Friday, June 8, 2012

Pre-caffeine tech: Online insecurity, atomic bombs!?

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Our?pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today.

Got?an an account on LinkedIn or eHarmony? Change your password now! They've been hacked.?

Also, be on the lookout for any notice supposedly from Facebook about privacy and its IPO -- it's not from the social network, and it's a hoax. Do your yourself ??and your friends ??a favor and don't pass it on.

Here's a fake Gmail Android app that spies and steals personal information.?

Oh! And some of?y'all are nasty!?Nearly 1 in 5 Americans who have a smartphone say they have used it for sexting, sharing explicit photos or text messages with others, according to a new survey.

Foursquare rolled out its redesign today.?What's changing? Well ... a lot. The app's been torn down?and rebuilt from the ground up. Along with allowing you to?share your location, the app also?guides you to new places.

Did you notice anything odd with your Internet connection on Wednesday? Probably not, but the Internet started changing in a big way under the hood, with websites and Internet service providers turning on a new technology to transmit data.?

In a surprising report released Wednesday, the International Data Corporation (IDC) is estimating that Windows Phone will overtake the Apple iPhone by 2016, becoming the second most popular mobile operating system under Google?s Android. ?

Zombies, aliens, hot dogs! Here's a?trip into the heart of?the?Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Oh, and Bulgarian?archaeologists?have a bunch of two centuries-old "vampire" skeletons!

Now I am become death -- Destroyer of Worlds! Check out "Trinity: A graphic history of the first atomic bomb."

? compiled by Helen A.S.?Popkin, who invites you to join her on??Twitter?and/or?Facebook.?Also,?Google+.

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