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Does the YouTube team have anything special for Christmas?
Of course we do! It’s a feature we like to call “Let it Snow”
Here’s how it looks:
(click here for the full res image)
Just hit on the little snowflake icon and see it snow!
Happy Holidays from the YouTube team!
Firefox 9 has been released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
So, what’s new in version 9? (read the full release notes here)
- JavaScript performance has been greatly improved.
- The theme integration has been improved on Mac OS X Lion.
- 2 finger swype now available on Lion!
- “Do Not Track” feature for Javascript now integrated.
- HTML5, MathML and CSS improvements
- Bug fixes.
Download links:
All of the links from above will fetch your version from the Mozilla FTP server and are set to download the English (US) version. If you prefer another version, feel free to browse the FTP server on your own here.
*If you’re using Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 you will be automatically upgraded to Firefox 9 withing the next few weeks when the update reaches the main repos. Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 will have to use the following PPA to upgrade the browser.
When I logged on to my account this morning, I noticed the “all new design” of YouTube. Now, this only worked on Opera on my Ubuntu 11.10 system. The “normal” YouTube would show up on all other browsers, and all other operating systems. But, this could be the new obligatory change Google will force upon its users in the future (as they did with the previous Homepage, Channels 2.0, the new Watch page, etc).
So, here’s a screenshot of it:
And, here’s a video showing it:
It appears that the official Microsoft’s YouTube channel has been hacked, and that the hacker has removed all the company’s videos, and replaced them with 3 short (5-10 second) videos.
The videos that the hacker (or hackers) uploaded were to ask someone to design a YouTube background for their newly hacked account and that they would provide some sort of sponsorship. The hacker also posted a bulletin:
This is how the channel looks as of 9:45 a.m (PDT):
No details yet on how the hacking even occurred, but there was a YouTube user who left a comment with his/hers theory of how the account was hacked:
This is how he “hacked” the channel:
He legittly made the account Microsoft when youtube wasn’t that big but the REAL Microsoft probably asked Youtube to disable it and give it to them. The flaw is that this account was probably still linked to this kid’s email and microsoft forgot to change it or whatever.
So all this kid had to do was recover this account using his old email.
Not that hard. Thats probably how the other big Channels got “hacked”.
Thumbs this up so people can see!
If this is true, that means YouTube has some serious problems, because keep in mind— this is the third big YouTube channel that was hacked (SesameStreet, Fred and now Microsoft).
Here’s a video that Ryan (one of our guys at the xskydevilx Tech Show) recorded and uploaded to our channel:
