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Apr 27, 2011 1:58 AM CDT

Friendster Erasing Past

Users nostalgic as former Facebook rival plans to wipe profile

(Newser) - Social networking also-ran Friendster has announced it plans to delete all user profile content as of May 31, erasing blog entries, friend endorsements, and photos from as far back as 2003. The news has touched off a wave of nostalgia among former users, the New York Times finds. "Your...

Raunchy .XXX Debuts Online

Apr 19, 2011 2:23 AM CDT

Raunchy .XXX Debuts Online

First .xxx sites spring up despite porn purveyors' objections

(Newser) - The Internet's "red light district" has gone live, with the first sites using the .xxx domain name suffix making their debut. ICM Registry, the company tasked with running the new domain, says .xxx will only be available to the adult industry. For now, however, new sites like porn....

Military Secrets Bared
in Brit Internet Blunders

Apr 18, 2011 4:03 AM CDT

Military Secrets Bared in Brit Internet Blunders

Redacted information often easy to restore, says British newspaper

(Newser) - British military secrets, contaminated blood information, commercial negotiations, and other secret data is now readily available online, reports the Telegraph . Most of the documents were made available through Freedom of Information laws—but with sensitive information redacted. But because of an Internet blunder by officials, the redacted information is often...

Sean Duffy Video: Wisconsin GOP Tries to Yank Footage From Internet

Wisc. GOP
Tries to
Yank Duffy's
'$174K' Video

Mar 31, 2011 9:18 AM CDT

Wisc. GOP Tries to Yank Duffy's '$174K' Video

Polk County Republicans tell TPM to take it down

(Newser) - When Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy started taking heat for complaining that he was struggling to get by on his $174,000 salary, the Polk County GOP yanked the video of the townhall meeting from its website; now it's trying to eradicate the video from the Internet, reports Talking Points Memo....

Site Takes On World Champs of Pessimism: the French

Mar 21, 2011 2:46 AM CDT

Site Takes On World Champs of Pessimism: the French

Professor's evidence counters doomsayers

(Newser) - Can the Internet cure pessimism? A French professor hopes so, and is launching a site designed to battle the blues in France. It's aimed at "les declinologists," who fear that French culture and society are in their death throes. A poll early this year found the French to...

.XXX: Porn Sites Get New Online Addresses

Porn Sites Get .XXX Addresses

Mar 19, 2011 9:13 AM CDT

Porn Sites Get .XXX Addresses

And porn industry not happy, considering legal action

(Newser) - The Internet got its very own street corner yesterday, as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers gave the greenlight to a ".xxx" virtual redlight district. And purveyors of porn and the religious right alike aren't happy with the decision, reports the New York Times . “Our industry...

Assange: Web
Is Massive
Spying
Machine

Mar 16, 2011 1:38 AM CDT

Assange: Web Is Massive Spying Machine

Governments will use Internet against citizens, he warns

(Newser) - The Internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever known," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned in a speech. While the Web holds great promises of increasing transparency in government operations, it will more likely be used by officials to spy on their own citizens, he...

Is Google Launching
Own Social Networking Site?

Mar 14, 2011 3:10 PM CDT

Is Google Launching Own Social Networking Site?

Blogs report conflicting information on 'Google Circles'

(Newser) - Google will soon launch a social network, blogs are saying, and it may be called Google Circles. The tech blog The Next Web first reported the news Friday, noting that the product would launch at Google’s I/O conference in May; ReadWriteWeb followed with an assertion that the new service...

'Mediocre' Facebook Following AOL's Path

OPINION

Mar 9, 2011 1:51 PM CST

'Mediocre' Facebook Following AOL's Path

Sam Biddle: It's trying 'to be' the Internet, just like AOL did—badly

(Newser) - So now we'll be able to watch movies on Facebook. And play Angry Birds . And pretty much everything else, the way things are going. "Facebook is reaching its tendrils into every single thing we like about the Internet, far, far beyond the actual reasons we rolled up to Zuckerberg's...

Browser Add-On Wipes
Charlie Sheen From Web

Mar 8, 2011 3:39 PM CST

Browser Add-On Wipes Charlie Sheen From Web

... or at least the sites you're looking on

(Newser) - It's possible Sheen-mania has already crested, what with his firing from Two and a Half Men, but if you're sick of the coke-addled star, click over to Tinted Sheen , a Sheen-blocking browser add-on for Firefox or Chrome. The add-on blacks out mentions of his name and puts a flat blue...

