Apple MacBook Bursting Batteries?

Violet Blue ( her blog is NSFW) had her MacBook Battery explode and she wrote about it on ZDNET

Apple's PR Department:  "That's how they work", or the equivalent

Well, I guess now I have a way to replace them.

Twitter removes dumb Direct Message feature a month after release

From TheVerge:
  
Twitter quietly removes feature that lets you receive direct messages from any follower

Only a month after rolling out the feature, Twitter has quietly removed the ability for users to receive direct messages from any follower. For now, the person you want to DM will need to follow you back before you share any private thoughts.
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What could possibly go wrong?  I'm glad they realized the problems relatively quickly. How could they do this in the first place?

FireEye gets in on the publication action with a paper linking 11 APT campaigns

From Slashdot:

"FireEye researchers have linked eleven distinct APT cyber espionage campaigns previously believed to be unrelated (PDF), leading them to believe that there is a shared operation that supplies and maintains malware tools and weapons used in them. The eleven campaigns they tied together were detected between July 2011 and September 2013, but it's possible and very likely that some of them were active even before then.

Apple has not necessarily jumped the shark...

But when they delete posts by Lawrence Lessig (Law professor, founder of creative commons) from their tech forum for talking about his rights to get his product repaired, well ?

So this has been a week from Apple hell. Apple did a major upgrade of its suite of software — from the operating system through applications. Stupidly (really, inexcusably stupid), I upgraded immediately. Every Apple-related product I use has been crippled in important ways. ...

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65697513808/on-the-pathological-way-apple-deals-with-its-customers