snydeq writes “InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder writes of Verizon’s diabolical plan to to charge websites for carrying their packets — a strategy that, if it wins out, will be the end of the Internet as we know it. ‘Think of all the things that tick you off about cable TV. Along with brainless programming and crummy…

By taking advantage of a provision of the JOBS Act available to companies with less than $1 billion in sales, Twitter can keep details about its business secret for a few more weeks……

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-231 – Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in openswan. The IPSEC livetest tool in Openswan 2.4.12 and earlier, and 2.6.x through 2.6.16, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the in many distributions and the upstream version, this tool has…

Google updates Chrome for iOS with better voice-activated searches, faster returns to search results, and bandwidth savings tracker…….

awarrenfells writes “While Dell Inc. is announcing its desire to go private, Twitter seems to be heading in the opposite direction with its recent tweet that it seeks to go public. From the article: ‘Twitter has announced that it has filed for its IPO. Since Twitter was able to submit confidentially, this indicated that it…

For those influential or just rich and famous enough to have nabbed themselves a verified Twitter account, the social network has just announced a filter perk to help drown out the regular chatter…….

Two NY filmmakers don Google Glass as a storytelling tool for a short film about lovers shot from both their perspectives…….

Here’s a look at why we’re excited about Asus’ 2013 lineup of tablets and laptops…….

McGruber writes “During Wednesday’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Marissa Meyer was asked what would happen if Yahoo simply declined to cooperate with the NSA. She replied ‘Releasing classified information is treason. It generally lands you incarcerated.’ Meyer also revealed that the 2007 lawsuit against the Patriot Act had been filed by Yahoo: ‘I’m proud to be…

In an IM conversation from 2006, Twitter co-founders talk about kicking off the social network. “We’re starting work on the twttr implementation today,” Jack Dorsey says…….