How Egypt Turned
Off the Internet

Feb 16, 2011 8:52 AM CST

How Egypt Turned Off the Internet

Other regimes might be able to do the same thing

(Newser) - Conventional wisdom holds that the Internet is too resilient and decentralized for a government to simply shut it down, but Egypt managed to do just that, and engineers are just starting to realize how. Cairo controls—and was able to close off—the handful of lines that connect Egypt to...

Shakespeare Needed Paywalls
—and We Do, Too

Feb 15, 2011 11:00 AM CST

Shakespeare Needed Paywalls —and We Do, Too

Piracy could've stopped great writers' careers before they began

(Newser) - The recent discovery of earthenware knobs in England—a distinctive feature of the moneyboxes used to collect admission for theaters in Shakespeare's time—prompts a reflection from author Scott Turow and Authors Guild chief Paul Aiken on the link between commerce and creative culture for the New York Times . Think...

.Love? .Nazi?
Domain Name
Suffix Battle
Heats Up

Feb 7, 2011 8:54 AM CST

.Love? .Nazi? Domain Name Suffix Battle Heats Up

Will it make surfing easier—or just more complicated?

(Newser) - In a matter of months, companies will have the chance to gobble up brand new domain name suffixes—and controversy is already boiling. In 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a plan to expand the selection of suffixes from the usual .com and .net to choices...

'Tree Octopus' Hoax Shows Kids Believe Anything Online

Students believe everything they read online, warns researcher

(Newser) - Today's students have a worrying habit of believing everything they read on the Internet, according to a researcher who found it easy to trick young people into believing that endangered "tree octopuses" live in the Pacific Northwest. Students directed to a phony website highlighting the creature's plight continued to...

NBC Fires Worker Who Posted
'What Is the Internet' Video

Feb 5, 2011 1:45 PM CST

NBC Fires Worker Who Posted 'What Is the Internet' Video

Network isn't laughing, even if everyone else is

(Newser) - Most people got a chuckle over the 1994 video of Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel struggling to understand that new Internet thing, but not everybody's laughing: NBC fired the employee who posted it, reports the All Things Digital blog . “The individual in question violated the company’s standards of...

Internet Runs Out of
Spare Room This Week

Feb 1, 2011 7:31 AM CST

Internet Runs Out of Spare Room This Week

IANA to distribute last batch of IP addresses

(Newser) - The IPocalypse is nigh! Internet real estate will become a precious commodity this week, when the International Assigned Numbers Authority releases its last IP addresses —the numbers devices use to identify themselves on the Internet. How big a deal is that? Well, the Wall Street Journal likens it to...

China Blocks
'Egypt' Search Term

Jan 31, 2011 8:40 AM CST

China Blocks 'Egypt' Search Term

Media offers limited coverage of protests

(Newser) - As protests continue to rage across Egypt, Chinese authorities have blocked Internet searches for the country’s name in its microblogging services. Big portals like Sohu.com and Sina.com have been offering the Twitter-like services, but a search for "Egypt" on Sina.com returns this message: "According...

Couric, Gumbel:
What's an Internet?

1994: SO LONG AGO

Jan 29, 2011 1:04 PM CST

Couric, Gumbel: What's an Internet?

Ah, the painful musings of the past

(Newser) - Remember 1994? Neither does your Newser! But apparently it was a magical time of pre-crazy Mel Gibson, Dems getting trounced in midterm elections, and ... talking heads on the teevee trying to explain something called the "Internet." Observe as Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel wonder aloud: "What is...

Dead Mom
May Have Shot
Kids After Web Rants

Jan 24, 2011 4:25 AM CST

Dead Mom May Have Shot Kids After Web Rants

Katelynn Bennett warned her husband he would lose kids

(Newser) - A troubled mother may have shot her three children and herself after posting complaints about her marital troubles online, according to investigators. The bodies of Katelynn Bennett, 30, and her two daughters and son, ages 4 to 14, were found in their partially burned Indiana home, reports CNN . An Internet...

Coming Soon?
Free WiFi for World's Poor

Jan 2, 2011 2:25 PM CST

Coming Soon? Free WiFi for World's Poor

Ahumanright.org will buy, re-purpose satellite

(Newser) - One NGO has an ambitious New Year's resolution: to reconfigure a commercial satellite in order to offer free, low-speed wireless Internet to poor parts of the world. Ahumanright.org , a Berlin nonprofit, has placed a bid for TerreStar-1, a communications satellite that belongs to a bankrupt company. From TerreStar's perch...