The popular group chat system Campfire is currently being nailed with a DDoS attack. Turns out some blackmailing hackers are trying to extort money from the provider. They’re refusing to negotiate. Read more…
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Blackmail DDOS Attack Takes Out Major Online Chat Service Campfire
TechCrunch reports that your Facebook news feed is getting a design touchup. Nothing major: new fonts, “bolder” images, and a simplified left sidebar. As for the glorious overhaul we were supposed to get last year—still no word. Read more…
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TechCrunch reports that your Facebook news feed is getting a design touchup.
Nothing feels worse than getting a speeding ticket in the mail. What. The. Truck. As if they weren’t bad enough as-is, a report from the Washington DC metropolitan area suggest that the cameras used to catch you might not be playing by the rules. In fact, the camera contractors might be fudging the evidence to make sure you can’t challenge the tickets. Read more…
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A Speeding Ticket Camera Company Is Doctoring Evidence Photos
Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced that he would publish an alpha design for his crazy-sounding “Hyperloop” by August 12. According to Musk , the diagram above is as close as anyone has gotten to figuring out how the super-fast transit technology might work. And it seems bonkers. Read more…
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The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work
Until now, multitasking in iOS has been fairly limited. Now, it’s going to work for all apps—and Apple says it’s going to provide background updates to all apps—and Apple says all those background cycles aren’t going to hurt your battery life. Read more…
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iOS 7 Adds Multitasking for All Apps
Depending on where you’re from and where you’ve lived in the United States, you probably say things a little differently than people from other parts of the country. You’ve experienced this, but you’ve never seen how the regional dialects of the United States break down quite so cleanly. Read more…
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How Americans Speak Differently in Various Regions, Visualized
Google just announced a new interface for you Gmail based around customizable tabs. The goal? To you help manage your goliath of an inbox. It looks pretty incredible. Read more…
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Gmail’s Getting a Neat Freak Overhaul for Web and Mobile