Do not click the Nicole Santos Facebook post This morning, a
rapidly spreading Facebook hack has spammed many profiles with an
explicit message demanding, "Vote for Nicole Santos" among other
profane words. Nicole Santos is trending this morning on Twitter as people
try to get to the bottom of this. The Next Web provides both the script that causes the hack and how Facebook is responding.
And, if you're curious to see what the message said, protect your account and just watch the spoof video above.
Response to Newt's Candidacy Yesterday afternoon, Newt Gingrich announced via Twitter that will run for President in the 2012 election. Following the tweet and video message, the discussion has begun. Many flock to Twitter to share their reaction or opinion of the candidacy, and political bloggers analyze Newt's (as he's referred to both in Congress and the web) position. Here's some of the most popular retweets.
John Demjanjuk holds a sign 1627, the number of a Soviet investigative file on him the defense says has hundreds of pages of details
AP Photo/Lukas Barth
One of the last Nazi War Criminals gets sentenced John Demjanjuk, 91-year-old retired American auto worker, was sentenced to five years in prison for being a Nazi during World War II. The Ukrainian was charged with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder while working at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Demjanjuk's case has lasted over 30 years. In the 1980s he was convicted in an Israeli court of being "Ivan the Terrible," the brutal guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. However, he was freed when the court overturned the ruling and found evidence that he was not Ivan. He still claims that he was a originally a Soviet soldier who became a German POW. He was then forced to join the Vlasov Army, a group of anti-communist Soviet POWs who were forced to fight with Germany against the Soviet Union.
Is it a laptop? A netbook? No, it's a Chromebook Chromebook is trending this morning after Google's announcement yesterday. As of June 15th, the Google Chrome device will be available for purchase. So what exactly is a Chromebook?
We'll Google take it from here.
