com, Net Effect and Amazon & …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
New Swiveling Nokia hitting Verizon Wireless? — If this wasn't from one of our normal ninjas we probably wouldn't publish it, but since it is, here we go... We've been told that there's a “swiveling E71-type handset” that's going to be launched on Verizon around the July/August time-frame.
Philip Lam / Your Source for Palm Pre News:
Palm hints at new Touchstone Product Line, Inductive data transferring? — After watching a 45 minute long Palm Pre demo video from Myriam over at tnkgrl, an interesting tidbit slipped out from a marketing manager at Palm. — “The Touchstone is the name of a entire line of products.
Associated Press:
Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school's three hospitals. — University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak …
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
IPhone changes dynamics of game software industry — After years of building large, graphics-intensive blockbusters, developers are starting to make shorter, less expensive games for the iPhone and its phone-less sibling, the iPod Touch. — Reporting from San Francisco — Only a few years ago …
James Doran / Guardian:
IBM set to axe thousands in move to cheap labour abroad — IBM is planning to axe thousands of jobs in Britain, Germany and Ireland as part of a broader move to shift much of its workforce to cheaper outlets in eastern Europe, China, India and South America, the Observer has learned.
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alarm:clock:
VC Firms Bet on Digital Pen Technology — Today, Adapx announced that it brought in $9M in second round funding led by UV Partners. OVP Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group joined this round as well. Founded 10 years ago the Seattle, Washington based firm has been developing natural …
Louis Gray:
Are Your Writing Your Headlines for Google or for Twitter? — While RSS still plays a very important role for practically all online publications to get their news out to subscribers, and Google plays a critical role for the stories to get picked up by casual visitors …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google in the middle — Three truths: — 1. Google is a middleman made of software. It's a very, very large middleman made of software. Think of what Goliath or the Cyclops or Godzilla would look like if they were made of software. That's Google. — 2. The middleman acts in the middleman's interest.
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