100m Facebook users exposed

Personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant, reports The BBC.

Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings.

The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.

DreamWorks SKG has signed a multi-year deal with Cerelink for cloud computing access, reveals The Register.

Instead of rendering movies like How To Train Your Dragon on thousands of its own computer cores, DreamWorks will use elastic compute resources housed in Cerelink's supercomputing-class facility at the New Mexico Applications Centre.

“Elastic” cloud computing allows clients like DreamWorks SKG to dynamically adjust technical capacity to meet their real-time business needs.

A legal challenge has begun in the US against a number of Web sites amid claims that they were engaged in "covert surveillance" of users, says The BBC.

The lawsuit alleges that a number of firms, including Hulu, MTV, and Myspace, used a Quantcast Flash application to restore deleted cookies.

Cookies are text files used by Web browsers to store user data.

China on Thursday denied US charges that it unfairly forces foreign firms to transfer technology as the price of admission to its huge market, saying its policies were in line with world trade rules, writes AFP.

"Countries around the world have taken a lot of measures to encourage technology innovation," a commerce ministry official, who declined to be named, said. "The Chinese policies are in line with relevant WTO rules."

The comments were in response to a US Chamber of Commerce report this week that accused China of abusing the allure of its vast market to push foreign companies to transfer their latest technologies to Chinese competitors.