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Privacy policies are generally considered to be good and important, when it comes to social media platforms, with which all manner of personal details can be stored. Protecting ones identity is important and ought to be taken seriously. ...Except when said identity is concealed, and said individual makes public threats of mass murder. Then you definitely want to know exactly who to go after. Privacy? Nuh uh. Nope. Privacy has left the building. All of which is to say, it is absolutely absurd that Twitter refuses to cooperate with the NYPD and disclose the identity of the person behind the account that sent out a string of highly concerning tweets threatening an Aurora-style massacre at the Broadway's Longacre theatre, where former professional boxer Mike Tyson is currently starring in his own one-man show(!?) "Gosh I'm still making this hit list damn I wanna kill a lot of people," warned one such tweet, from the account which has since been suspended. "Mass murd...

Aug 4, 2012 12:30 AM   Our Twitter account was hacked a few hours ago. We have the situation under control, don't worry. But Gizmodo really hates to delete tweets. Really. It's an actual policy: do not do it. Not for typos, not for nothin'. In this case, though, the tweets were grossly offensive and hugely misrepresentative. We deleted. I'll admit: On my personal account, I've deleted a tweet or two, or a few, in my day. Only ever for a stupid typo or a broken link, though. But I have a friend who curates his Twitter account like a zen garden. Prunes in like a rose shrub. It's lean, it's highly selective. He deletes more than he tweets. I guess he just uses the platform differently. What about you? View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Try to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day, and your brain could melt. Let us ease your fatigue with a selection of the best videos of the week. Enjoy! I've seen plenty of time lapse videos from the International Space Station. None of them were even near the amazing beauty of this one. Play it at full screen and high definition-just the opening Star Wars-like shot will leave you in awe. Scientists have managed to build an artificial jelly fish entirely from rat cells, which can pulse and swim when exposed to an electric field, just like its living counterpart. When you're watching the Spiderman movies, you hardly ever stop to think about whether Peter Parker could actually physically swing from buildings on threads of silk. C'mon! Suspend your disbelief! It's a superhero movie! Jeez. Except as this mathematics professor points out, it's freaking possible. This is the 155mm Field Howitzer 77. It's one of the deadliest artille...

Jul 27, 2012 4:40 PM   If you tend to be click-happy, you better be careful on Twitter today. There's a malware epidemic going around and it seems to think it has your picture. The malicious tweets come in two varieties, both in the form of @ mentions. There are ones that ask "It's you on photo?" paired with a dangerous link, and also ones that ask the vaguer, but less grammatically jarring question "It's about you?" also with a link. Don't click; it's not about you. Both variations are particularly bad news because unlike normal Twitter spam which sends you off to some extremely sketchy Internet store or something, these links will load your computer up with the Blackhole exploit kit. Once the exploit is on your computer, it'll index all the vulnerabilities it can find in your browser plugins and the like, and then set you up with a customized set of malware just for you. It's not the first Twitter malware wave, and it certainly won...

Turn the universe into your Twitterverse. Instead of broadcasting your 140 characters to just your followers, why not get your point across by broadcasting to infinity and beyond? Kickstarter campaign SkyCube is trying to make that possible, but first the group needs help to get the satellite off the ground. SkyCube founder Tim DeBenedictis is hoping crowdsourcing will get enough funding for liftoff, and in return for investing, SkyCube will let you write a tweet to be sent to and from the satellite. SEE ALSO: Your Tweets to Be Beamed Across Space. Will ET RT? In addition, if you invest and get the SkyCube app you will receive the photos the SkyCube is taking while in orbit. They’ve raised a littler over $10,000 already, but that’s only one-eighth of their final goal. SkyCube is one of many projects trying to get earthly beings into the unknown. Another Kickstarter project is working to send investors’ science experiments aboard a spacecraft, in an effort to make “space science” open ...