Category Archives: NEWSBYTES

Got Some Dark Secrets You Want to Share?

Anonymous Chatting, Through a Simple Service   Anonyfish was introduced in February and hosts around 600 messages each day. Secret, the popular mobile application, lets people share their deepest, darkest — and occasionally funniest — confessions anonymously, with their friends. The application lets people see other people’s ‘secrets’ and comment on them, but it doesn’t yet include a way for… Read More »

Homeland Security: Don’t Use Internet Explorer

  Homeland Security: Don’t use IE due to bug SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising Americans not to use the Internet Explorer Web browser until a fix is found for a serious security flaw that came to light over the weekend. The bug was announced on Saturday by FireEye Research Labs, an Internet security software company based… Read More »

AOL Hack Causes Zombie Spam

AOL hack causes zombie spam Long discarded AOL email accounts come back from the dead — to spam you. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Whether or not you use AOL, a recently exposed mass hack of the company’s network promises trouble for everybody. AOL (AOL) users: Hackers stole “a significant number” of email addresses, passwords, contact lists, postal addresses and answers to… Read More »

Windows 9: Coming Sooner Than You Might Think

Windows 9 release date, beta, preview, start menu & screenshots   Windows 9 Threshold: All you need to know about the next Windows When is Windows 9 coming out and what can you expect? We take a look at the expected Windows 9 release date, leaked Windows 9 screenshots and how the Windows 9 Start Menu looks set… Read More »

Americans Can’t Pass the US Citizenship Test but They Can Vote

Awkward: Americans can’t pass the US citizenship test In a video posted earlier this week, members of the Immigrant Archive Project — an oral history project that collects the stories of American immigrants — did a series of “man-on-the-street” interviews with passersby in Miami. The twist: they asked questions from the US citizenship test that every immigrant is… Read More »