A number of major sites have had theirDNS settingshacked todayand many visitors redirected to a Turkish hacker’s website. Websites including The Daily Telegraph, UPS, Vodafone, National Geographic, The Register and others are all currently experiencing disruption accordingZone-H, a site that monitors website defacements. A screenshot of where users are being redirected to can be found below (viaPaul Mutton). The headline message in Turkish reads “Turkish Security, Come to Papa.” The IP Address for the rogue site is 68....

While I would normally refrain from reporting on any sort of celebrity appearances — and Google+ seems to have had a lot of them lately, promoting the likes of Will.I.Am, Felicia Day etc on its front page — I believe I can make an exception this time around. This is the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu we’re talking about here. “His Holiness the Dalai Lama will have a conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu by live video over a Hangout as part of the Inaugural Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 8, 2011, starting at 10:30am South African time (GMT+2....

“The Art of Making Money” is the sort of book title you might see in an airport bookshop. But the (now not so) “Young British Artist” Damien Hirst has taken it rather literally. Hirst’s latest art project, calledThe Currency, comprises 10,000 A4 sized pieces of handmade paper covered in very similar but not identical coloured spots. The back of each is numbered and signed by the artist with an arty title....

Daps’emis a social service built around the idea of ‘virtual fist bumps’ – giving people who’ve done something you like some deserved recognition. Launched at the Techonomy3 conference in Tel Aviv in March, Daps’em is currently available for iPhone. As weexplainedat the time, it allows you to nominate someone, give details of what they’ve done that you appreciate and where it happened – thus creating a ‘Dap’. Others can then comment on your ‘Daps’ or show their approval with a ‘Yay’ – the equivalent of a Facebook’s ‘Like’....

In January 2018, Kelly Ross, a mother of three in Washington, D.C., saw a charge from the children’s education app, ABCmouse, which her kids hadn’t used for nearly four years. She thought she had canceled her subscription and called the company asking why she’d received a bill for about $50. She remembered the company responded that she should have read the fine print. It wasn’t until Ross called the company out on Twitter that she got a refund, but the experience still frustrates her years later....