First there were privacy issues, now it seems there’s a bug in the program that lets a hacker delete all your friends. The problem has been reported to Facebook but, so far, it hasn’t been fixed.

The Alex has a 6-inch E Ink display for reading e-books and a 3.5-inch color LCD touchscreen for surfing the web, much like the Nook reader from Barnes & Noble. However. It’s not inexpensive.

Colorful gloves, combined with a webcam, allow you to use gesture to manipulate images on a computer. The patterns on the gloves let the computer program find information about the gesture in a database quickly.

It’s now possible to easily select hair and other previously difficult to select parts of a picture.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Click fraud scams have increased enough to prompt Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit to start tracking down the perpetrators.

The LANrev software used by school administrators to track laptops contains a vulnerability that would allow a hacker to control those machines. This page includes a 4-minute video showing how the hack works.

Android 2.2, aka ‘FroYo’ is out and supports Flash Player 10.1. And Google TV, which can be controlled by an Android device, will be available on a variety of devices this fall.

I’m not sure this actually promotes highway safety as it claims but, it is rather fun to watch the screen adjust. There’s a 1.5-minute video showing how it works.

Pakistan has blocked access to YouTube and Facebook as well as Flickr and Wikipedia. The blocks are said to be part of a crackdown on “objectionable” content.

If you’re traveling to Australia – customs official now have the task of searching computers and cellphones for pornography.