LulzSec Hacks Murdoch-Owned ‘The Sun,’ Redirects Homepage To @LulzSec Twitter Account. Looks like hacker group LulzSec is back in action, this time redirecting the homepage of the Murdoch-owned The Sun ( to a fake story about Murdoch’s death from a drug overdose located on the Murdoch-owned URL used to broadcast the London Times’ redesign After the amount of requests caused a 404 failure on the Times site, the group then redirected The Sun’s homepage to the @LuzSec Twitter account. (The original page is archived at From what I can see the fake story was meant to mirror an actual The Sun story about the latest development in the messy Murdoch/New Corp/News of the World scandal, “Ex News of the World journalist found dead.”
After about 10 minutes of being up (and I swear the real Sun homepage was redirecting) the fake story was pulled from the UK Times site. I’m including the full text of the story below: Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War | Magazine. The USB memory stick contained the sole copy of a videogame unlike any created before.
Photo: Jason Pietra Jason Rohrer is known as much for his eccentric lifestyle as for the brilliant, unusual games he designs. He lives mostly off the grid in the desert town of Las Cruces, New Mexico. He doesn’t own a car or believe in vaccination. On the morning of February 24, Rohrer took a break from coding and pedaled to the local Best Buy. The stick would soon hold a videogame unlike any other ever created. Rohrer unveiled Chain World at the 2011 Game Design Challenge, held on March 4 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The challenge is the one place where people from the two sides of the industry meet every year to battle as equals. Challenge organizer Zimmerman decided that this year’s theme would be Bigger Than Jesus: games as religion.
Rohrer turned out to be the only one of the three competitors who really addressed the theme head-on. How Teenagers Handle the Web’s Instant Fame. This was just a week after the amateur video for Ms. Black’s now-infamous song, “Friday,” in which Ms. Cinkle had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo, began its viral Internet ascent. Ms. Cinkle, who agreed to appear in the video with the expectation that no one would actually see it, was shocked by the news. By her own admission, she was just “that girl in pink who sits behind Rebecca in the car for four seconds and was a terrible dancer.” When she first checked out her fan page that morning in March, there were already 2,000 followers.
So Ms. First, she set up an official Tumblr page to keep track of the rapid proliferation of animated GIFS (graphic files that display a simple loop of images) that had sprung up showcasing her all-thumbs dance moves. “Everything happened so fast, I just made sure to keep up,” she said. Ms. Then there are the legions of girls who post “haul” videos, short clips of themselves chattering about their most recent fashion and makeup purchases. While Ms. 9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft. - Quicker Better Tech - Video: ‘Fuzz’ Factor Fuels Rango’s Awesome Animation | Underwire.
Rango, a weird and wonderful animated film directed by Gore Verbinski, serves up a giant hat tip to spaghetti westerns with a bit of Fear and Loathing thrown in. The first animated feature from Industrial Light & Magic, the film is richly detailed, from the dirt billowing across the desert to the way the animal characters’ eyes dart back and forth. How did the clever animators make the loveable lizard Rango, voiced by Johnny Depp, so lifelike? One key ingredient: fuzz. “‘Fuzz’ is a word Gore uses a lot,” says Hal Hickel, ILM’s animation director, in the Wired.com video above. “He’ll say, ‘You know that’s good, the bones on that are good, the basics are good. Now just put some fuzz on it. Verbinski, who directed the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, also had Rango‘s voice actors perform together so the animation could flow from realistic body language.
“It was like a very strange, D-company regional theater,” says Depp of the unusual moviemaking tactic. Privacy Isn't Dead. Just Ask Google+. Jim Wilson/The New York TimesFacebook, run by Mark Zuckerberg, has suffered a number of privacy mishaps over the years. Some people have a very hard time trusting Facebook. After dozens of privacy problems over the years, they’ve grown extremely wary of what the company is doing with my personal information. I, for one, rarely use Facebook anymore, beyond a rare comment or “Like.” My Facebook fears stem from the several instances when the company has added new features to the site and chosen to automatically opt-in hundreds of millions of users, most of whom don’t even know they’ve been signed up for the new feature.
For Facebook, these breaches of people’s personal privacy rarely result in any repercussions. That is, until now. Enter Google+, which started last month and has already grown to 10 million users. I learned this lesson accidentally last week. It wasn’t until later that I realized that my post had been made private by default. This isn’t to say Google is perfect. Dell wants to use Google+ Hangouts for customer service — Online Video News.