On Tuesday a young Sky News producer became a cause celebre, on Twitter at least. Under the hashtag #savefieldproducer he became one of the most-discussed subjects on the social networking service, after the leaking of what appeared to be a restrictive new social media policy at Sky.

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter". The new guidelines also warn Sky News journalists to "stick to your own beat" and...  show all text

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A recent BBC survey commissioned for the BBC's Share Take Care campaign suggests that only 40% of young people are aware that personal information shared online stays online forever. Now think of the reported 250 million tweets generated everyday and combine it with what the 800 million Facebook users are sharing and you get an awful lot of personal information floating around the internet - and potentially staying there forever... Sometimes in our rush to get to grips with the latest bit of on...  show all text

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Thousands of Trendnet security camera webfeeds have been breached and shared on the internet, including live video from children's rooms.

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Full coverage as the head of the Met's phone-hacking inquiry, Daily Mail editor and former NoW showbiz editor give evidence 12.43pm: The witness statement of Sue Akers has now been published on the Leveson inquiry website. 12.42pm: Owens says that newspapers do often investigate claims and that was his aim in meeting Atkins. He suggests that he kept open the possibility of exposing Atkins after the undercover film-maker claimed to be able to get his friend drunk to obtain information about cele...  show all text

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Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site," but said it's currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that ...  show all text

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Its latest boss is tasked with winning a new audience for Radio 1 – and presumably edging out its older presenters. His real ambition is to make his station the Jamie Oliver of the airwaves Ben Cooper knows Chris Moyles better than most. He is a former producer of the maverick DJ and, as BBC Radio 1 head of programmes, was responsible for the day-to-day running of Moyles's breakfast show. Now, as the controller of Radio 1, he is Moyles's boss. "Chris is a phenomenal broadcaster," he says of the...  show all text

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Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.

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Twelve new clocks were ordered by the Royal Observatory Greenwich for the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874. This astronomical regulator clock, Dent No. 2009, is a weight-driven, sidereal, wood pendulum, 8-day regulator with deadbeat escapement with jewelled pallets. For the 1874 expedition it was sent to Cairo in Egypt (Station A). It may also have been used in the 1882 Transit of Venus expeditions. In 1894 it was returned to the Royal Observatory Greenwich and set up in the South East Equa...

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If we want to carry on doing amazing things here at GDS then we need to carry on building up the world-class digital talent in Government. We already have some excellent people in the team and there’s more on the way, but we know some of you find our application process a bit daunting.  So we’ve put together this simple guide to making a great application to GDS. It applies equally well to all our jobs, although right now it’s especially relevant for software developers (apply before 13th Feb to  show all text

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Tech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact: Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly. The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft. In the December quarter,...  show all text

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Real-time UK snow Twitter mashup, crowdsourcing snow reports to build a live view of snow fall across the UK. Tweet the hashtag #uksnow, your location and rate the snow that is falling out of ten.

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In a world abuzz with Facebook, Twitter and live TV, what is it about radio that keeps us tuning in, asks Susanna Rustin

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For those working for the BBC Persian service, interference and harassment from the Iranian authorities has become a challenging fact of life. I am hugely proud of how they deal with that relentless pressure, and their unswerving commitment to delivering high quality, impartial journalism. They arguably have the most difficult jobs in the BBC. They carry them out with unstinting dedication and in the knowledge that their work makes a critical difference to the lives of millions who crave access...  show all text

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Radio 1 bring their biggest ever event to Hackney in London, featuring over 100 of the world's top artists across six unique stages.

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The Guardian today announced that it will be holding its first ever 'Open Weekend' in March, opening up its doors to thousands of members of the public across two days

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A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent  show all text

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The BBC is to relaunch its hugely successful BBC Sport website, to put live coverage at the heart of its output in what is poised to be an unforgettable year of sport. The new site will be available from tomorrow morning.

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Open data is all very well, but what if you don't release the most useful datasets of all? Paul Clarke on the scandal of UK transport data

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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated). Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I'll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do...  show all text

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The BBC and Sky today announced a landmark partnership deal that will bring the BBC’s popular video-on-demand service BBC iPlayer to up to five million Sky homes in 2012.

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Before the global meltdown, financial news was strictly for geeks and struggled to get on the news. Now, financial correspondents have become celebrities Last year, there was an unexpected knock on the front door of Robert Peston's home in Muswell Hill, north London. When he answered, Peston, who has been the BBC's business editor since 2005, was confronted by a reporter from a local news agency. "He asked me a question about whether I dyed my hair," Peston recalls. "Apparently there was some F...  show all text

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