The tour operator Svyaznoy Travel was criticized for its PR on the “hot topic” of the nationalist pogroms in Biryulyovo. But undeservedly: someone incited people without paying attention to the date of publication of the picture.

The Google Nexus 5 smartphone, which has not yet been officially announced, temporarily appeared in the Play Store online store. This was reported by Engadget . Some readers of the publication managed to notice the Nexus 5 model in the Google Play Store at a price of $349. As follows from the address of the page to which the image with the smartphone was linked, this price refers to the model with 16 gigabyte memory.

The St. Petersburg bar chain Killfish sent SMS spam to its customers, in which their friends were the recipients. This was done using the number substitution function. Clients of the Killfish bar chain began to complain in the company's official group about receiving unusual SMS messages with an invitation to a party. The sender numbers of these messages were the numbers of their friends.

The creator of the cult cable drama Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, admitted in an interview with the BBC that piracy largely contributed to the success of the series. The author of the idea, executive producer and director of many episodes of the series “Breaking Bad,” Vince Gilligan, said in an interview with the BBC that Internet piracy cannot be considered an unambiguously negative phenomenon. To be honest, I think there are two sides to this coin.

Experts explain the dangers of expanding the powers of the FSB in cyberspace On October 17, a bill was introduced to the State Duma that would expand the powers of the FSB in cyberspace. It introduces the department’s responsibility to respond to “information threats” to Russia. Vague wording can lead to misinterpretation. To avoid this, TJournal asked experts to comment on the initiative.

“The Diamond Arm”, “Well, Just Wait”, “The Walking Dead” and the rest in the week’s cubes Author: Alexander Sobolev A weekly, but always unexpected selection of cubes from a TJournal columnist. In today's episode: “The Diamond Arm”, “Just You Wait”, “The Walking Dead”, “Good Night Kids” and “Terminator 2”.

Deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky complained about the refusal of the administration of the social network VKontakte to block communities that incite ethnic hatred. reports this Reedus .

PlayStation 3 became the best-selling gaming console in the United States in September, reports the Gameindustry.biz portal . This is the first time in the last 32 months that it has managed to beat the Xbox 360. The latest report from the NPD Group, which monitors the US market (including the gaming market), reports that the PlayStation 3 console managed to surpass the Xbox 360 in total sales for the month for the first time since January 2011.

Randi Zuckerberg wrote the book Dot., in which she reminded children that surfing the Internet for a long time is harmful. reports this BuzzFeed .

Cemetery "Success" and posing dove Author: Zalina Marshenkulova This week, as always, hidden among ordinary and everyday news like the panic of postwomen over packages with vibrators were hidden real diamonds of drama. One of these diamonds was a message about how a certain man stole crosses from a cemetery in the village of Success. Perhaps he was moving towards some kind of personal success unknown to us, but he did not give any clear explanations for his actions.

Microsoft has released a free Remote Desktop application for remotely controlling a PC from mobile devices running iOS and Android . The release of Microsoft Remote Desktop for iOS and Android is timed to coincide with the release of the Windows 8.1 operating system. Third-party programs for remotely controlling PCs via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) have existed for a long time , but Microsoft itself was in this field for the first time.

blog The author of the Hipstermerkel on Tumblr collects versions of one photograph of Angela Merkel, processed differently in a graphics editor. The Hipstermerkel blog was launched on October 14, and within a few days the number of images collected in it exceeded one hundred. Each image is based on a photograph of Merkel published by Spiegel Online.

In the latest update of the Facebook application for iOS, it has become possible to edit the text of posts and comments, attach photos to comments, and trends have also appeared. This was reported by TechCrunch . In version 6.6 of the Facebook application for iOS, released on October 17, it became possible to edit the text of posts and comments, as well as attach photos to comments.

The leader of the NOFX group has put his organ up for sale on the Internet. The editors of the Vesti.ru website misunderstood the announcement and published a note that talks about the musician selling part of his body.

The founder of the startup Qbaka about life among the tech crowd of Silicon Valley Every week TJournal invites interesting Internet personalities to visit us to talk about life topics and forget about work for a while. Today we talked with the co-founder of the Qbaka service, ex-VKontakte developer, Andrey Mima about his life among the technology crowd of Silicon Valley in the USA. Tell me, how long have you been in the USA and who did you go there with?