Six years ago, Schuler Benson and Celeste Zendler (now Celeste Benson) had no mutual friends, lived in two different states, had zilch shared Facebook interests, and had never met. But one day, Facebook glitched, and the end result is that the two are now hitched. It’s the “fairy-tale for Millennials,” Schuler Benson says: one random...

A former Virginia Tech student who used Yik Yak to threaten a massacre at the school has pleaded guilty. In April, Ki Ung “Eddie” Moon had posted this message to the more-or-less anonymous social network: Another 4.16 moment is going to happen tomorrow. Just a warning. To students at the US school, those numbers could...

Are you in London this week and planning on attending IP EXPO Europe at ExCel on Wednesday or Thursday? It’s the first year that Sophos is at the show and we’re celebrating by giving away free socks (obviously), laptop stickers and webcam covers! Our experts James Burchell and Greg Iddon will also be holding a...

If you’re a member of LinkedIn then you’ll already know that the professional networking site likes to send out a large number of emails on a regular basis. And, if you’re anything like me, you probably delete the vast majority without ever opening them. But you may have received one on Friday, 2 October, that is...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Thursday that it’s broken up an alleged $32 million Ponzi scheme that promised to mine amber and pay out profits in so-called “Gemcoin” cryptocurrency. The SEC’s complaint alleges that Gemcoin’s parent company, Alliance Finance Group (AFG), and its subsidiary, United States Fine Investment Arts (USFIA), made...

Wireless carrier T-Mobile is warning 15 million customers whose personal information was compromised in a data breach at credit reporting company Experian. In a bizarre twist of irony, those customers are currently being offered two years of free credit monitoring from ProtectMyID.com – a service owned and operated by Experian. The data breach, announced on Thursday, 1 October,...

Surfing the internet late at night, ex-Google Display Specialist and Account Strategist Sanmay Ved discovered a strange thing – a premium domain name going for just $12. And by premium I don’t mean some new, previously unregistered domain with a catchy name, but, rather, the mother of all domains: Google.com. At around 1:20 AM on...

I don’t actually know Julia Cordray. We’ve never hung out, and she never hired me to write for her. Nor have I ever babysat her kids – Julia, do you even have kids? – and I’m pretty sure she’s never fed my cats while I’m on vacation. I’m going to rate her anyway. I’m giving...