Reuters blog platform and Twitter account hacked

On Friday, Reuters blog platform was hacked with false posts and on Saturday, the @ReutersTech account on Twitter was taken over and renamed @TechMe. False tweets were sent before it was taken down.

There have been two cyber-attacks on Reuters in two days.

On Friday, hackers gained access to a Reuters blogging platform. The false blog posts claimed that the Free Syrian Army was withdrawing from major cities and was acquiring chemical weapons from Libya... read more.

Olympics 2012: Twitter users blamed for disrupting TV coverage

Games organizers are blaming Twitter users for overloading data networks with their tweets, as they attend the London Summer Olympics. According to organizers, the deluge of tweets has already disrupted TV coverage of the cycling road races.

Each competitor's bike has a GPS chip, which transmits vital data to chart their progress in the race. Commentators were apparently unable to advise viewers of the positions and timings of the racers, because the data could not get through from the GPS satellite navigation system... read more.

Twitter hacked? Thousands of user names & passwords on Pastebin

Twitter has allegedly been hacked and tens of thousands of user names and passwords were published on pastebin.com. Should you be worried?

According to RT, the passwords for around 35,000 Twitter accounts were posted on the file-sharing website.

They state that Twitter tweeted: “We’re looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts.”

However, Mashable is reporting that hackers affiliated with Anonymous had claimed this week to have published details of around 55,000 Twitter accounts.... read full article.

Obama's visit was not a secret to Twitter users in Afghanistan

Most people didn't know about Obama's secret visit to Afghanistan until it happened. But Twitter users in the country had notification several hours before his arrival.

Social networks are part of the current world - any news can be spread within seconds to literally anywhere in the world.

It is obvious why President Barack Obama wished to keep his arrival in Afghanistan a secret. With concerns about the Taliban and recent attacks on diplomats and the NATO headquarters in Kabul, care had to be taken to protect the U.S. president. Obama was in the country to sign a post-war agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

However, Afghanistan's Twitter users were online and tweeting about Obama's visit several hours before his plane even touched down... read full article.

Video: 2 lazy 2 rite — 'Smart' tech dumbing us down?

All the latest technology makes it easy to communicate quickly, but is it actually dumbing down users of the various gadgets available?

While the internet is an amazing source of information, and should be used to open up a world of learning and knowledge, is it also causing people to use shortcuts, abbreviations and to not read books?

So many abbreviations are used on the social media and also when texting on a cell phone, for example Instead of typing "you", they type "u".

Teachers are saying that their pupils, instead of reading up in their text books, are copying directly from the internet for their homework assignments, and that what they are copying is not necessarily true... read full article and view video.

Twitter twits and timely Titanic tweets

It seems a whole generation did not realize that the sinking of the Titanic was a true story, and not just a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. And in other news, you can view real-time tweets of the events as they happened in 1912.

Reddit, the social news-sharing web site is always on top of the news. And now the latest topic of conversation is a series of tweets from people who did not know the true story of the Titanic.

The RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. This is considered to be one of the most deadly of peacetime maritime disasters in living history. The result was the death of 1,500 people.... read full article.

Sen. Chuck Grassley calls Obama 'stupid' on Twitter

Washington - A senator from Iowa insulted President Barack Obama on Twitter. David Axelrod took revenge on this with his own responding tweet.

RT reports that the tweet came as a result of Sen. Chuck Grassley's criticism of Obama's stand on the health care law.

Obama, the former Constitutional Law Professor, had stated that he didn't believe that the Supreme Court would take the "unprecedented, extraordinary step" of actually overturning the health care law and Grassley took offence.

The President had recently addressed the health care law debacle, which had made its way to the Supreme Court. Obama himself critiqued "judicial activism" by way of "unelected" judges on the Supreme Court. Many of his conservative opponents were against this, but only Senator Grassley has resorted to actually taking the President up on this.... read full article.