Entrecard social network has closed their Series A round of funding. They didn’t said how much money they received, but the investment is evaluated at $1.1 million. The founder of Powweb, Andrew Te led the investment.

In five months it has reached a rank of 1433 on Alexa and serves up to 2 million widgets a day.

Warner Music joins RIAA on the $5 a month tax. They say that this is not really a tax is only a “protection” services against them, if you pay you won’t be sued.

The tax isn’t mandatory but if the ISPs will be force to join the scheme it will be. It may seem that this is good news but it isn’t because this is an extortion scheme and if it get approved it will be government endorsed extortion, making RIAA and the other music labels criminal organizations, from witch users can’t escape.

Even if you will pay the tax it will still be illegal to download music from the Internet through BitTorrent or from other P2P networks. And because like any other criminal organization RIAA will get greedy and the $5 tax will soon become the $10 tax. From the $5 tax RIAA will generate $20 billion a year in revenues making it a very powerful organization.

Unauthorized software was installed on servers in Hannaford Bros supermarkets in the Northeast and Florida. The program created a data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards.

Hannaford doesn’t know how the malware got in its 271 stores’ servers. 1,800 cases of fraud have been linked to the data breach, with unauthorized charges showing up far in Mexico, Italy and Bulgaria.

This appears to be the first large-scale theft of credit and debit card numbers while the information was in transit.

That the breach, occurred between Dec. 7 and March 10 allowed credit and debit card numbers to be stolen as shoppers swiped their cards at checkout line machines and the information was transmitted to banks for approval.

The malware turned up in all Hannaford stores in New England and New York, and in most of the company’s affiliated Sweetbay stores in Florida, Eleazer said. 

The breach remains under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service and had not been previously disclosed “because of the confidential nature of the investigation”.

After a long fight with the movie industry TorrentSpy shuts down.

In 2006 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) accused TorrentSpy of encouraging movie piracy. In June last year a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to provide information about its user, TorrentSpy tried to protect its users and blocked access from U.S and the judge decided that TorrentSpy intentionally destroyed evidence in the case. The company was fined earlier with $30.000 for ignoring the court orders and after another decision TorrentSpy is forced to pay damages to MPAA.

The judge ruled in the favor of MPAA because TorrentSpy destroyed evidence. Also MPAA ruined SuprNova.org and LokiTorrent, and currently IsoHunt is fighting with them.

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Yahoo has redesigned the homepage, Yahoo moved the logo back to the center. And the shopping section has been removed from the homepage.

The old version from the Google Cache.

 The new version.

Turkey banned Slide, a photo-sharing tool. Turkey is accusing Slide of hosting images that offends Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey. Slide has contacted the Turkish Government with the hope of resolving this problem, but hasn’t received any response.

Associated Press reported that Byron Ng, a Vancouver computer technician has found a security weakness that allowed him to see private photos on Facebook, after a recent upgrade to the websites privacy controls.

Byron Ng was able to pull private photos of Paris Hilton at the Emmy awards and of her brother Nicholas drinking a beer with friends. Associated Press verified the tip and looked at random people private profiles. They also clicked through a personal photo album of the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg that was posted in November 2005.

After being alerted Facebook has fixed the security hole, so until the next bug is found your pictures are safe.

Google will discuss Monday in a conference call about the unused TV spectrum band that are between broadcast channels known as white spaces.

Companies want to use this spectrum for Internet access; also FCC has successfully tested several prototypes that use the white space to transmit wireless communication signals from Koninklijke Philips Electronics, Adaptrum, Motorola, Philips and Microsoft. But TV broadcasters and Sprint Nextel a cell phone carrier are opposing to this technology saying that it will cause interference.

Until now Google hasn’t submitted any prototype only its own white space testing results in December.