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That’s what Fox Business is claiming: The corporate and media sites of The New York Times (NYT) were experiencing a major cyber attack on Wednesday afternoon, according to a source close to the matter. The source, who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of the issue, said the newspaper has been huddling with outside security professionals …

JMG reader Robert notes there’s lots of gay activism among Brazil’s rise in citizen journalists.  This clip is a great example.

Via press release: A new mobile app called Quist is now available worldwide to engage the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community in their shared history and help isolated LGBT youth feel less alone. “Presenting LGBTQ history through this interactive medium is one of the most engaging ways these stories have been shared with the world,” says the …

Via the Daily Mail: Imagine if the internet was mapped out like a solar system with the world’s biggest websites represented by individual planets. But instead of the map of just a handful of planets that we’re used to seeing when learning about space, The Internet Map, a website set up by a Russian data-visualisation designer, has in excess of …

Google today began selling Chromecast, a dongle for streaming web videos directly to your television.  Forbes reports: Practically giving away the device (it’s only $35 and comes with $24 worth of Netflix, even for current Netflix customers) could turn out to be a brilliant move for Google if it results in a massive uptake in customers turning to the search …

A Tennessee lawyer is suing Apple for not stopping him from accessing the porn that he says destroyed his marriage. In his 50-page complaint, Chris Sevier is seeking to force Apple to sell all its products with installed porn blocking filters. If a buyer 18 years or older wishes to remove the filters, Apple should also provide them with a …

Fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden yesterday accused Germany of working with the United States government in spying on private citizens. America’s National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states on a ‘no questions asked’-basis, former NSA employee Edward Snowden said in comments that undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel’s indignant talk of “Cold War” tactics. “They are in bed …

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Launched yesterday was the Vegan Sellout List, a site which features an interactive map of the United States for finding ex-vegan sellouts near you. Readers are encouraged to upload the names, photos, and home towns of these meat-eating traitors. “Tell us everything you can about this person.” The site’s domain is registered in China, presumably to protect its owner from …

From YouTube’s official YouTube channel.

From the Department of Housing and Urban Development: This is the first large-scale, paired-testing study to assess housing discrimination against same-sex couples in metropolitan rental markets via advertisements on the Internet. The research is based on 6,833 e-mail correspondence tests conducted in 50 metropolitan markets across the United States from June through October 2011. For each correspondence test, two e-mails …

Disqus just alerted everybody that starting “over the next few days”, you’ll be able to see who upvoted or downvoted your comments.  Sort of how you can see who “liked” your posts on Facebook, but here you’ll also be able to see who thinks you’re full of it. Oh, this should be fun.

Using the Village Voice’s Backpage.com site, cops in Nassau County lured in 104 men with prostitution offers from undercover male and female officers. The arrested men range in age from 17 to 79. More than 100 johns — lawyers and doctors among them — were named and shamed in an aggressive Nassau County sting after soliciting sex from cops posing …

The Pew Internet Project reports: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties …

The New York Times reports: The board of Yahoo, the faded Web pioneer, agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, the companies announced Monday, a signal of how the company plans to reposition itself as the technology industry makes a headlong rush into social media. The deal would be the largest …

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TechCrunch reports on another announcement out of Google’s developers conference. Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements from today’s Google I/O developer conference is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants, such as PayPal. It plans to do so with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile …

At today’s Google developers conference.

Gawker Media founder Nick Denton will marry his boyfriend next year, according to the gossip column of the New York Daily News. The British media mogul got engaged to his actor boyfriend, Derrence Washington, over the weekend, with Denton telling us the two plan to marry in upstate New York next May. “This is the one event even I wouldn’t …