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If you’re an ardent user of the internet, chances are that you have stumbled upon Reddit once or twice. This social news site is also home to Redditors, who are dedicated and quite frankly, addicted to this website. Today Reddit announced that it has built a new privacy policy from the ground up, and this policy goes in effect from May 15th. The new policy is a lot simpler and more to-the-point than the previous one.

The policy is clear on crucial elements and aims to simply describe to users how Reddit handles their data on the site and the steps that they take to ensure a user’s privacy. This new policy was created with the help of Lauren Gelman, a lawyer based in San Francisco who has previously worked at the EFF, ACM and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. The policy goes in effect on the 15th because Reddit wants users to have ample time to go through this new policy and really understand what it means. The full text of Reddit’s new privacy policy can be found here.

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The self-styled “front page of the Internet” was not working for some time, as the site itself underwent a flood of traffic that has been attributed to what is known as a “distributed denial of service attack”, or a malicious DDoS attack in short, which resulted in the social site’s servers huffing and puffing away as it tried to keep up. Needless to say, there were certain quarters who speculated that this could be due to the massive Boston manhunt traffic, but Reddit says otherwise. Not much information has been released on who is responsible behind the DDoS attack, as nobody decided to step forward and proudly (I use the term here rather loosely) announce that they are the ones behind it.

According to a Reddit employee who called himself “alienth,” he claimed that “the load from the Boston incident was measurable. The attack which is ongoing is orders of magnitude larger. We’re mitigating it the best we can.” Partial service has since been restored after its outage happened, and as at press time, Reddit is purring away like a newly serviced engine. We have seen our fair share of outages in the past, too, and are glad that none of them proved to be beyond redemption.

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Apple’s retail stores usually have that clean and surgical look to them, but it fits well with the rest of their products. That being said, if you visit an Apple retail store in the future and have a burning desire to sit on those comfortable-looking black seats usually reserved for kids, you might want to rethink that. According to a post on Reddit by an ex-Apple employee, he claims that those seats actually play home to the collective pee of the hundreds of kids who sit on them while they fiddle around on the computers or tablets.

Referred to as “Pee Balls”, the Reddit poster claimed, “Apparently when kids are really into a game they will often choose to just pee in their seat without stopping what they’re doing. The result? Squishy black ball seats. I had never really believed that kids would do this until I walked by while they were retiring one of the balls one night.” Other users who claimed to have worked for Apple say the same thing, while other users claim that the balls were cleaned on a frequent basis and replaced if they got stained. Considering that it apparently costs $700 per ball, we can only imagine it gets pretty expensive.

Of course we can’t verify those details since we double Apple would come forward and admit it, so we will take this with a grain of salt for now. At the same time we guess just to play it safe, you might want to avoid those seats in the future as you never know.

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Ever wonder who made the call to not pursue the Courier? Or, why did Microsoft kill off the Kin so quickly? Maybe looking for someone who can tell you whether the post-PC era is really a thing? Here’s your chance. Bill Gates is currently doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, which, as the name implies, gives you the chance to get your questions answered. Get your best inquiry prepared and hit up the source link — but don’t get too excited. In just 45 minutes Gates’ post has already received 4,400 responses, meaning you might have a bit of a wait before he gets to that most important question: yours.

Update: Video of Bill answering the first few questions added after the break.

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