Today in snippets.

We have a birthday, a worm targeting real stuff and why I want to change my name.

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This Day In Computer History (Yesterday – 22 September)

September 22, 1986

Computer Code Could Be Copyrighted

In a decisive victory for the makers of a computer’s insides, a federal judge ruled that code used to run computers and other electronic devices could be copyrighted like printed material.

Via ComputerHistory.org

Google News Turns 8!

At first I read the headline as “Google turns 8!” and I had a bit of a braindead moment. Could it be that Google is only eight years old?

Of course not. Today is Google News’s birthday. Still an impressive achievement.

Go read about it at Google News Blog

Stuxnet worm ‘targeted high-value Iranian assets’

Ooh it seams the Cyber Cold War is heating up.

It is possible that the world now has its first virus aimed at real world infrastructure. Its target? Iran, of course.

There is some speculation that this thing was created by a country as opposed to a group of crackers.

Whatever the case, BBC has the story.

Revealed: The ‘hacker’ who started the ‘mouseover worm’ that took down Twitter – a 17-year-old Australian schoolboy

He wrote a piece of code that caused your browser to do certain things on mouseover, like launch a page, or – in this case – retweet a twitter message.

He is not a hacker, he discovered flaw and wrote a piece of code to see what would happen. He is 17 – cut him some slack. Worse, and here Twitter should man up, is that this flaw was reported to Twitter by a Japanese security researcher a month or so ago, and they patched it. Problem is the patch was not included in an update and the problem resurfaced again.

Read the whole saga, including how porno companies decided to shaft (sorry) Twitter users by adding auto popups and redirects to tweets.

Via Dailymail.co.uk

Schmidt says changing identities comment ‘was a joke’

I have the urge to do this, so here goes:

“Orly?”

Now let me expand” spin the PR all you want bro, you said it, and I don’t believe this turn around. Sure Colbert is satire, but there is the old adage “Many a truth is spoken in jest.”

From now on I shall be known as “Captain Awesome,” and Elzje as “Awesome Woman.” Try Googling that and getting anything on me, fool.

Via Techradar.com

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