Your Facebook Pokes Are Stored For Two Days, Then Their Encryption Keys Are Deleted  —  Facebook Poke messages self-destruct after a few seconds, but is Facebook saving these potentially embarrassing photos and videos?  No. It's deleting them.  Pokes are encrypted, and Facebook deletes …

Hacker nabs 3m Verizon customer records  —  UPDATED: A hacker has acquired more than 3 million Verizon customer records — but leaks only 10 percent of them, after the phone and broadband giant fails to fix a security flaw.

The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed  —  The New York Times instituted a paywall on its website last year, a controversial move that has yielded great results.  —  Ever since the New York Times rolled out its so-called paywall in March 2011, a perennial dispute has waged.

Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively  —  Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser.  As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled …

Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption  —  Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn't start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly in the area of publishing.

Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire  —  Nicholas Woodman, avid surfer and GoPro founder, is now a billionaire.  (Photo courtesy of GoPro)  —  GoPro cameras have become the go-to item for filming extreme sports.  The small, high quality video cameras …

Microsoft Releases Wordament, the First iPhone Game with Xbox Live Achievements  —  Microsoft has released a game tonight called Wordament for the iPhone.  The game has been a popular Windows Phone game, but is now also available on iOS.  Wordament was originally a side-project …

United States and Russia establish joint action plan to combat piracy  —  The United States and Russia have established an agreement to work together to fight intellectual property violations.  As specified in the Intellectual Rights Protection Action Plan, Russia has agreed to shut down infringing websites …

Mozilla backpedals on Firefox 64-bit for Windows, will keep nightly builds coming after all  —  Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day.  After what he referred to as …