Linked – Google kills Gmail joke on April Fools’ after user backlash


Why are technology companies who promote the use of their products for business messing around with April Fool’s pranks inside those same products? That’s just stupid.


Why are technology companies who promote the use of their products for business messing around with April Fool’s pranks inside those same products? That’s just stupid.
It was just over a year ago that I discovered and wrote about Strawberryj.am At the time I was happy to see the service because I thought it brought something useful to the Twitter world, a place I could browse what links my tweeps were sharing the most, to quickly get a feel for what…
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WHEN THE BOTNET named Mirai first appeared in September, it announced its existence with dramatic flair. After flooding a prominent security journalist’s website with traffic from zombie Internet of Things devices, it managed to make much of the internet unavailable for millions of people by overwhelming Dyn, a company that provides a significant portion of…
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