When al-Qaeda recruitment propaganda appeared on tribal sites in Yemen, Clinton said, “within 48 hours, our team plastered the same sites with altered versions . . . that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people.”

Clinton said the campaign was conducted by the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, based at the State Department, with expertise drawn from the military and the intelligence community.

For the Sunday Times, leaning on a conversation with Facebook's head of policy in the U.K., Simon Milner, offered the headline: "Under-13s may be let into Facebook fold."

Moreover, a year ago Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that he believes all kids should be on the site. The primary reason for this, in his view, is education.

The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET.

The FBI has previously complained to Congress about the so-called “Going Dark” problem – the difficulty of doing effective wiretap surveillance as more communications have moved from traditional telephone services to internet service companies.

"Became a organ donor" has been added to the list of health-related life events that a Facebooker can add to their "Timeline" alongside "buying new glasses" and "weight loss".

"By simply telling people that you're an organ donor, the power of sharing and connection can play an important role", he said. He meant telling them on Facebook of course.

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.

"Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works without paying a penny to the people who created them."

"We should keep blocking them - they are stealing music illegally."

The service will allow users to upload and access videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and other documents.

"It will also create another stream of more focused and potential ad revenue for Google around the content of personal files on Google Drive.

Users will be able search by keyword and filter by file type, owner or activity. Drive will also recognise text in scanned documents using optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

"If you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip to Drive, the next time you search for Grand Canyon, photos of it will pop up," said Mr Pichai.

CISPA would set up a mechanism for the government's security services to share information on new threats with private companies and utilities. In return, those companies can share data on their users with the government if requested, and the bill ensures they are bulletproof from legal fallout if people complain.

There's also an impressive list of technology companies lining up to support CISPA, including Microsoft, Intel, EMC, Oracle and Facebook.

"HR 3523 would impose no new obligations on us to share data with anyone – and ensures that if we do share data about specific cyber threats, we are able to continue to safeguard our users’ private information, just as we do today,' said Facebook's Joel Kaplan

While movie studios and record labels would have you think that torrents are a threat to the movie and music industries, thousands of independent artists heartily disagree.

So far, The Pirate Bay's promos have been very successful for the featured artists. George Barnett, who was one of the first featured artists on The Promo Bay, said the boost from The Pirate Bay helped him add 4,000 new Facebook fans and 85,000 new views on his video.

To promote the feeling that Timeline is a true chronology of a person's (or company's) lifetime, the dates of photos and events can be adjusted to appear in line with when the moment actually occurred. Users are prompted to add photos of major life events starting with their date of birth. Visitors to a user’s Timeline page can quickly navigate to a year to see those embarrassing prom photos from high school.

With today’s mandatory Pages migration and user profile migration already underway, it’s better to learn about the new service and get the most out of it since Facebook shows no sign of rolling back to whatever version you thought best.

Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word "book" by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities," the agreement all users implicitly consent to by using or accessing Facebook.

Not accepting the terms isn't really an option for anyone with a Facebook account. "By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement," the document says.