Technology blogTechnologyBoot up: Grindr 'hacked to expose private pictures', Apple's secrets, and morePlus the MegaUpload indictment in full, and Acer says ultrabooks to account for 25-35% of its notebook shipments in 2012A quick burst of 14 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Love online: 100,000 Grindr users exposed in hack attack >>> Sydney Morning HeraldThis is big.
The hacker discovered a way to log in as another user, impersonate that user, chat and send photos on their behalf. Read More...
Shelling out … Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi, Florence. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty ImagesShelling out … Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi, Florence. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty ImagesBook of the dayBooksReviewWhy did Botticelli endure centuries of obscurity? And what happened to those Dante illustrations? A fresh account of the Renaissance explores the answer
It is not unknown for tourists to faint in front of Botticelli’s 1486 masterpiece The Birth of Venus. Read More...
Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryThis serene vision of death reads rather like the dream of a good night’s sleep
Rest
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies,
Hush’d in and curtain’d with a blessèd dearth Read More...
