Anonymous Hackers Attack Yemeni Government [Hackers]
Anonymous took down Egyptian government websites today to protest the country’s Internet censorship. Old news. Now they’ve moved on to Yemen, where an Egypt-style “day of rage” is scheduled for tomorrow. Hackers have already taken down the Ministry of Information. More »
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The iPad Newspaper is Here [Video]
Rupert Murdoch and his team at News Corp., plus third-string Apple executive Eddy Cue, just unveiled the much-hyped iPad newspaper, The Daily, in New York. It’s got video, big pictures, embedded Twitter, and updates that “break in” to the app. More »
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Is Bing Copying Google’s Search Results? [Search Wars]
A Google engineer suggests Bing may be pilfering the search giant’s results, and has showed the results of Google’s digital sting as proof. Bing says the results offer little more than a lesson in “click fraud.” Shots fired! More »
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Flickr Goes Nuclear on Innocent Photos [Whoops]
If you complain about another user’s misbehavior, Flickr might accidentally delete your 4,000 photos forever instead of the other guy’s account. It’s too bad the Yahoo division hasn’t fixed its longstanding deletion problem, but at least it’s apologizing now! More »
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Google CEO Seeks Book Deal [Publishing]
Having failed to sell his “disaster” of a TV show, Eric Schmidt is now shopping a book proposal. Because, honestly, what else is Google’s CEO going to do? Oversee the biggest, most profitable and indispensable site on the internet? Please. More »
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