News reports are circulating on the web and offline that Dropbox has been breached, with millions of passwords in the hands of hackers. But is this the full story? Read the whole story from this link MakeUseOf.com
Hackers claim to have stolen a database of almost 7 million Dropbox log-in credentials, but the company says its service was not hacked and that unrelated websites are the data source. Check this article from this link PCWorld.com
Do you spend a lot of time hanging out on the Internet? There’s no shame in it, we all do! But how much do you know about the Internet? Do you know how much power it takes to keep the Internet running? Or how about how many people actually use the Internet? Check this out from this link MakeUseOf.com
Google Apps admins will be able to communicate with Google tech support staffers via online chat, complementing other existing options, including phone calls. Check out this article, click the link from PCWorld.com
Twitter sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, becoming the latest tech giant to say it should be able to disclose more about official requests for information about its users. More of this news from PCWorld.com.
Earlier suits by Google, Microsoft and others led to a deal under which tech companies can reveal some information about the requests they receive. But Twitter says the restrictions still in place violate its First Amendment rights.
Twitter and other technology companies aren’t allowed to disclose the specific numbers of data requests that government agencies make for information on their users. Click the link to the article PCWorld.com
Spotify is no longer content to just compete with radio, now they’re competing with the idea of even owning music. Check out from MakeUseOf.com
After more than 10 years of requiring you to use your real name, Facebook may soon relax its policy. It took weeks of protests from San Francisco’s LGBTQ and drag queen communities and a mass exodus to newsocial network Ello for Facebook to reevaluate its policy, but now Facebook says it never meant real to mean legal name. More information on this article on PCWorld.com