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Google+ Profiles Just Got Bigger Cover Photos, a brand new Seek the ‘About’ Tab, and native Reviews

Google has just begun to roll out some significant changes to Google+ profiles that bring bigger cover photos, an entire new seek for the “about” section, and a brand new tab on your reviews.

When you visit your profile today, you’ll see a prompt that asserts “Cover photos just got bigger” and asks you in the event you’d prefer to update yours now. The larger cover photos now allow for 2120px by 1192px images.

“This type more images can be utilized as cover photos, and there’s extra space in your selection to polish,” says Google’s Sara McKinley in a Google+ post.

Your “About” section has also received an update. It’s a totally new design that puts all your separate pieces of knowledge into their very own color-coded cards. Each info card features its own “edit” button to boot.

Lastly, a brand new “Reviews” tab was added to the head of your profile alongside those to your +1s, YouTube videos, photos, and posts. As you are going to imagine, this tab houses all your Google Local reviews.

“Highlight your favorite restaurants, or hide the tab completely via settings it’s completely as much as you,” says Google.

If you don’t see your new Google+ profile yet, wait and see. Google says that it’s rolling out gradually.

Swift Slams Tina Fey For Golden Globes Joke

The Golden Globes could be months behind us, but Taylor Swift remains to be sore a few jab made at her expense by comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Swift, who’s song “Safe & Sound” lost to Adele’s “Skyfall” for best original song on the awards show, was mocked by both hosts over her many publicized relationships.

“You recognize what Taylor Swift, you steer clear of Michael J. Fox’s son,” said Fey, feigning drunkenness on-stage on the Globes. Sam Fox was serving as Mr. Golden Globes for the award ceremony.

Poehler suggested that maybe Swift should “just opt for it,” but Fey countered that the pop star “needs some ‘me’ time to benefit about herself.”

Now, in a brand new interview with Vanity Fair, Swift reveals that she resents the image of her which is presented in tabloid magazines. She claims the magazines will “turn you right into a fictional character,” that is presumably what Fey and Poehler were basing their joke on.

Swift told Vanity Fair that Fey’s joke reminded her of something Katie Couric had told her: “There’s a distinct place in hell for girls who don’t help other women.”

Both Poehler and Fey have responded to Swift’s comment. Poehler told The Hollywood Reporter that she feels bad if Swift was upset, and “That being said, I do agree i will hell.” Fey told Entertainment Tonight that it was a “lighthearted joke” and that other jokes she made that night had more punch.

Time Warner Cable Hacked For Its Support Of Copyright Alert System

Time Warner Cable is probably the five ISPs participating within the “six strikes” Copyright Alert System that went live last week. One group of hackers doesn’t particularly like that fact, and made sure Time Warner knew it last night.

The Daily Dot reports that the Time Warner Cable support Website online was hacked and defaced last night by a gaggle of hackers calling themselves “NullCrew.” The defaced page landing featured the gorilla (pictured above) from the well-liked “rustled my jimmies” meme. The hack reportedly lasted anywhere between five to 8 hours.

Funny enough, it appears that evidently the IT guys at Time Warner Cable never thought to alter their admin password from the default “changeme.” Beyond that, some names and chat logs from the support site were posted, but no confidential information was shared with the general public.

To that end, this actual hack was obviously just meant to attract people’s attention to the Copyright Alert System. It’s nothing just like the previous defacements and hacks coming from Anonymous as portion of #OpLastResort. That specific operation targeted the Federal Reserve and other government agencies.

I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if NullCrew’s exploits inspired more hacks and defacements of the five ISPs participating within the CAS. Anonymous, and related hacking groups, obviously see it as an attack on Internet freedom. It will likely be interesting to look what happens when the primary round of copyright alerts start going out to subscribers.

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PETA Decides to move After Historical Whaling in a Game

In your “dude, seriously” news of the day, the folk for the moral Treatment of Animals (PETA) have turned their sights on Ubisoft over some possible content from an yet-to-be-released game.

PETA is upset that Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag may feature some kind of whaling contained in the game. They have got released a press release calling it “disgraceful” to glorify the practice, which continues today.

Whaling it is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they’re still alive—may appear like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today inside the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it. PETA encourages game companies to create games that remember animals—not games that promote hurting and killing them.

The game, set to release on October 29th, will let players “relive the truly explosive events that defined the Golden Age of Pirates” by “captaining and customizing their very own ship, looking for lost treasure, hunting rare animals and looting underwater shipwrecks.”

So, outrage.

Ubisoft’s response is pretty good:

History is our playground in Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag is a piece of fiction that depicts the genuine events in the course of the Golden Era of Pirates. We don’t condone illegal whaling, just as we don’t condone a pirate lifestyle of poor hygiene, plundering, hijacking ships, and over the legal limit drunken debauchery.

Nobody is condoning whaling however the game hasn’t even hit the shelves yet. C’mon, guys.