Script that gives hackers access to user accounts floods Facebook

A widespread hack spread across Facebook early Thursday morning and shows no signs of abating as of yet. It comes in the form of a script that posts heavily profanity-laden wall posts continuously, instructing you that the only way to remove the posts is to click a ‘Remove This App’ link. Unfortunately the link is a hoax and allows the malicious script to access your Facebook account. Your account will then continue to spread the script in the form of similarly formatted wall posts on your friends accounts....

3 min · 461 words · Joseph French

Scrivener 3 for Mac is finally here. And it’s everything writers hoped it would be

TLDR:Scrivener 3 is the writer’s perfect digital editor, using writing and project management features for assembling all your notes, revisions, and other ideas logically your way. Writing is hard enough. But when a writer spends as much time battling the limitations of their word processing app as they do their usual demons like procrastination, writer’s block and general self-loathing, that job gets immeasurably harder. Say what you will about the pluses of Microsoft Word and other writing and project management tools out there, but few, if any, were ever engineered with the writer’s mentality and needs firmly in mind....

3 min · 460 words · Jamie Thompson

Seagate’s new 4TB hard drive is the first one of its kind

Seagate announcedthe immediate release of the 4TB GoFlex Desk external hard driveon Wednesday, claiming the title of being the first company to market with such a high capacity drive. The GoFlex Desk will be available for order from the company’s website at the retail price of $250 starting today and will be available at online retail stores in a month from now. The drive has been given a new design that boasts of a smaller footprint, which will become standard across the entire GoFlex line of products by the end of the month....

2 min · 231 words · Brandon Reed

Seamless acquires MenuPages for a seat at the head of the table

Food delivery and accurate menu descriptions are very important to New Yorkers, and city folk everywhere, which is why the following news is particularly interesting. Today,Seamless, (formerly SeamlessWeb), a New York City born, internationally embraced food ordering delivery and takeout service announced its acquisition ofMenuPages, perhaps the most comprehensive resource for restaurant menus online. In the deal, Seamless is snagging a database of 35,000 menus and more than 175,000 user-generated restaurant reviews from over 50 cities worldwide....

2 min · 391 words · Joseph Stevens

Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning are building a new live video startup called Airtime

Facebook Founding President Sean Parker and Napster co-founder Sean Fanning are partnering up once again to launch a new startup called Airtime. Details are scarce but according to afascinating interview with Forbes, Airtime is a live video site that will meet the need for real-time sharing and communication by allowing users to post videos and react to them live. Parker hopes this will, and we quote, “eliminate loneliness.” These aren’t the first reports of a new partnership between the two technology luminaries....

2 min · 287 words · Kenneth Stephens
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