An IP address at the House of Representatives has received a 10-day ban from anonymous edits on Wikipedia. It follows malicious edits receiving unwanted publicity. A Twitter account, @congressedits, automatically posts a message whenever a computer using any IP address assigned to Congress makes an edit. While it may be that some representatives and their […]
Verizon is to upgrade all of its FiOS customers to increase their upload speeds to match their download speeds. There’ll be no extra charge, though some users will have to wait. Right back to the days when nerdier folk showed off about knowing what the A in ADSL stood for, most broadband users have come […]
Facebook has added a “Save” feature that acts like a bookmark tool for linked content on your news feed. Unlike tools such as Instapaper, it doesn’t allow offline viewing. The feature will be available on both the desktop website version of the site and on the official Android/iOS apps. On posts which contain a link, […]
A Wall Street Journal journalist has published his Twitter password to prove the value of two-factor authentication. Christopher Mims remains unhacked, but his argument hasn’t been entirely borne out. Mims wrote a piece titled “The Password Is Finally Dying. Here’s Mine” with the subheading “Device-Based Authentication Is Making Passwords Irrelevant.” Ironically the piece is behind a […]
The Norwegian government says it will not repeat experiments with online voting. It said there wasn’t enough guarantee of security and a secret vote. The country used online voting as an option in 12 cities and towns as an experiment in 2011 and 2013 and has now reported on the experience. In the 2013 experiment, […]
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YouTube is adding a host of new features including 60 frames per second content, user-submitted subtitles and a virtual tip jar. The payment scheme, known as YouTube Fan Funding, will allow users to contribute towards the production costs of videos or simply make a payment as a way of thanks. There aren’t too many details […]
The Federal Communications Commission is said to be mulling over a change in the threshold for an Internet service to be considered broadband, with 10Mbps the most likely new threshold. At the moment the FCC defines “broadband” (which it also refers to as “high-speed Internet”) as 4Mbps with a 1Mbps upload. It’s planning a public […]
Facebook has added a feature so that you can ask friends whether or not they are in a relationship. It sounds like a way to help the somewhat creepy, but as always advertising is likely the key. The new feature applies to any field in a user’s profile that they’ve not yet completed, such as phone […]
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