It’s unclear how many user passwords were leaked, but the companies are advising to change them.
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From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: Nasdaq plans $40 million Facebook loss payout
Nasdaq said Wednesday that it plans to spend $40 million to compensate trading firms for losses caused by glitches that delayed Facebook’s debut.
From Gizmodo: LinkedIn Transmits Personal Data in Plain Text (Update: And Leaks Passwords, Too!)
The Next Web is reporting that LinkedIn’s iOS app collects personal data from its calendar—without explicit consent—and sends it back to the company’s servers in plain text. More »
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What would happen if you ripped out all the TVs and associated wiring from a plane, and gave everyone an iPad instead? Well, we just found out: the plane becomes 7 percent lighter, and saves an awful lot of fuel as a result. More »
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From Gizmodo: It Would Cost $37 Billion Per Year to Pre-Screen YouTube Videos
Last week, we reported that a staggering 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Now, engineer Craig Mansfield has worked out how much it would cost per year to pre-screen all that video for copyright infringements—and the answer is close to that of Google’s annual revenue. More »
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From Autoblog: Video: 2013 Toyota Prius C doesn’t get much love from Consumer Reports
Filed under: Budget, Hybrid, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota
Consumer Reports has panned the 2012 Toyota Prius C in a new video review that urges car shoppers to get a used regular Prius over the new baby model, “it’s a much better car overall,” said Mike Quincy in the review.
The problems Toyota ran into in creating the Prius C appear to be in making it cheaper, according to Consumer Reports. The list of adjectives during the video review included: “lackluster,” “hard plastic,” “cheap materials,” “dead steering” and “slow.”
Toyota may see those words as misplaced modifiers compared to the glowing recommendations the larger mainstream Prius has received in its decade-long Synergy drive to becoming the eco-poster child for hypermiling greenies out to save the Earth and ride in California HOV lanes with a single person aboard. (HOV access for most gas-electric hybrids has been discontinued in the Golden State.)
While the Prius C may start at $18,995, its price climbs quickly and its value does not, Consumer Reports said. A new regular Prius starts at $24,000.
However, the bad news from Consumer Reports hasn’t hurt Prius C sales, which began in April. During its first month, Toyota sold 4,782 Prius C models, outpacing the other Prius variant, the family-minded Prius V, as well as the subcompact Yaris, which donates its platform for the Prius C.
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From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: Broadcasters sue Dish over ad-skipping DVR
Three television studios and Dish Network are suing one another over an ad-skipping digital video recorder technology that the satellite TV company debuted earlier this month.