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A Bad Bing Update Took Out Yahoo Search Yesterday
News from the land of unloved search engines: yesterday, both Bing and Yahoo had an outage (don’t worry, I didn’t notice either), caused by a coding booboo from Microsoft.
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The FBI Thought This Guy’s Joke Was A Legit Threat To CNN
Remember when the FBI issued a bulletin about the Sony hackers’ threatening a media outlet? Turns out the threat was actually a thinly veiled joke made by David Garrett, Jr., a homeland security blogger from Knoxville, Tennessee. The punchline: David got to spend his New Year’s Day being questioned by the Feds!
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The Best Easter Eggs On The Internet
I have a lot of sympathy for web designers and programmers. Although they slave away to create incredible software used by millions (or, at least, the good ones do), no-one ever really appreciates their work. Easter eggs are just a tiny portal into their world.
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Pranksters Get Kim Dotcom Kicked Off His Own Site For Piracy
Kim Dotcom is probably the most wanted man in the movie theatres’ fight against piracy. He’s under investigation by the FBI, and they’re trying to extradite him from sunny, safe New Zealand to the States. But those pale in comparison to his latest problem: his account on Mega, the cloud storage site he founded last…