The Guardian – Trafigura: A few tweets and freedom of speech is restored
The Guardian story announcing that it had been restricted by an existing high court order from reporting certain parliamentary proceedings had been published online for just a matter of minutes before internet users began tearing apart the gag.
The Times – Britain to get high-tech ‘virtual villages’ in 2010
A new network of communities linked together by super-fast broadband is to go on trial in the UK next year, according to Nick Appleyard, Lead Technologist at the government-funded Technology Strategy Board.
CRN – Internet dominated by 30 companies
The internet has undergone radical infrastructural and economic changes in the past two years, leading to the dominance of just 30 large companies, according to a major new study from Arbor Networks and the University of Michigan.
IT PRO – Cyber criminals surfing the Google Wave
Cyber criminals are targeting people interested in Google Wave with email scams and websites filled with affiliate-based advertising. Security analyst Rik Ferguson told IT PRO that he first noticed a scam on Twitter. Users that click the link were sent to a website that promised a Google Wave invite within the hour, but only if they gave up their Twitter username and email address.
The Register – Polish government cyberattack blamed on Russia
A largely unsuccessful attack on Polish government systems last month reportedly originated in Russia. Details are scarce but it seemed that the attack coincided with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two. Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that the assault targeted Polish government systems and took place at the same time Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Poland.
Computing.co.uk – Sorry about the “//”, says Tim Berners-Lee
The inventor of the worldwide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has admitted that he wishes he had not bothered with the “//” prefix in all web site address in an interview with the New York Times. He said that the double slash was a programming convention in 1989 when he first wrote the paper that led to the creation of the web, but it “turned out to not be really necessary.”
BBC – Youth ‘cannot live’ without web
A survey of 16 to 2 year olds has found that 57 per cent of them feel they “couldn’t live” without the internet. The report, published by online charity YouthNet, also found that four out of five young people used the web to look for advice.
ComputerWorldUK – Twitter users warned not to change passwords
Twitter users should refrain from changing their log-in data until further notice or else risk getting locked out of their accounts. Twitter is investigating instances of users who have lost access to their accounts after modifying their usernames, passwords or email addresses, the microblogging company said on Tuesday. Until the problem is resolved, Twitter users shouldn’t modify their log-in data, according to an official posting on Twitter’s Status website.
