https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently been found living at Naples Point, just up the coast from UC Santa Barbara. The discovery appears in the journal Zookeys. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-rare-fossil-clam-alive.html Plants & Animals Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:47:03 EST news587062021 Privacy advocates, lawyers and powerful rival Microsoft were piling on Google on Tuesday for sidestepping Web browsing software to tailor ads for people signed into its online services. https://phys.org/news/2012-02-browser-bypasses-google-privacy-hairs.html Internet Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:17:48 EST news249110252 (PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after the world learned that Google has been bypassing user preferences on Safari based browsers to allow advertisers to leave unwanted cookies on their devices, Microsoft put out a press release deploring the practice and gleefully announced that devices running Internet Explorer had no such problems. Microsoft is now backtracking on that announcement and has put out a new one declaring that Google is in fact doing the same thing with Internet Explorer 9 that it has been doing with Safari. https://phys.org/news/2012-02-microsoft-google-bypassing-cookie-technology.html Software Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:20:01 EST news249043847 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Sunday blog post by self-described hacker, writer and entrepreneur Nik Cubrilovic has set off a firestorm of discussions and accusations that Facebook violates user privacy in the form of tracking via leftover cookies. Cubrilovic accused Facebook of using cookies to track users even after users have logged off. “Logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application,” he said. "A number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com." https://phys.org/news/2011-09-facebook-privacy-leftover-cookies.html Internet Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:40:01 EDT news236316574