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Submission + - Brazilian Author Serializes Novel on Twitter (smashwords.com)

Submitted by cottagetrees
cottagetrees writes: Claudio Soares, a Brazilian author and literary blogger, has launched an online publishing experiment involving Twitter, CommentPress, videos, music and eventually, the ebook self-publishing service, Smashwords. Soares has broken his novel into pieces, and is serializing it from the unique perspectives of each of the eight characters, each of whom has their own Twitter account. In an interesting twist, the characters will interact with their Twitter followers. This has the potential to create an immersive experience, not just for the community of readers that congregates around the book and its characters as the story unfolds, but for the author as well. The book, Santos Dumont Número 8, is written in Portuguese. Details at the Smashwords blog

Comment Re:How does the infection spread? (Score 1) 226

by cottagetrees (#20368455) Attached to: Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks
When a user clicks on the hyperlink in the spam to view their video, they're instead sent to another IP address, where the Q4rollup exploit (a collection of about a dozen encrypted exploits) checks to see if you're fully patched against all the security vulnerabilities the exploits target. If you're unpatched anywhere, you're hit with a driveby download that your AV or AS software is unlikely to catch.
Security

Submission + - Storm botnet spams Youtube exploit (blogspot.com)

Submitted by cottagetrees
cottagetrees writes: Security researcher Roger Thompson at Exploit Prevention Labs posted about a big Storm botnet spam that tells the recipient their face is all over 'net on a YouTube video. The hyperlink to the video looks innocent enough, though the html under the link takes the user to an exploitive IP address that attempts a driveby download of the Q4Rollup exploit, a package of about a dozen encrypted exploits. If the user is unpatched against anything, they're hit. Here's the text of the spam I personally received this morning: "Subject: Who is that your with? lol Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:40:32 -0400 From: To: OMG, what are you doing man. This video of you is all over the net. here is the link I got http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAqQ2G671GV (in the html email, the actual hyperlink is to a different address, which I confirmed was exploitive by pasting it into LinkScanner Online at http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/default .asp I test all my suspicious hyperlinks here.)
Businesses

Submission + - 13-year-old CEO steals the show at at TiECON 2007

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An anonymous reader writes: This 13-year old Silicon Valley CEO has a plan to change the way kids learn chemistry. He stole the show yesterday at TiECON 2007, the big entrepreneur conference held in Santa Clara, Calif. VentureBeat has the story and a video interview here — http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/19/elementeos-13-ye ar-old-ceo-highlight-of-tiecon/#more-12504
Enlightenment

Submission + - Scientists offer new way to read online text

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An anonymous reader writes: Scientists at a small startup called Walker Reading Technologies in Minnesota have determined that the human brain is not wired properly to read block text. They have found that our eyes view text as if they're peering through a straw. Not only does your brain see the text on the line you're reading, but it's also uploading superfluous information from the two lines above and the two lines below. This causes your brain to engage in a tug of war as it fights to filter and ignore the noise. The result is slower reading speeds and decreased comprehension. The company has developed a product that automatically re-formats text in a way that your brain can more easily comprehend. This article in VentureBeat — http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/10/live-ink-offers- better-way-to-read-text-online/#more-10459 — explains.

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