25,727 passwords from (one of the many) Sony breaches one at a time, frame by frame. If there's a pause, it means multiple people used the same password. "[T]he sound is my computer reading the beginning of the list sped up to 13% of the original length." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXbosbLBBQ (via The Consumerist) … [Read more...]
Spotify Is Coming To The US – Is It Too Little, Too Late?
Thanks to music licensing deals, Spotify, a music streaming site, has been exclusive to Europe since its launch in 2008. I remember hearing great things about it and wishing it was available in the USA. That time is now upon us and Spotify is coming to the US in the coming months. … [Read more...]
Amazon More Than Keeping Up With The Cloud Joneses – Announces Unlimited Music Storage and iPad App
It is getting to look like stormy skies with all these cloud services around. Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music Beta, and iCloud are all offering space to store your music. Amazon just officially upped the ante with a press release tonight. If you subscribe to a paid Cloud Drive (the cheapest being $20/year for 20GB), it now includes unlimited space for .mp3 and .m4a files. … [Read more...]
WordPress 3.2 Checks That Your Browser Is Up To Date With Browse Happy
Listed under the Enhanced Browser Compatibility section of the version 3.2 entry in the WordPress Codex, I didn't notice the browser check until updating a different WordPress site from another computer with Firefox 4. After updating to WordPress 3.2, a message appeared on the Dashboard to inform me my browser is out of date. … [Read more...]
Fox News Acknowledges Twitter Account Hacking; Removes Tweets
Over the weekend, the verified @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account was hacked, as reported earlier. Fox News confirmed the hack in a story today and added some details: Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports were incorrect, of course, and the president was spending the July 4 holiday with his family at … [Read more...]