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01/06/2009 Twitter Hack Trail Leads To 'DigitalGangster'

It all seems to point back to one person that goes by “Gmz” on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz obtained the account credentials and then posted them on DigitalGanster.

01/06/2009 How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web but Failed

From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions. Every newspaper Web site is instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. By succeeding, they failed to invent the Web.

01/06/2009 The Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical

Yesterday, I was with my wife in the L'Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to ...

01/06/2009 Mininova’s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year

The BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that it’s the fastest way to transfer large files online. One of the most frequently visited torrent sites, Mininova, has seen the number of torrent downloads double from 3.5 billion to 7 billion during 2008, and this download rate is still increasing.

01/06/2009 Online video viewing jumps 34 percent

U.S. Internet users watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to ComScore data.

01/06/2009 If a 13 year-old can launch a startup you have no excuse

My name's Scott. I'm 13 and have launched a web startup. So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me ...

01/06/2009 How the Famous Tweeple Got Hacked

So how did the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Facebook, and others get broken into and littered with inappropriate messages earlier today? It wasn’t residue from this weekend’s phishing problems, but rather, a breach of Twitter’s customer support tools.

01/06/2009 Mininova's Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year

The BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that it’s the fastest way to transfer large files online. One of the most frequently visited torrent sites, Mininova, has seen the number of torrent downloads double from 3.5 billion to 7 billion during 2008, and this download rate is still increasing.

01/05/2009 Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual'

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday.

01/05/2009 China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography

China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.