LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Celebrities may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011. NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne became the latest celebrity to blunder on Twitter, when [...]
The latest plan concocted by hactivist types to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is pretty weird. Reporting from the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, the BBC’s David Meyer describes their scheme to create an Internet in space in order to skirt around the impending threat of Internet censorship. The hackers want to use amateur [...]
As scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland continue their search for the elusive Higgs boson “God particle,” one physicist has built a tribute to their work entirely out of Lego bricks. Sascha Mehlhase, a researcher at the Niels Bohr … Continue reading → Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/predictions-2012-open-thread-161828592.html WHAT IS AN SSL CERTIFICATE?
In the same year that Reddit, 4chan and Anonymous all entered the mainstream lexicon, “trolling” had more of an effect online and offline than ever before. “Trolling,” when used on the internet, usually refers to when someone is a jerk for the sake of being a jerk, when someone does something simply because they can. [...]
Boston (Reuters) – Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of email addresses they claimed belong to subscribers of private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc. The list, published late on Thursday, includes email addresses appearing to belong to people working for large corporations, the U.S. military and major defense contractors – [...]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to [...]
As scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland continue their search for the elusive Higgs boson “God particle,” one physicist has built a tribute to their work entirely out of Lego bricks. Sascha Mehlhase, a researcher at the Niels Bohr … Continue reading → Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-index-microbloggers-celebrate-last-friday-2011-092111175.html WHAT IS AN SSL CERTIFICATE?
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com, and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to [...]
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Two Arizona parents were arrested by sheriff’s deputies after apparently posting pictures on Facebook that showed their children, an infant and a toddler, bound with duct tape, authorities said on Thursday. Coconino County deputies arrested Frankie Almuina, 20, and Kayla Almuina, 19, on suspicion of two counts of child abuse on Wednesday [...]
The internet is not a contest. It is not a matter of who has the most visitors, or what the top 10 sites in the world are at the end of each year. With that being said, here are the 10 websites that won the internet this year, according to a report from Nielsen. Nielsen’s [...]
