Facebook bug results in messages on friends’ walls that cannot be deleted

Who would have thought that something like a social network could eventually end up with a bug? Sure, Facebook had some sort of snafu in recent memory, and perhaps here is another red-faced moment for the social networking giant. It seems that a Facebook bug has appeared, where once you have blocked a particular person on Facebook, he or she is unable to see whatever content you’ve posted on the social network – and this includes posts that you have made to their own wall. Sounds simple enough in theory, and it did make us wonder what took the world so long to discover such a “bug”.

I guess you cannot really call it a bug per se, but rather, this is working around the rules of the game. Basically, the only way either party is able to view the post again is this – the block must be removed. This could be a particular touchy issue, assuming someone has a photo or other incriminating evidence against someone else, or just someone who wants to flat out act maliciously towards their “target”.

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Zombie Facebook fans hacked down, zombie apocalypse staved off for now

If there ever was a Resident Evil style outbreak in the real world, and the undead roamed the earth, you can call upon Mark Zuckerberg and company to help exterminate the zombie population. After all, they have had experience by removing zombie Facebook fans, causing a severe disruption in “Likes” throughout the social network environment. For instance, Rihanna is down by 22,000 fans, and the same applies to Shakira. Lady Gaga has 32,000 fewer people liking her as of today, and Zynga’s Texas HoldEm Poker might want to fold after knowing that they are down by 100,000 fans.

All of this happened because Facebook began to get serious and crack down on fake users, fake accounts, and fake Likes. This effort has been ongoing for a while, where Facebook claims that this is to make sure that only real people, made out of flesh and blood, are connecting with real brands. The average figure for removal of Likes on any Page stands at under 1% at this point in time.

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Asus teases Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for Transformer Prime and Infinity

When it comes to the Android operating system, many people do talk about the issue of fragmentation. While it is not that serious, it is still a problem that should be addressed by Google as well as the slew of hardware manufacturers who release products that run on Android. Well, Asus has their fair share of Android-powered devices, where they have just teased the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update to arrive on the Transformer Prime as well as Infinity in a matter of 3 days.

That would translate to approximately 72 hours of patient waiting, so owners of the Transformer Pad Prime TF201 (otherwise known as the Eee Pad Transformer Prime) and the Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 might want to grab some popcorn and enjoy the waiting period. All good things come to those who wait, after all, so if you have waited this long, what is a few more hours between good friends, right? Better late than never should be taken as a consolation this time around. [Facebook Page]

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Freedom House: Estonia is world number one for Freedom of the Net

According to Freedom House, they have ranked Estonia as the world’s number one in terms of Freedom for the Net. Now, this is not a particular achievement that happened for the first time this year, but rather, for the third year in a row, Estonia picked up the gong for being the world’s number one country for Internet and digital media freedom.

NGO Freedom House (@FreedomHouseDC) conducted their third in a series of a comprehensive studies of Internet freedom in 47 countries worldwide, ranking them using various criteria such as Obstacles to Access, Limits on Content, and Violation of User Rights. It does seem as though Estonia has a blueprint that many other countries could use to follow if they want to climb up the rankings, but I believe that North Korea and Iran would be pretty happy being right smack at the bottom of the list. Hey, if you are going to block YouTube, Google and Gmail, there should not be any reason for even a consideration on this particular list. Will there be other countries that aspire to knock Estonia off their pedestal next year? We will be watching closely.

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US Air Force uses Samsung Series 7 Slate in bases

Samsung Series 7 SlateWhen a heavyweight like the US Air Force picks up the Samsung Series 7 Slate in bulk for action across worldwide bases, you know for sure that this is serious business that we are talking about here. This is the first network slate tablet blanket purchase agreement, where it will help deliver to the USAF standard desktop configuration implementation of Windows 7 Professional, in addition to supporting a slew of similar programs as though you were using a full-size PC, albeit enjoying working on a slim, light tablet form-factor.

Measuring just 0.5” thin while sporting a responsive 11.6” touchscreen display, the Series 7 Slate will pave the way for convenient mobile use, but you can also dock it or hook it up to an optional Bluetooth keyboard for a far more portable and comfortable PC functionality. Each Samsung Slate for the USAF will be delivered with a Trusted Computing Group certified, Trusted Platform Module 1.2 chip, adding to the network administrator’s peace of mind when it comes to security detail. [Press Release]

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Dospara Galleria SEVENCORE HX Gaming PC

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The Galleria SEVENCORE HX is the newest member to Dospara’s gaming PC line-up. Powered by a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-3770 processor, the system is packed with an Intel H77 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 660 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 550W power supply and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (SP1) OS. Price itself is set at 89,980 Yen (about $1,156). [Product Page]

ASUS F2A85-M uATX Motherboard

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Here’s the latest uATX motherboard from ASUS, the F2A85-M. Based on AMD A85X FCH chipset, the board supports for FM2 processors and has four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 64GB RAM), an integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics, two PCIe 2.0 x16 (x16/x4) slots, one PCIe 2.0 x1 slot and one PCI slot. Connectivity-wise, it offers seven SATA 6.0 Gbps, one eSATA 6.0 Gbps, four USB 3.0, ten USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [ASUS]

FTC: Rent-to-own laptops spied on folks’ intimate moments

The FTC claims that up to 7 rental companies as well as a software firm agreed to cease the usage of spyware which actually obtained unauthorized, recorded confidential and personal information, ranging from logged computer keystrokes to something closer to home – captured webcam images of children, individuals in partially undressed poses, as well as the goings-on behind bedroom doors.

The rent-to-own companies actually used software that was provided by now-defunct software firm DesignerWare LLC in order to assist in the tracking and recovering of rented computers. The FTC claimed that these companies had breached more than just customers’ trust, as they went beyond searching for stolen computers, touting that “an agreement to rent a computer doesn’t give a company license to access consumers’ private emails.”

Perhaps it would be prudent to just make sure that the webcam on your laptop remains taped over as you can never quite tell who might be watching.

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Microsoft Windows Update phishing alert

For those of you who eat, live and breathe the Internet, do be aware that the next time your email inbox receives an email from privacy@microsoft.com, do not pass go, do not collect $200, do nothing other than delete that email. Chances are very high you would have then avoided the efforts of a phishing scam which was specially designed to steal Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live and AOL passwords, at least this is what the good people over at Naked Security are saying.

Naked Security is a blog run by IT security firm Sophos, and they claim that the email entitled, “Microsoft Windows Update,” urges recipients to verify their email accounts through sending their personal login information. Quite a no-brainer when you think about it, but during momentary lapses of concentration, who can say what might happen, right?

Dear Windows User,

It has come to our attention that your Microsoft windows Installation records are out of date. Every Windows installation has to be tied to an email account for daily update.

This requires you to verify the Email Account. Failure to verify your records will result in account suspension. Click in the Verify button below and enter your login information on the following page to Confirm your records.

VERIFY

Thank you,
Microsoft Windows Team.

The above is what the email generally says, so you have been forewarned!

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ASUS F2A85-V PRO ATX Motherboard

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ASUS hits back by showing off their latest ATX motherboard, the F2A85-V PRO. Based on AMD A85X FCH chipset, the board supports for FM2 processors and features four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 64GB RAM), an integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 series graphics, three PCIe 2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8) slots, one PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode) slot, two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots and two PCI slots. In terms of connectivity ports, it has seven SATA 6.0 Gbps, one eSATA 6.0 Gbps, six USB 3.0, ten USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. [ASUS]