Anonymous to shut-down the net on March 31? Hacking group Anonymous is planning to launch Operation Global Blackout on March 31, which will see the internet brought to its knees. According to a statement, which the group posted onPastebinearlier this week, it plans to attack 13 DNS servers that ensure URLs such as google.co.uk are translated into the IP addresses that host these websites. “To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the internet down,” the group said in the statement....

Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud Zynga has moved most of its users away from Amazon Web Services and onto its private cloud in a move to maximize the reliability and performance of its social games network. Nearly 80 percent of Zynga’s daily active users were hosted on its own infrastructure at the end of 2011, a reversal from the start of last year, when 80 percent were hosted in Amazon’s public cloud, Allan Leinwand, Zynga’s CTO for infrastructure, said in an interview....

How to enable Login notifications in Facebook Since Facebook launched, the social network has constantly been adding new functions and features that ensure users can maintain their privacy and keep their accounts secure. Among these features are the ability to enable two-step authentication and view active sessions. Facebook also offers an alert service that will notify you should someone log-in to your account using a device that you’ve never used before....

Youngsters prefer social media to TV Social media is more popular with 16 to 24s than watching TV, says Click Consult. Research by the marketing and web development agency revealed 65 percent admitted using sites like Facebook and Twitter takes up most of their spare time each day, while 54 percent claimed it was watching TV. For older age groups, TV remained as popular with half of 25 to 34 year olds saying they prefer watching TV and the same amount spend most of their time on social media sites, while just under a third (32 percent) of over 55s spend most of their spare time using Facebook and Twitter....

ARM’s first 64-bit processors target servers, smartphones ARM will announce its first 64-bit processors later this year for servers and high-end smartphones, and is also taking steps to build up software support for the processor designs, said CEO Warren East earlier this week. The first 64-bit processors will be licensed to device makers and based on the ARMv8 architecture, which was announced in October. The 64-bit processors will be in volume production by 2014, after which it will reach devices, East said....