Facebook IPO could value it among top companies (AP)

FILE - In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 that Facebook is preparing to file initial paperwork for an offering that could raise as much as $10 billion and value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)AP – When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald’s, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

/Dev/Hell Podcast: Episode 4: The Cool Kids Club

The latest episode of the “/dev/hell” podcast has been released – Episode 4: “The Cool Kids Club”.

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Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries (AP)

This screen shot shows a portion of the Twitter blog post of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in which the company announced it has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money. But Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or 'tweets,' remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a gauntlet of different laws around the world. (AP Photo/Twitter)AP – Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

Improving the ASLR of Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Last week I presented my research about “Adding ASLR to jailbroken iPhones” at the Power of Community 2010 (POC2010) security conference in Seoul. During my talk I explained how one can use a modified ‘rebase’ utility to rebase the dynamic linker dyld on the iPhone. Rebasing dyld is important because it contains enough code gadgets that can be used to kickstart arbitrary shellcode on jailbroken iPhones. A tool called Antid0te will be released until the end of this year that allows normal users to add ASLR to their iPhones. The release of this tool was originally planned for 24th December 2010 but it had to be postponed because I got really ill and also my glasses broke.

PHPMaster.com: Bending XML to Your Will

PHPMaster.com has a new tutorial posted today about “bending XML to your will” – working with XML data using the XML Parser and SimpleXML functionality already included with PHP.

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Apple juggernaut gets little investor respect (AP)

FILE - In this March 25, 2011 file photo, customers wait outside the Apple store in Munich before the start of sales of the iPad2. Apple has again surpassed Exxon Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, as the most valuable U.S. company after a huge fiscal first quarter. (AP Photo/dapd, Lukas Barth, File)AP – Apple is worth $415 billion, putting it neck and neck with Exxon Mobil as the world’s most valuable company. But by standard Wall Street measures, its stock is a bargain.

Reddit.com: PHP.net gets a new design. Opinions divided

In this recent post on Reddit.com, there’s some good discussion/feedback about the proposed redesign of PHP.net.