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Yahoo! Lap Dance Fiasco, Taliban Joins YouTube

by Warren Riddle on October 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM



This morning's other big tech headlines....
  • An uproar over Yahoo!'s Open Hack Day festivities in Taiwan has forced the Web behemoth to issue an apology. Apparently, Yahoo! felt the need to send all the attendant nerds into a geeky frenzy with a crew of scantily clad, Hack Girl lap dancers. Next year, in the interest of gender equality, the company should probably force the moron who planned the shenanigans to dance around in a day-glo Speedo. [From: All Things Digital]
  • It may despise freedom and the United States, but the Taliban is certainly enjoying our Constitutional right to free speech. The terrorist group has apparently been uploading videos to its own YouTube account, and has even created an English-language Web site hosted on U.S. servers. Hopefully, the government is keeping a close eye on the group's activities instead of encroaching on the liberties of U.S. citizens, alone. [From: The Huffington Post]
  • Break out the tin-foil hats and watch out for black helicopters, people. In Big-Brother-comes-to-fruition news, the CIA has invested money in Visible Technologies, a firm that monitors social networking sites, blog posts, and other public Web activities. But, seriously, we love you, CIA, and think this a great idea. Seriously. [From: Wired]
  • It's time for everyone to update that (real) anti-virus software. Security firm Symantec recently announced that 40 million people have been scammed by so-called "scareware." The company now claims that the fake anti-virus software, peddled as Antivirus 2010 and Spyware Guard 2008, is still loaded on millions of computers, and that the scammers have earned as much as $300,000 a month from the pop-up scheme. [From: Reuters]
  • Facebook is rolling out yet more changes this week, adding group updates to users' news feeds. Sure, this might just be a copycat move, considering Twitter's implementation of a group, or list, feature last week. But at least Facebook is adapting and not slipping away into obscurity like some other, formerly popular social networking sites. [From: CNET]
  • Studies have shown that excessive gaming can lead to finger deformities in children, and now an 11-year-old boy, surveying his classmates, has determined that young fervent gamers experience significantly more joint and wrist pain than do older casual gamers. Maybe it's time for Nintendo to bring back that awesome, '80s, hands-free controller. [From: Live Science]

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