Anonymous hacks U.S. government websites with anti-ACTA messages

Summary: Anonymous has defaced a number of U.S. trade-related websites, including the FTC, seemingly in protest over the country’s signing to the controversial ACTA agreement.Hacking collective Anonymous took down a number of U.S. government websites early this morning in continuing protests over ACTA, the controversial anti-counterfeiting trade agreement.Websites hacked included consumer.gov, ncpw.gov, and the FTC’s business.ftc.gov website.Strongly worded and violent...

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Google is now the top public DNS provider in the world

When Google Public DNS launched in late 2009, it was only ever supposed to be an experiment. But yesterday, Google announced that it’s now the most popular public DNS in the world, handling over 70 billion requests per day. To use Google engineer Jeremy K. Chen’s own simile, as expressed in the official blog entry, DNS - short for Domain Name System - is like the Internet’s phone book. When you put a URL into the browser, the DNS service looks it up and matches it to an IP address. Google Public DNS aims to be the most complete, fastest, and most...

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Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen.

Remember the mother who beat her son for having a Facebook account? Well, this father shoots multiple bullets into his daughter’s laptop (see minute 7:15) because of her behavior on Facebook. At the time of writing, this video has over 14 million views on YouTube, some 60,000 Likes on Facebook, and over 25,000 Shares on Facebo...

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Facebook: What happens to active users when jobs come back?

Are Facebook fortunes tied to whether Americans are working? That question is worth asking given and improved jobs picture and mixed signals about what constitutes an active user on the social network.Last week, the Labor Department reported that 243,000 Americans were added to the payrolls in January. That sum was about 100,000 more than expected. Facebook’s initial public offering documents landed a few days earlier than the jobs report and cited 845 million monthly active users. Do these figures...

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10 extremely awesome iPad tips and tricks

Introduction and getting startedThink you know all there is to know about your iPad? Think again! In this gallery, I will show you some little-known tricks and tips that will get you even more excited about using your iPad. Show these tricks off to friends and family with iPads and leave them astounded in the wake of your awesomeness!Before we get started, there are a couple of things you need to know:1: These tricks will only work with iPads that are running iOS 5. If yours isn't, then just...

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Is it time for Microsoft to relinquish the Evil Empire crown to Google?

Summary: Microsoft is taking its anti-Google campaign a step further with newpaper ads aimed at highlighting controversial changes in Google’s privacy policy.There’s more than one way to grow market share, as the Softies know. Best products or first-to-market products don’t always win. Sometimes, a product can come to dominate largely because of the missteps of a competitor.Not so long ago, Microsoft’s policy was to sit back and wait for users to grow disenchanted with the competition and ultimately...

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Google's new privacy policy: Washington's misguided interrogation

Summary: Even though the new policy doesn’t change how Google operates, lawmakers are using it as a springboard into an inquiry over user privacy.I have to admit that I didn’t really get too excited when I heard last week that Google wasupdating its privacy policy. After all, companies do that kind of stuff all the time - credit card companies send notices in the mail all the time to inform their customers that new policies will soon go into effect while Internet companies produce...

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