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One of today’s Pulitzer winners for local reporting isn’t actually a reporter anymore. The Daily Breeze’s Rob Kuznia won the prize alongside Rebecca Kimitch for a series on corruption in the Torrance, California school district. Now the former reporter, who had more than 15 years’ experience covering local affairs, is celebrating the career high in…
article start Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones, a move some are calling “mobilegeddon” because of its impact on website operators. The new formula will give a boost in Google’s “organic” search results to sites that are designed to look good on smartphones, while penalizing those…
Facebook is constantly evaluating what’s the right mix of content in News Feed and we want to let you know about a change that may affect referral traffic for publishers. Referral traffic to media publishers from Facebook has more than doubled in the past 18 months and we’re always looking for ways to optimize how…
From the very first game in the series through to today, India’s supposedly-peaceful leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been famous for one thing: dropping nukes. And there’s a very good reason for it. It’s not your mind playing tricks on you, or a case of myth becoming accepted fact, he really does drop nukes more than…
Multiple WordPress Plugins are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to the misuse of the add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions. These are popular functions used by developers to modify and add query strings to URLs within WordPress. The official WordPress Official Documentation (Codex) for these functions was not very clear and misled many plugin developers to…
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride. But I’m concerned with the phrase preceding it, which captures wrath in more universal terms: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.” Even an angry Almighty can’t compete with mortals whose love turns to hate….
The New Republic published a withering profile of Cornel West this weekend, comparing the philosopher to Mike Tyson, who at the heights of his boxing prowess was the most feared fighter on the planet, but who is now a celebrity shell of his former self. Writer Michael Eric Dyson charts what he believes is West’s…
I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/gone-girl-an… Why would an American college student run away to Syria and join ISIS? Meet Hoda, a 20-year-old w… Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS – BuzzFeed News.
Winners Letters, Drama, and Music FictionAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)DramaBetween Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly GuirgisHistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)Biography or AutobiographyThe Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in…
HBO If you were planning to watch Darth Sansa and Whisperfinger’s creepy love grow in Videology’s back room tonight, you’re out of luck—HBO’s banned the Williamsburg bar from doing live screenings of Game Of Thrones, all in the name of anti-piracy. Videology, which also screens Mad Men on Sundays, has been showing Game of Thrones…