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Thanks to a new policy by the Department of Defense, members of the US Military will now have limited access to social media sites.

eldavojohn writes "Move over Russell Crowe, an anonymous hacker in Latvia is being hailed as a real life modern Robin Hood.

angry tapir writes "More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet.

rastos1 and several other readers noted that the SSL vulnerability we discussed a couple of weeks back, which some researchers had claimed was too theoretical to worry about, has now been demonstrated

Om and Frank Eliason of Comcast

Twitter is a remarkably flexible application -– an efficient news service, a way to keep up with friends, a replacement for RSS feeds, a resource for links worth sharing, a broadcast medium and two-

MySpace said today that it’s rolling out a new feature in beta that lets U.S.

Seesmic has unveiled new features to its desktop application, which helps you manage your Facebook and Twitter accounts, including the ability for users to set up a column to follow Facebook Fan pages

Social networks have been copying from one another for years, but the updates that Facebook, Twitter and Ning announced yesterday took such mimicry to new heights.

As platforms pop up everywhere, the API, or application programming interface, is the bridge linking data on Salesforce.com to an app built in Google’s AppEngine — or it’s the link between Twitt

inkslinger77 notes a Computerworld interview with Martin Odersky on the Scala language, which is getting a lot of attention from its use on high-profile sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn.

DikSeaCup writes "Arbor Network's Jose Nazario, an expert on botnets, discovered what looks to be the first reported case of hackers using Twitter to control botnets.

Twitter reached out to the enterprise market for the first time yesterday with the unveiling of Twitter 101, a web-based guide aimed at helping companies understand how to use the real-time microblogg

When you’re looking to find out what folks are saying about hot political events such as the protests in Iran — or on the more trivial end of the spectrum, the new Harry Potter movie — searchin

Twitter got an interesting tech support call from a highly unique customer today: The Obama Administration, via the U.S.