Newspaper reporters have the worst job this year, according to CareerCast’s survey “The Worst Jobs In 2013.”
The study stirred practitioners of journalism last week, after the Wall Street Journal reported about the results.
Although not all journalists are well-off or financially stable, calling their profession “the worst job of the year” – worse than lumberjacks – is overstretching it.
CareerCast reasoned that its survey included justifiable factors in a newspaper …

Spanish authorities have arrested a man who allegedly led one of the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history.
The 35-year-old man suspect known as Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka “cb3rob” and referred to by law enforcement agencies as “S.K.,” was arrested in Spain in connection with a recent DDoS attack against anti-spam organization Spamhaus.
On Friday a statement posted on hacker web forum Pastebin confirmed his arrest, but the anonymous author demanded …

Google is currently the world’s foremost search engine so they must be doing something right – something that people find helpful.
This, however, unquantifiable it may seem to the layman, makes people return to Google time and again if ever they need to search for something on the Internet.
But is it really unquantifiable? It probably is not to people who work inside the Internet giant that is Google.
What probably set Google apart from the rest of the pack is that early on, it strove and …

The Internet may be one of humankind’s greatest inventions but it also does have negative effects, especially on children of this generation.
One of these negative effects of the internet is a decrease in attention span of our lads and lasses, this infographic from Who Is Hosting This? claims.
It reveals that 10 years ago, kids had an average attention span of 12 minutes. Today, that’s down to 5 minutes. While that drop may not be solely attributed to Internet use, it is likely that the …

Nearly half of men and women spend a whopping 26 or more hours on the internet every week.
That’s according to this infographic made by Broadband Expert.
At the other end of the spectrum, only 2 percent of women and 3 percent of men spend only 1 to 5 hours surfing the web every week.
How do men and women spend this time online? It’s not only for leisure it seems.
For men and women, the activity that they say eats up most of their online time is email.
Coming in at a second is work and third …

Google takes its April Fools’ Day pranks seriously.
Not only did Google pull pranks on us users of their services on April 1, its executives also pranked their chief Sergey Brin turning his Tesla Model S into a hot pink Batmobile.
Yesterday, photos of Brin’s customized car started surfacing on the Tesla Motors Club forum,  on Twitter and on Google+.
In the photo below, you can see Brin driving the “pimped out” Tesla Model S.

The car, as you can see, has been finished in hot pink with …

Experts have confirmed the Internet is in the midst of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in cyber history .
These recent cyber attacks affect key parts of the Internet’s infrastructure and messes up Internet speeds in several European countries.
According to Mashable, the initial fair game was Spamhaus, a European anti-spam company that blacklists emails considered as spam by its filters and sells the lists to Internet service providers (ISPs).
In mid-March, …

If you’ve ever searched for something on the internet, you’ve probably used Google. If you use Chrome, you’re using Google’s own browser to surf the internet. If you have a gmail account, again you’re using a Google product to send and receive emails. Don’t forget to watch your favorite videos online using YouTube, another Google service but if you want to comment on them, you’re going to need a gmail account. If you need to store personal documents, …

More than 30,000 websites are not happy over a reintroduced Internet security bill in the U.S. Congress.
Thousands of websites, including Craigslist and Reddit, have joined forces to oppose the moot cybersecurity bill Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Tuesday last week the anti-CISPA movement started to display an interactive banner from the Internet Defense League.
The ad banner shows how voters can send a message to their local members of Congress: “CISPA is back. This …

A petition on the White House’s social engagement site We the People is asking for congressmen and senators to wear their sponsors’ logos or names a la NASCAR.
Posted on the site on March 19, the petition has already gotten over 22,000 signatures. However, it still needs over 77,000 signatures from now up to April 18 for the White House to act on it.
Filed under the Government Reform category, its creator says that if the country’s politicians are forced to “prominently display” their …