cagraham writes “Facebook has started delivering custom weekly reports to select TV networks, detailing the total amount of social interactions related to individual TV episodes.According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is using its data analytics to track the amount of times an episode is liked, shared, or mentioned each week. The data is then…

Latest Snowden leak shows government economical with the truth……

Google’s guts, Twitter’s tweaks, Basho’s database details, and more……

Google has unveiled the Google Web Designer app for Chrome, but it should really be called Google Ad Designer. It provides a way to create Adobe Flash-style animated ads in HTML5/CSS3……

Working with his Internet.org partners, Facebook’s CEO outlines what needs to be done to drop the cost of Web access worldwide…….

In case you’re keeping score, that’s a full $200 less than Apple’s 8-inch tablet. How does it compare? On paper, surprisingly well…….

Can fluorescent oil help researchers improve better aeronautic designs? NASA hopes so…….

MTorrice writes “A new type of headphone heats up carbon nanotubes to crank out tunes. The tiny speaker doesn’t rely on moving parts and instead produces sound through the thermoacoustic effect. When an alternating current passes through the nanotubes, the material heats and cools the air around it; as the air warms, it expands, and…

freeFTPd 1.0.10 and below contains an overflow condition that is triggered as user-supplied input is not properly validated when handling a specially crafted PASS command. This may allow a remote attacker to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or allow the execution of arbitrary code. FreeFTPd must have an account set…

This Metasploit module exploits a use-after-free vulnerability that targets Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7. The flaw most likely exists in versions 6/7/8/9/10/11. It was initially found in the wild in Japan, but other regions such as English, Chinese, Korean, etc, were targeted as well. The vulnerability is due to how the mshtml!CDoc::SetMouseCapture function handles…