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RT @blackfeathers: LastPass forcing members to change passwords via @cnet cc:@leolaporte #300 #sn

RT @TechmemeFH: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg buys house in Palo Alto (Mercury News) #twig #300

RT @TechmemeFH: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg buys house in Palo Alto (Mercury News) #twig #300

What’s even more amazing is how Spann’s social media accounts exploded during and after the story. As we wrote a couple weeks ago, he has more social fans and followers than anyone in local TV (60,000 on Facebook and 26,000 on Twitter). When the tornadoes hit, those social channels turned into a reverse torrent of information: thousands of people posted on his Facebook wall and sent him tweets with damage reports, questions and pleas for help. This firehose of social reports — directed at a single person — is unprecedented in local media, and it could signal a new approach to covering big stories.

Amazing book of Italy taken with an iPhone 4 and Camera+

Skype for Mac Has Unpatched Security Flaw [ALERT]

IPad 2 frenzy in China

I Can't Stop Laughing Because HTC Is Charging $80 for Its Tablet Stylus [Wtf]

Visualized: Google searches around the globe

Spafford told the subcommittee that, according to security mailing lists he subscribes to, "individuals who work in security and participate in the Sony network" had learned "several months ago" that PSN was hosted on servers running "very old versions of Apache software that were unpatched and had no firewall installed."

GP-B confirmed two of the most profound predictions of Einstein's universe, having far-reaching implications across astrophysics research. Likewise, the decades of technological innovation behind the mission will have a lasting legacy on Earth and in space."

"Employees at Foxconn facilities in China, used to manufacture the iPhone and iPad, were forced to sign a pledge not to commit suicide after over a dozen staff killed themselves over the last 16 months. The revelation is the latest in a series of findings about the treatment of workers at Foxconn plants, where staff often work six 12-hour shifts a week, 98 hours of overtime in a month, and live in dormitories that look and feel like prison blocks."

The main take-away seems to be that, like a plane crash, it takes more than one thing going wrong to cause an accident — in this case, two major natural disasters, each of which exceeded the plant's design spec, occurring within the space of an hour, compounded by failure to implement a safety system that is standard elsewhere. Despite which, they managed to dodge the bullet (for the most part: it's still going to take billions of dollars and several years to clean up the plant).

"A possible landmark ruling in one of the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the US may spell the end of the 'pay-up-or-else-schemes' that have targeted over 100,000 Internet users in the last year. District Court Judge Harold Baker has denied a copyright holder the right to subpoena the ISPs of alleged copyright infringers, because an IP-address does not equal a person. Among other things, Judge Baker cited a recent child porn case where the US authorities raided the wrong people, because the real offenders were piggybacking on their Wi-Fi connections.

Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us.

Internet marketing experts say Teleflora, FTD, 1800Flowers.com and ProFlowers are trying to elevate their Web sites in search results with a strategy that violates Google’s guidelines. The flower companies deny it. But all four have links on Web sites that are riddled with paid links, many of which include phrases like “mothers day flowers,” “mothers day arrangements” and “cheap mothers day flowers.” Anyone who clicks on those backlinks, as they are known, gets sent to the floral retailer who paid for them.

But first we take some time to look back at last year’s I/O which made a big splash at the time — and can now probably be best described as a big flop. Google TV, Google Music, Chrome OS. Etc, etc, etc… Will this year’s be more of the same? Or will Google’s mouth actually be able to write checks that their body can cash this time around? Stay tuned…