Twitter is one of only two companies to get full marks for protecting customer privacy from law enforcement agencies in a new report. The Electronic Frontier Foundation ranked MySpace and Verizon bottom, closely followed by Apple and Yahoo.

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Mozilla has reacted angrily to the discovery that a particularly nasty piece of commercial spyware is using the Firefox brand to try to fool both casual and expert computer users. But it’s reiterated that Firefox itself is safe to use. The spyware in question is called FinFisher. It’s not a case of FinFisher trying to [...]

Craigslist has lost a court bid to stop other companies running services based around its posts. A court dismissed sections of its terms of service that claimed full copyright over all posting on the site. The case was based around three companies that all use data from Craigslist postings. This include PadMapper, a site that [...]

Most of the LED lighting innovations have surrounded developing a cost effective light bulb for lamps and standard light fixtures.  The Klauf Light Bar (KLB) provides an LED and light fixture in one.  The light is elongated similar to the florescent bulbs found in ceiling fixtures in schools and businesses.  It can be used either [...]

Twitter has written to major news organizations asking them to take extra steps to stop themselves being hacked. It follows a string of bogus posts, one of which caused a brief stock market drop. As we covered last week, a hacker took control of the Associated Press account and claimed Barack Obama had been injured [...]

Google Glass has been out for less than a month, but newfound owners are already wondering how they can break it, hack it, and make it work in ways that, perhaps, don’t fulfill Google’s vision for Glass. Enter Jay Freeman, who hacked and rooted his Glass while he ate dinner with friends. The whole process, [...]

As we we enter the era of the “phablet,” our jeans are begging us for bigger pockets. One company thinks they have the answer. I/O Denim is a company that has created premium jeans that feature a dedicated smartphone pocket. The pocket is on the left-hand side of the jeans, in between the knee and [...]

Apple iTunes, once the pinnacle of the online media marketplace, has peaked, with streaming options from the likes of Spotify, Pandora, Hulu, and Netflix condemning it to a slow, agonizing decline into pointlessness. OK, so I may have exaggerated just a little there, but no more than Bloomberg has in an article detailing iTunes’ fall [...]

Google has agreed to change the way it presents search results for some type of queries following pressure from the European Union. But rival Internet firms have already said the changes don’t go far enough. The EU probe, led by its administrative wing the European Commission, looked at whether some of Google’s business practices were [...]

For an age where digital media is supposed to have replaced the physical form, there sure seem to be a lot of gadgets to plug into your TV. Amazon now looks set to be the latest to offer a “set-top” box, though goodness only knows why. According to multiple anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg, the [...]

Either it’s right on time or two hacks too late. Twitter is reportedly testing its two-factor authentication system before releasing it — incrementally according to Wired — to users. Two-factor authentication is a method of authentication which would require two forms of input, usually a password and a code, to authorize an account’s use on [...]

Reddit has admitted that some posts on the site made the aftermath of the Boston bombings worse. It says innocent people were hounded despite policies on the site meant to prevent such dangers. The site is a combination of social news directory and discussion board. Within both the site as a whole and within individual [...]

A non-profit group is looking for four people to start a permanent colony on Mars.  The group has opened up the search so anyone can apply online. You can live out your SciFi fantasies and actually head out into space to be one of the first Earth colonies on another planet. The first manned one [...]

During its second quarter earnings call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said there are some very exciting products on the horizon for the world’s most popular computer company. “Work we do to produce truly innovative products is very hard. Challenges that we’ll face in the future, but we’re working very closely with our manufacturing partners [...]

The boss of Netflix has admitted a new family plan allowing four simultaneous streams is unlikely to win many users. But Reed Hastings is seemingly ambivalent about the cost of unauthorized password sharing. The company has announced impressive figures for the first three months of 2013. It broke the $1 billion barrier for revenue during [...]