Roy Fielding, a principal scientist at Adobe Systems who is also part of the group working on the DNT specification for the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a patch that sets the Web server to disable DNT if the browser is Internet Explorer 10. This means regardless of user preference, Web servers with the patch applied will ignore the "Do Not Track" setting if the user is running Internet Explorer.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter says it mistakenly reset the passwords of some users as part of a routine security check-up.

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc is removing old versions of Oracle Corp's Java software from Internet browsers on the computers of its customers when they install the latest update to its Mac operating system. Apple, which has previously included Java with installations of Mac OS X, announced the move on its support site. It said that customers need to obtain Java directly from Oracle if they want to access web content written the widely used programming language. (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572) Apple did not provide a reason for the change and both companies declined to comment. ...

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc is removing old versions of Oracle Corp's Java software from Internet browsers on the computers of its customers when they install the latest update to its Mac operating system. Apple, which has previously included Java with installations of Mac OS X, announced the move on its support site. It said that customers need to obtain Java directly from Oracle if they want to access web content written the widely used programming language. (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572) Apple did not provide a reason for the change and both companies declined to comment. ...

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For the first time ever, Twitter censored a controversial account at the request of local government earlier this week. It was run by neo-Nazis. The ban, which is the first of its kind under a relatively new Twitter policy that gives the company "the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country -- while keeping it available in the rest of the world." As such, the ban is only effective in Germany, however. The rest of the world is free to follow the bigots.

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Now BlackBerry users can experience checking in and earning badges on the latest version of Foursquare.

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Political pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phones—and the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why. As NBC's First Read flags, Romney narrowly pulls ahead in Florida among voters who were polled over landlines—48 percent to 45 percent. But among [...]

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