You are not totally in control of your choice of Facebook friends. At least, that’s what Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec thinks, and he’s just received a fellowship from the Microsoft Research Faculty to help him prove it.
Leskovec believes that your online activity can be used to predict who you’ll add as a friend on Facebook. …
First off, did you know the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has its own daily newspaper? It’s called CDCR Today and it’s a wonderful read! Actually it’s a blog and it’s not daily but, hey, sometimes ideas start small and then snowball into major media empires.
Pro hacker tip: When you’re planning to hack someone, don’t tell them in advance. More importantly, don’t tell them exactly when you’re planning to rock their universe.
But that’s just what a video purportedly by hacktivist collective Anonymous does, boasting of an upcoming attack on Facebook, and setting the data for November 5, …
UPDATE (8:48PM EST): Fox News has made a few statements regarding the difficulties of moderating online comments to Yahoo’s The Cutline blog, which you can read here.
Just because a news network claims to be fair and balanced doesn’t mean its Facebook fans have to be. Following the appearance of Blair Scott, the Communications …
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Question: Now that my friends are all jumping onboard this Google+ thing, is there a way to sync my posts with Facebook and Twitter?
Answer: If you’re a Chrome user, there’s a promising new extension called Publish Sync …
While many are blaming social media for helping looters organize themselves during the riots that have swept across London the past two nights, it turns out social media may be even more useful to recovery efforts.
A spontaneous volunteer clean-up effort of the city is being organized on Twitter under the hashtag #riotcleanup, which …
It sounds like the third-act reveal of some non-descript legal drama, but attorneys for Facebook are claiming that they have “smoking gun documents” in the ongoing legal battle with Paul Ceglia—the man who claims that he actually owns half of the social networking giant—but that they aren’t allowed to say what they are, by court …
We all know Facebook is an easy privacy punching bag. The social network has a tendency to tinker with our personal data, and deservedly lands in hot water now and then with paranoid users, pundits and politicians.
But the latest episode in Facebook’s ongoing privacy drama has little to do with Facebook itself. Researchers at Carnegie …
Sanford Wallace’s claim to fame as the Spam King dates back to the late ’90s, when his company, Cyber Promotions, became notorious for sending unsolicited junk emails to the masses.
Flash forward to 2011, and Wallace is now facing criminal charges for allegedly sending over 27 million spam messages through illegally phished Facebook …
So GQ has a gallery called The 15 Worst-Dressed Men Of Silicon Valley and—SPOILER ALERT—Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg took the top spot. Apple’s Steve Jobs came in second place.
Yes, Zuckerberg dresses like he’s still in college but, hey, two quick things: 1. He changes outfits and 2. He’s actually put on a jacket and tie …
This ought to make for some awkward dinner conversation the next time all the Zuckerbergs get together.
“How’s work going, Mark?”
“Randi quit, Mom! How do you think work’s going?! GOD!”
It’s not a total Facebook defriendification as the (very believable) above portrayal would have you believe. Randi Zuckerberg—or “RaZu” as her …
Worried about your online privacy, and the simplicity with which your life can be uncovered from one stray thread of social media? If not, maybe you should be. British journalist Joanna Geary—a web development editor at the London Times—demonstrated just how easy it is to track down information about strangers online during a …
