
A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple’s inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content.
The image appears in the free app BeautyMeter, which enables people to upload photos that are then rated by others, who assign a star-rating to each other’s body parts and clothing. [...]
July 1, 2009 | Posted in
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THEY look like buddies, but it will take Berry the chihuahua a while to forgive Leroy the horse after he accidentally stomped on his head with the force of his 900kg body weight.
Berry was nearly squashed flat when her pal, a 900kg (140-stone) Clydesdale, stepped backwards on to her head, reports the Metro newspaper.
“There was [...]
July 1, 2009 | Posted in
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An 8-foot pet Burmese python broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said.
Shaiunna Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at about 10 a.m., Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said.
Charles Jason Darnell, the snake’s owner and the boyfriend [...]
July 1, 2009 | Posted in
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The federal government has issued a warning against fly-by criminals who are issuing SMS death threats to defraud victims.
The anonymous death threats warn victims that they will be killed unless they follow instructions pointing to a Web address or e-mail account, where a random is often demanded.
Experts say the criminals hack into mobile network carriers [...]
July 1, 2009 | Posted in
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