Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies  —  Jonathan Mayer, a researcher at Stanford, has contributed a patch for Firefox that will block third-party cookies from installing on the user's browser.  The patch is set to be incorporated into Firefox 22.  For some sense of timing on the project, Firefox 19 was released on Tuesday.

“Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More  —  Courtesy of a plethora of very irked Yahoo employees, here is the internal memo sent to the company about a new rule rolled out today by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees …

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 official: 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad, 1280 x 800 display, HSPA+ 21, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2  —  We knew another Note was coming.  After all, Samsung Mobile head JK Shin confirmed the news back in January.  But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the tablet's finally been made official.

How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet  —  It's one depressingly typical minute of the 6.2 million uploaded to YouTube every day: In a Montreal park, nothing much is happening.  The camera pans around a clear blue sky, tracing the arc of a golden eagle as it twists and turns through the air.

Hail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit  —  The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages.  Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down.  —  That may be why the front page of Reddit has become …

What to Expect When You Are Expecting a Lot of News Out of Barcelona  —  Mobile World Congress doesn't really get going until the weekend.  —  But here at AllThingsD, we want you to have a pretty good idea what to expect even before things kick off in Barcelona.

Falcon Pro Hits 100K User Token Limit - Another Twitter Client Bites The Dust  —  In case you hadn't heard, back in August of last year Twitter changed the rules for their API, limiting developers to 100,000 individual user tokens for outside apps (or 200% of then-totals, if the app already had more than 100,000 users).

Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile  —  The social network recently fixed a bug discovered by a developer who demonstrated how the loophole let him take over other people's accounts.  —  A security hacker recently found a flaw in a Facebook system that allowed developers …

Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement  —  Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”

Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months  —  Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic.  The latest plan is let users request specific articles …

Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears  —  Malicious software unintentionally downloaded by offshore oil workers has incapacitated computer networks on some rigs and platforms, exposing gaps in security that could pose serious risks to people and the environment, cybersecurity professionals told the Houston Chronicle.

Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate  —  The company also reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services  —  Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.

Microsoft suffers from same hacking attack as Apple, Facebook, small number of computers infected  —  Microsoft has announced via its Security Response Center blog that it has been the victim of a hacking similar in nature to that experienced by Apple and Facebook recently.