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Hackers No Longer Work Weekends [Factoid]
Hacking is a tiring occupation: all that time at a keyboard, staring at a screen, makes for a tired cyber criminal. Now, analysis of the frequency of malicious emails suggests that, over the last year, hackers have been taking more and more time off at weekends. Slackers.More »
Google Chrome Just Beat Out Internet Explorer as the Most Used Browser [Factoid]
It appears that Google Chrome finally overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser last week—at least according to statistics fromthe web analytics service Statcounter. As TNW points out, measuring this kind of usage is hardly a perfect science, but as you can se...
We Upload 72 Hours of Video to YouTube Every Minute [Video]
YouTube does pretty well for itself. So well, in fact, that between us we upload 72 hours of video to the site every minute—a number which has gone up by 50 percent in the last year.More »
Facebook Will Offer Up 50 Million More Shares Than Expected [Facebook]
Facebook has announced that it will be selling an extra 50.6 million shares, at a price likely to fall between $34 and $38 per share,. That should snag them at least another $13.1 billion—and probably push their final valuation north of the expected $100 million.More »
James Bond Has Dodged 4,662 Bullets During His Fictional Career [Factoid]
James Bond is the kind of man who gets shot at an awful lot. In fact, he's lucky to even be alive because, during his 22-film Hollywood career, the secret agent has managed to dodge a total of 4,662 bullets.More »
Over 13 Million US Facebook Users Don't Use Any Privacy Controls [Factoid]
Over 13 million Facebook users don't use—or don't even know about—any of Facebook's privacy settings, according to a new study by independent, non-profit Consumer Reports. That is a lot of users freely sharing information with people they don't know. [Consumer Reports]More »
Religious Websites Are Worse for Your Computer than Porn Sites [Factoid]
"I have a virus." "Stop visiting all those porn sites!" Ha. Ha. But also pretty much every conversation about malware ever, right? Well, Symantec's 17th Internet Threat Security Report found another genre of sites that, on average is worse than porn: Religion.More »
The Flashback Trojan Made Its Makers $10,000 a Day [Factoid]
If you've ever wondered why people write malware, it's just like anything else - it's all about the money. Symantec has worked out that the evil-doing bottom-feeders behind that nasty Flashback Trojan, which caught the Mac world with its pants down, were raking in around $10,000 a day.More »...
We Waste a Billion Gallons of Gas a Year Because We're So Fat [Factoid]
Heavier cars use more fuel. Now some bright spark has calculated that the US uses one billion gallons more gas every year than if the entire population had remained at the average weight of the 1960s. For every extra pound added to the average weight, the country uses another 39 million gallons o...
Samsung Overtakes Nokia as the World's Biggest Phone Manufacturer [Factoid]
Samsung has just toppled Nokia's 14-year run as the world's biggest vendor of mobile phones in terms of shipments. In the first quarter of 2012 Samsung shipped 93.5 million handsets—36 per cent more than a year earlier—overtaking the Finnish phone giant who shipped a mere 82.7 million...
