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Spam, spam, spam: Twitter’s arms race (Charles Arthur/Guardian)

Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Spam, spam, spam: Twitter’s arms race  —  Del Harvey’s ‘Trust and Safety’ team is tasked with stopping spam on Twitter.  Is she fighting a losing battle?  —  Biz Stone and Ev Williams discovered pretty quickly that Del Harvey was serious about the task they’d set her of putting a lid on Twitter’s spam problem.

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Gawker was hacked six months ago, say sources close to Gnosis (Charles Arthur/Guardian)

Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Gawker was hacked six months ago, say sources close to Gnosis  —  Server was cracked using ‘local file inclusion’ weakness and hacking group then worked through system to access passwords and source code, sources say … Hackers had access to the gossip site Gawker’s content management system …

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