It turned out that many websites (CNN, BBC, NPR, CNET, Forbes, the Daily Mail, Mashable, the Daily Telegraph are just a handful) had been duped in recent days by supposed research from AptiQuant showing that users of Internet Explorer scored lower than average in IQ tests.
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Facebook killer video scam spreads between social networkers
A new scam has spread quickly across Facebook this weekend, pretending to be a link to a TV news report about an alleged Facebook killer.
Here’s a typical message that has been seen spreading between social networking users:
(BREAKING NEWS) Facebook-Killer
[LINK]
07-29-2011 - News ?epo?ts of a ma? they are calling the 'Facebook Killer' have ?one ram?ant, he has claimed 9 lives in the United States so far that we ?now
Facebook to start paying security bug bounties
Just over two years ago, a triumvirate of security researchers – Charlie Miller, Alex Sotirov, and Dino Dai Zovi – announced what they hoped would become an internet meme: “No more free bugs.”
Their argument was that non-aligned security researchers who find security-related bugs ought to be paid for disclosing them to the relevant vendor. No money, no report.
Twitter to Add Parental Controls
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Twitter has added a way to flag links within tweets as “possibly sensitive.” The company announced late Thursday that there is a new field in the Twitter streaming API that will show up whenever a tweet contains a link, giving Twitter users the option to be warned before they click links that might be too sensitive for the workplace, or for tender ears and eyes.
The new feature is not functional yet, but Twitter was informing developers that it was just added and is now in the testing phase. According to Twitter representative Taylor Singletary, “In the future, we’ll have a family of additional API methods & fields for handling end-user ‘media settings’ and possibly sensitive content.”
According to Gizmodo, Twitter reps say the company doesn’t intend to censor material. But according to Twitter’s media policy document, the company will “remove media that might be considered sensitive such as nudity, violence, or medical procedures.”
