Neowin News Feed for: Gawker

Reddit and other sites hit with "leap second" bug

John Callaham — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:10:24 +0000

Reddit and many other major websites went down on Saturday afternoon and evening due to a bug that didn't take into account the "leap second" that was added to the world's clocks. Read more...

Gizmodo redesign follows in the path of Digg, views down 36%

Brad Sams — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:11:04 +0000

There is something to be said about a design of your webpage, a great design will encourage traffic and help maintain loyal followers, but a poor design can have devastating results. Gizmodo recently unveiled a... Read more...

Twitter worm spreading virally, possibly connected to Gawker attack

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:22:37 +0000

Twitter is facing a worm this morning that, according to Mashable, is “spreading like wildfire.” The attack comes from tweets advertising acai berries and link to sites with URLs containing “acainews.” While the exact nature... Read more...

Gawker source code and database leaked

Alan Cone — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:44:19 +0000

Today, technology media giant Gawker, that runs sites including Gizmodo and Lifehacker, has had their source code and databases leaked to a popular torrent website. Gawker issued in a statement to anyone who has an account... Read more...