Author: Nick

As Facebook gets serious about stickers, creator says so long

Posted by | Jul 3, 2013 | |

A Facebook sticker exchange with original product designer Sophie Xie. (Credit: Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Just a little more than a year after joining Facebook, Sophie Xie, the product and art designer behind Facebook’s expanding sticker initiative, has left the company, CNET has confirmed. Xie started the Facebook hackathon project that turned into Facebook stickers, the character-driven emoticons that people can send in private messages on mobile and now Web.

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AT&T iPad hacker appeals conviction

Posted by | Jul 3, 2013 | |

Andrew Auernheimer, aka “Weev,” in a photo from 2011. (Credit: anonymous) A security researcher who was convicted of accessing a non-password protected portion of AT&T’s Web site and sentenced to more than three years in prison has appealed his conviction.

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Ubisoft hacked; users’ e-mails and passwords exposed

Posted by | Jul 3, 2013 | |

Ubisoft, the maker of Assassin’s Creed, announces that its online network was breached by hackers. (Credit: Ubisoft) Anyone that has an account with video game developer Ubisoft is being advised to change their password immediately. The game maker announced Tuesday that its user account database was breached by hackers who gained access to user names, e-mail addresses, and encrypted passwords

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