Not cleaned up. Photo by Newtown grafitti on Flickr. Some rights reserved
A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Old Apple QuickTime code puts IE users in harm's way >> Computerworld
"Apple's failure to clean up old code in QuickTime leaves people running Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerable to drive-by attacks, a Spanish security researcher said on Monday.
"Hackers only need to dupe users into visiting a malicious site hosting exploit code, said Santamarta, who added that his attack code works when someone browses with IE on a machine running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 that has QuickTime 7.x or the older QuickTime 6.x installed."
Microsoft to charge $10 more a year for XBox Live >> VentureBeat
"The cost of streaming Netflix, accessing social networks and playing games online on Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console will go up beginning Nov. 1, just as Sony begins rolling out its premium $50-a-year Playstation Plus service." Then again, $10/year? (Guess what the rise in the UK will be...)
MySpace Announces "Sync With Facebook," Waves White Flag >> Business Insider
You can now let Facebook totally pwn your MySpace account. What's the purpose of MySpace now? As BI puts it, "Sing, fat lady, sing."
"What happens when you mess with the physics of it all?" >> Flickr
As in, what happens when you decide to recreate a scene from the film Inception using Lego? (We'd have shown it here, but it's all rights reserved.)
Twitter Rate Limits Continue To Die >> Techcrunch.com
"Twitter has just announced that it's opening the Site Streams feature of its API up to developers. This is big news, as it allows mobile push services and web apps like Brizzly and Seesmic Web to immediately display new tweets, mentions and other data as soon as they come in, rather than having to deal with Twitter's REST API rate limits." Though some apps including Seesmic, Echofon and Tweetdeck support real-time twitter streams already.
Paul Rubin: Ten Fallacies About Web Privacy >> WSJ.com
Note number 5): "If consumers have less privacy, then someone will know things about them that they may want to keep secret. Most information is used anonymously. To the extent that things are 'known' about consumers, they are known by computers. This notion is counterintuitive; we are not used to the concept that something can be known and at the same time no person knows it. But this is true of much online information."
If you only read one thing today..(@IfYouOnly) on Twitter >> Twitter.com
By Bobbie Johnson, former Guardian Tech writer: a Twitter feed entitled "if you only read one thing today, read this". Worth seeking out.
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