by Michael Cropper | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse |
WordPress 4.7.5 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.
WordPress versions 4.7.4 and earlier are affected by six security issues:
- Insufficient redirect validation in the HTTP class. Reported by Ronni Skansing.
- Improper handling of post meta data values in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Sam Thomas.
- Lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Ben Bidner of the WordPress Security Team.
- A Cross Site Request Forgery (CRSF) vulnerability was discovered in the filesystem credentials dialog. Reported by Yorick Koster.
- A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Source:: WordPress 4.7.5 Security and Maintenance Release
by Michael Cropper | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse |
By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety
May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US, and this month Facebook is letting people know about our tools and resources we have developed for people who may be struggling. People may see videos or photos in News Feed for a broad awareness campaign about supportive groups, crisis support over Messenger and suicide prevention tools.
We’ve been committed to mental health support for many years, and this is one of the ways we’re working to build a safer and more supportive community on Facebook. As we continue to invest in new tools
Source:: Connecting People With Mental Health Resources and Building a Safer Community
by Michael Cropper | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse |
The 2017 #Promote Innovation Challenge is officially underway.
Twitter collaborates with a diverse ecosystem of businesses to serve our global marketers. #Promote is our way of recognizing some of the most exciting technology and service solutions in the industry.
Source:: Announcing the 2017 #Promote Innovation Challenge
by Michael Cropper | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse |
Posted by Praveen Paritosh, Senior Research Scientist, Ka Wong, Senior Data Scientist
Every day, participants of online communities form and share their opinions, experiences, advice and social support, most of which is expressed freely and without much constraint. These online discussions are often a key resource of information for many important topics, such as parenting, fitness, travel and more. However, these discussions also are intermixed with a clutter of disagreements, humor, flame wars and trolling, requiring readers to filter the content before getting the information they are looking for. And while the field of
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Source:: Coarse Discourse: A Dataset for Understanding Online Discussions
by Michael Cropper | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse | Over the past year, developers have adopted the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology to build faster-loading pages for all types of sites, ranging from news to recipes to e-commerce. Billions of AMP pages have been published to date and Google Analytics continues its commitment to supporting our customers who have adopted AMP.
However, we have heard feedback from Google Analytics customers around challenges in understanding the full customer journey due to site visitors being identified inconsistently across AMP and non-AMP pages. So we’re announcing today that we are rolling out an enhancement that will
Source:: Google Analytics is Enhancing Support for AMP
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