Instagram learns how to Move Fast and Break Things
Instagram backtracks on privacy changes following “Move Fast and Break Things” ethos of parent company, Facebook - Tech Tonic on Reuters TV
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Here’s some stunning, Earth-shattering news: You know all those hundreds of incredibly stupid startups that have been raising seed money in Silicon Valley despite the fact that the people running those startups have no experience doing anything, ever, and have no idea at all how to generate revenue (let alone profit) with their lousy ideas, because, in fact, there is no way to make money with their lousy ideas, because in fact their ideas are lousy?
Well, nobody wants to give those dopes any more money. So now they’re going to go out of business.
Anonymous claims to have captured 12 million Apple device UUIDs from FBI Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl
Anonymous states:
During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of “NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv” turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts. no other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose.”The UUID uniquely identifies an iPhone from one another. It also ties directly to personal information stored on the phone. Anonymous alleges the FBI was using the UUIDs to track phones, over 12 million of them.
Snapshot from Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium: Today, with research-grade microscopes at our Microscope Imaging Station, we can witness once invisible events such as sea urchin fertilization.
Frank update: 61/100.
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A me sembra una pasticca di Alka-Seltzer…
… ok, è ufficialmente Alka-Seltzer. Che razza di scherzoni fanno ‘sti scienziati.
The founder of I Can Haz Cheezburger helped pay for a billboard targeting Texas Rep. Lamar Smith for his support of SOPA.
Our verdict: NEEDZ MOAR CATZ.
You’re at a Parisian café, and you’re reading your Sartre book and you’re reading Le Monde and you’re thinking of the big issues of the world and you see there’s a dog under the table next to you and you pet the dog. You don’t suddenly become stupid when you pet the dog.
you know what’s cool…
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Texas Republican Lamar Smith became Internet villain No. 1 by sponsoring SOPA. Can a band of Redditors force him out of office—or are they just trolling?
It’s Henry the Fifth, Shakespeare — outnumbered, brave, fearless. Going to their deaths or glory, one or the other. That has more poetry to it than a bunch of failed investment bankers that reconstitute themselves as app makers, or funders of app makers.
I don’t agree with what Nick had to say about Twitter but I think he’s pretty spot on regarding advertising and the state of the tech bubble.
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MA IA LI NI USB!
Twitter, Facebook, and Google endorse alternate online piracy bill
Gautham Nagesh for The Hill - Eight of the largest Web companies have endorsed an online piracy bill offered by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart PROTECT IP.
The OPEN Act would direct online patent infringement claims against foreign websites to the International Trade Commission, which would be authorized to order online ad networks and payment processors to sever ties with the rogue foreign sites.
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