I’m (was?) a Twitter user. This past week I found it utterly weird that none of the words #wikileaks, #cablegate, #cables, #Assange were actually trending
. I even tweeted about this 5 days ago. Today, my fears of secret censorship seem to be coming true. It appears that Twitter is censoring all these words, so they don’t appear in the (much-used) Twitter trends
list. Update 1: A Twitter staffer replied to the blog post saying that their trending algorithm doesn’t always result to the most popular terms. Update 2: More investigation about what might be going on — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers are tracking a new botnet that has become one of the more active DDoS networks on the Internet since its emergence early last month. The botnet, dubbed Darkness
, is being controlled by several domains hosted in Russia and its operators are boasting that it can take down large sites with as few as 1,000 bots — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Anonymous has launched a broad-ranging campaign in support of WikiLeaks, starting with a DDoS assault on a PayPal website.
The denial of service attack lasted for eight hours and resulted in numerous service disruptions, Panda Security reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nimbula — the build-your-own-cloud startup founded by Amazon’s former vice president of engineering — has released a public beta of its so-called cloud operating system, Nimbula Director — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Actor Gus Mercurio has died in Melbourne aged 82 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Wildlife carers in far north Queensland say they have uncovered what is believed to be a world first – a pair of albino blue-winged kookaburras — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A poll of 1,200 Australians to find out what issues people are most interested in has found science outranks sport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of almost 200 prominent names have appealed to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to defend WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While working on this project the main question that was raised was how to integrate a contemporary facility into the existing ambient of a small Istrian town, how to incorporate something modern into the existing area, which in itself entails a string of details and functions that considerably vary from the rural image of surrounding households, all the while striving to keep the balance with the community in general — via ArchDaily
The hackers responsible for hitting parliamentary websites with denial of service attacks could face jail time of up to 10 years, police have said — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
Two years after the opening of its manufacture, Hysek introduces an extrapolation of the tourbillon in a masterly realisation where transparency is at the heart of an ultra modern design, whose sole ambition is to reveal the mechanical magic of this outstanding movement. Designed, developed and manufactured internally, this exclusive and intensely square calibre with manual winding beats at the rhythm timed by a flying tourbillon endowed with avant-gardist
balance manufactured in titanium — via Watchluxus
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has again been unable to name any Australian laws broken by the controversial WikiLeaks website or its founder Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A single licence for Avast security software has been used by 774,651 people after it went viral on a file-sharing site, according to the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For years we have been told to slip slop slap
to prevent skin cancer.
Now new Australian research has gone further, showing for the first time that daily sunblock use can prevent potentially deadly melanoma — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Israeli police say they have arrested the prime suspect
in the nation’s worst wildfire – a 14-year-old boy who says the blaze was an accident — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Taking a low-dose aspirin every day will reduce your chances of dying from cancer, scientists say today, confirming the over-the-counter pill as the most extraordinary drug yet discovered — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sited precariously on the steep and thickly forested hills of Pelourus Sound overlooking the Marlborough Sound in New Zealand’s South Island, this remote retreat for two brothers posed an enormous challenge to build — via Home Design Find
The director of a bioethics centre funded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane has claimed that Australian advocates of marriage equality’s real agenda is to rid society of the institution of marriage
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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