Category: tech
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I’m calling PSN’s bluff
After leaving their customers’ personal information wide open to attack on unsecured servers running ancient software, Sony’s lawyers decided to simply make their customers sign away the right to make claims for damage done by Sony’s negligence. If you don’t want to do so, you must send a “clear statement” about it via postal mail. […]
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The Web is the best app store
Funny how things have come full circle: Apple releases iPhone, tells the market that third parties should make web apps The market isn’t ready for web apps, pressures Apple into releasing a native app SDK and distribution channel The market can’t tolerate Apple’s control over the app store, circumvents it with web apps (Kindle and Readability moved to web […]
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Important security note for WordPress users
There’s a vulnerability in a piece of software called timthumb.php that is used by some self-hosted WordPress themes and plugins for image manipulation (not WordPress.com.) If you have shell access to your web server, go to your web root directory and run: find -name timthumb.php (If you can’t do it through the shell, check your […]
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Google ending experimental “labs” offerings
While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead. Translation: “We need to leave ‘release early, release often’ behind.” I wonder if it’s because they catch too much flak for exposing prerelease features […]
Zeke Weeks 