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Syrian Electronic Army Claims to Have Taken Over Twitter’s Domain (Updating)

Take this with a grain of salt for now, but the Syrian Electronic Army claims it’s taken over Twitter’s domain registration. Indeed, several public Whois listings show sea@sea.sy as the contact information for Twitter.com. We’ve reached out to Twitter, and the company responded that they’re “looking into it” Read more…        

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You buy a music CD. Who gets what?

The BBC’s Natalie Donovan breaks down the £8 that one pays for a music CD in the UK : 30% to the label, 17% to the retailer, 13% to the artist, 8% to manufacturers, 7% to distributors, and 5% on “administering copyright.” The rest appears to be eaten by taxes.        

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You buy a music CD. Who gets what?

FlowReader Combines Your RSS Feeds and Social Feeds into One Webapp

Whether you’ve found a replacement for Google Reader or you’re still looking, you probably spend part of your time reading news feeds, and part of your time reading the links and stories your friends share on Twitter or Facebook. FlowReader combines all of those articles into one interface for easy reading. Read more…        

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Windows 8 scrubs North Korean launch

Kim Jong-un is wishing that he was still running Windows 95 like he was last year when they were able to successfully run launch tests. The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) stated that a launch test had to be put on hold due to “problems with Windows 8.” KCNA goes on to say that they are “working with Windows 8 support to resolve the issue.” There is no word what the exact nature of the problems Jong-un was experiencing, but perhaps ctrl/alt/delete might work. So what do you think was on that support ticket? I would love to know who the support staffer was so we could get a copy, but I am guessing that in the ‘description of issue’ section it went something like: “Failure to launch”

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The Library of Congress Can’t Quite Handle That Massive Tweet Archive It Was Trying to Build

A few years ago, the Library of Congress announced its plans to create an archive of every public tweet ever . If you thought that sounded a little bit optimistic, you’d be right; the Library of Congress released a white paper today explaining why they can’t quite pull it off . More »

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An Unknown Number of Twitter Accounts Have Been Compromised, Time to Change Your Passwords

TechCrunch is reporting that a number of users received an email from Twitter this morning claiming their account was compromised and that they should change their passwords now. Many users are also finding spammy tweets coming from their account that they didn’t send. More »

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