Month: August 2011
Facebook Top Friends & Who Ends Up in There: Some comments from readers
I still wonder about it, and looks like a lot of you do too - with our story on Facebook's Top Friends Box and who ends up in there getting over 700 comments. By the top friends box we mean the 10 faces that appear under your profile picture on your personal page. It changed…
iPhone 5 release delayed till October
Rumours that Apple's iPhone 5 could be pushed back a month to October appeared on AllThingsD. Staff holidays at network partner AT&T have provided clues to techies desperate to know when the next version of the world's most popular smartphone will be released. It seems that the previous expected date of September was too optimistic,…
Jake Davis the Scottish Hacker looks like Neo from the Matrix, is reading book about Libertarian Scientists
Arrested teen hacker Jake Davis cut a defiant figure outside the City of Westminster Crown Court, wearing sunglasses and waving a science book at the massed photographers and press keen to see the human behind the hacker persona. The Police are now certain that Davis was Topiary - a LulzSec ringleader responsible for many of…
Jake Davis aka Topiary wrote Murdoch Death Article and had Private Details of 750,000
Jake Davis, now in court being charged for hacking the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, had the private details of 750,000 people stored on his computer police have said. Apparently the 18 year old also wrote the fake Sun article claiming that Rupert Murdoch was dead, and splashed it on the front page…
Scottish nationalists rally round arrested Shetland Hacker Topiary
Looks like the Americans will have to deal with a bunch of angry Scots if they want to extradite Jake Davis, the 18 year old from the Shetlands who acted as the frontman for hacking group LulzSec in their attacks on Sony, Fox News and The Sun. Davis from Yell (one of the northernmost islands…
How being Facebook Friends with your Teacher could break the law: Missouri State introduces ban
It's never been a great idea for teachers to be Facebook friends with their pupils - if you don't want Class 7F looking at your student holiday pictures that is - but it has now been banned by law in the US state of Missouri. The Facebook friendship ban is part of the "Amy Hestir…