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“It’s all anyone can talk about in the newsroom,” a person close to the situation says about New Yorker veteran’s sudden exit Acclaimed music and culture writer Sasha Frere-Jones has abruptly exited the L.A. Times after less than a year amid allegations of expense-account shenanigans involving a strip club and accepting expensive freebies from sources….
Uber faces other labor-related hurdles. Along with Lyft, a competing ride-hailing service, the company this week withdrew operations from Austin, Tex., after losing a battle with the City Council over the nature of its background checks for drivers. Under the terms of the deal in New York, which will be in effect for five years,…
In the fall of 2007, a new social network named Friendfeed launched in semi-private beta. Founded by four ex-Google employees—Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh—it had a simple mission: “to glue together the web,” as Buchheit put it. Using site-specific RSS feed scrapers, FriendFeed would pull data from other networks—there were 23…
Matt Adams is invested in the candidacy of Donald Trump, but not just because he wants to Make America Great Again. For Adams, Trumps’ ascendency to presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican party comes with a cash prize. Potentially, he hopes, a big one. Adams, a 46-year-old web developer and IT specialist in northern Maryland,…
Google aims to make HTML5 the primary experience in Chrome by the fourth quarter of this year, except for a white-list of 10 sites that will run Adobe’s Flash Player. Under the plan revealed by Google, called “HTML5 by Default,” the Chrome browser will continue to ship with Adobe’s Flash Player, but its presence will…
Two competing narratives emerged last week after an article in tech blog Gizmodo accused Facebook of suppressing conservative news in its “trending topics” feature. Both are distractions from what I believe is the real issue. The first narrative is based on the allegations in the Gizmodo article: that Facebook’s news curators, who select the trending-topics items,…
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Click Trajectories: End-to-end analysis of the spam value chain – Levchenko et al. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011 This week we’re going to be looking at some of the less desirable corners of the internet: spam, malvertisements, click-jacking, typosquatting, and friends. To kick things off, today’s paper gives an insight into the end-to-end…
post-image During a recent conference call with reporters, Fox TV Group chairmans Dana Walden and Gary Newman both made it clear that there is strong interest in seeing “The X-Files” return for another season, especially after the success of the recent 10th season. Walden proclaimed, “We have had conversations with Chris Carter and David Duchovny…
FB Newswire shared a post. Just now · WOMAN CLAIMS SHE WAS HARASSED AFTER BEING MISTAKEN FOR TRANSGENDER: A 22-year-old Connecticut woman said she was harassed in a bathroom in a Walmart in Danbury on Friday by a woman who mistakenly thought she was transgender. Aimée Toms said she was washing her hands in the…