Facebook apps leaked users' personal data to advertisers, other third parties, for years

A Facebook security hole allowed advertisers and other third parties to access user accounts and personal data, according to a blog post today from internet security firm Symantec. They identify the exposure as having been active for as long as Facebook has offered applications on its platform, beginning in 2007— so, four years. That unintended access included "profiles, photographs, chat, and the ability to post messages and mine personal...

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Triple Cheetah Cute Sound Madness

Now we don’t wanna overload you on cat videos, but we’ve got a perfect pair for you here today. What’s the problem with kittens? They turn into cats and they get a little less cute. But cheetahs seem to have solved this problem by retaining their cuteness into adulthood. Case in point: ...

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Why Microsoft is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion

midnight: Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal. The deal closed a few hours ago.  is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for between $7 billion to $8 billion . The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after we had first reported it yesterday. The announcement is likely to come out later today or tomorrow morning, according to several reports. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft is said...

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AN INTERESTING CHALLENGE FOR YOU

There are more than 100 world known personalities on this painting. If you can name a minimum of 25, you may consider yourself a well-informed pers...

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Frog Baby

On 2006, this bizarre-looking baby was born in Nepal, attracting a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight. The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth. the baby has a condition called anencephaly, a neural tube defect (like the cyclops baby), with no proper brain formati...

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There is a town in Colorado called Dinosaur.

In 1966, Artesia, CO changed its name to ‘Dinosaur’ in order to take advantage of the nearby Dinosaur National Monument. As a result, many of the streets in town have subsequently been given dinosaur names, including: Brontosaurus Boulevard, Stegosaurus Freeway, Triceratops Terrace, Cletisaurus Circle, and Tyrannosaurus Tra...

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The longest full name ever of a person.

The longest full name ever is Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Jack Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft, Sr. Adolph Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft, Sr. was born in 1904 near Hamburg, Germany. was born in 1904 near Hamburg, Germa...

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Toward the end of his life, billionaire Howard Hughes was known for storing his urine in bottles.

During Hughes’ later years he was probably best known for the dramatic eccentricities he displayed. He became extremely germophobic, insisting that anything handed to him be wrapped in tissues. A painkiller addict, Hughes also refused to cut his hair or fingernails and wore Kleenex boxes as shoes. During the last decade of his life he would travel sporadically, working for days without sleep and in complete solitude in darkened hotel rooms. And...

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Mathematician William Shanks spent 15 years calculating the value of pi to 707 places…but he made a mistake on the 528th digit.

Luckily, this discovery was made over 60 years after his death – Shanks would not have been pleased to know that he’d accidentally written a 5 instead of a 4 – which threw off the next 179 calculations! Pi is an irrational number that describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It has an infinite number of digits, but that doesn’t stop mathematicians from calculating it to as many places as they can. Thankfully, now that we’re...

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Some hair bands manufactured in China are made of recycled condoms.

Supposedly the condoms are unused rejected ones, but it’s not clear whether or not they were repurposed after having served their originally intended function. In that case, this could lead to the spread of disease. According to government regulations, the prophylactics (technical term for condoms) should have been sent to a plastics factory and broken down first. Instead, the rubbers were just inserted directly into the center of the hair bands...

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