This is the anticipated update that will include Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and Zune Video Marketplace integration. No release date has been issued yet.
For a more detailed look into the hands-on, check out Joystiq’s in-depth coverage.
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ONN on Facebook, Twitter, and college-aged kids
“Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids” is, once again, the Onion News Network at its finest. Enjoy.
Potential Kid Cudi x Bape t-shirt design?
On September 15 clothes, sneakers, and accessory designer Bape will unveil a new t-shirt in collaboration with Kid Cudi in celebration of his new album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, which releases that day. The image above has been spread throughout the Twitterverse and is the most likely candidate for the t-shirt design. If you’re interested in getting your hands on one of these exclusive shirts, be prepared to wait on a long line outside the SoHo NYC Bape store on the 15th.
[Via Twitter]
Microsoft retail store is for realz, see?
On Friday, Microsoft twittered the following tweet (and attached the above image as a twitpic): “Behind these walls in Scottsdale & Mission Viejo, the first Microsoft retail stores.” I wonder if they will be anything like the leaked documents that were uncovered.
Twitter, Facebook under attack
The Twitter service went down today for several hours due to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. What exactly is a DDOS attack, you ask? Let CNET’s Elinor Mills explain:
In the distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the sites, computers that have been compromised by viruses or other malware are instructed by the attacker’s computer to visit the specific Web sites all at the same time and repeatedly. The barrage of connection requests overwhelms the target sites, making it so that legitimate Web traffic can’t get through. Such coordinated attacks require the efforts of tens of thousands or more of hijacked computers, which together form a botnet. Spammers send e-mails with malicious attachments or URLs to millions of people to create botnets.
Basically, computer hackers are putting heavy pressure the servers that run websites and making them fall to their knees. The end result is users not being able to access the service’s main portal to log in. Why did this happen today to Twitter and other related social media sites, though? According to the latest reports, a Georgian blogger who goes by the name “Cyxymu” was targeted by a group of hackers. Cyxymu had accounts on the sites Twitter, Facebook, Live Journal, and Google’s Blogger and YouTube. These sites were affected by a DDOS attack because the group of hackers did not want Cyxymu to voice his opinions on these social websites. Immature, huh? Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook: “You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet.”
Kelly had this to say about the culprit(s): “We’re actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can.” A Google spokesman: “We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DOS attack this morning, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack. Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services.” Twitter and Live Journal have yet to comment on the matter.
[Via CNET]
Jeff Goldblum is alive and well
Contrary to what people have tweeted, actor Jeff Goldblum is still breathing. Shortly after MJ passed away, the Twitterverse rapidly spread what is now a comical rumor that Goldblum had passed away on the set of a film in New Zealand. He did not die and he is currently in Los Angeles. Mr. Stephen Colbert tackles this rumor head on with a special guest (wonder who that may be?).
[Via Mashable]