The microblogging service Twitter is testing a new type of profile on a small number of users and replacing the usual retweet with a “share” button. This is reported by The Next Web . Twitter didn't stop at introducing new photo-related features and continued to test design-related innovations. Some users included in a small sample of the company's experiments report changes in the appearance of profiles and even the usual retweet button.

On March 25-27, a DDoS attack hit the websites of Habrakhabr and the Internet bank Tinkoff Credit Systems. The attackers publicly announced this on Twitter and communicated with service representatives, demanding a ransom to stop the attack. On March 25, hackers from the Pump Water Reboot group (that’s the name of their Twitter account) informed Tinkov that they had launched an attack on his bank’s website. Tinkov pretended that he didn’t care.

The Wall Street Journal presented a special project dedicated to Emoji icons The Wall Street Journal presented a project dedicated to Emoji icons. It allows you to find out the history of their appearance and imagine how ordinary news headlines and titles of books, films and songs would look in pictograms. WSJ's Emoji Uncovered site has four sections. In the first one you can read the history of the appearance of Emoji.

Vladimir Putin announced at a meeting with senators that Russia would create its own payment system. reports this Interfax . Russia will create its own payment system like Visa and Mastercard. The President compared the potential of such an initiative with similar systems that have emerged in China and Japan. In countries such as Japan and China, these systems work, they work very successfully.

A new Internet hero has appeared in St. Petersburg A new Internet hero has appeared in St. Petersburg, “conquering horizontal surfaces.” TJournal spoke with the creators of the project about its future. A new St. Petersburg Internet character, “Superficial Georgy,” publishes in his group photographs taken in different locations of the city and united only by the title character. VKontakte Georgy conducts fascinating experiments with surfaces.

The anonymous FireChat messenger for iOS from Open Garden became a hit in many European and Asian countries, reaching 100 thousand downloads per day on March 25. GigaOm reports this. On March 25, the creators of FireChat recorded 1.14 downloads per second. The application was among the top ten most popular free social programs in the AppStore in Switzerland, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Norway and Spain, becoming an unconditional hit in Chile and Taiwan.

The cherry blossom season has opened in Japan. TJournal collected photos of this process from Instagram The cherry blossom season has opened in Japan, the symbolic flower of spring, which also signifies the ephemerality of human life. Families of all classes go to parks and gardens for hanami, picnics under cherry blossoms.

PGP co-author and Bitcoin pioneer doubts whether Dorian Nakamoto is truly the creator of the cryptocurrency Author: Mikhail Kafanov In early March, Newsweek managed to track down the alleged creator of the cryptocurrency in the small town of Temple City, California. A few weeks later, representatives of the Bitcoin community found out that another cryptocurrency pioneer, Hal Finney, lived in the same city with a population of 35 thousand people.

Microsoft officially unveiled Office apps for iPad at a special press event in San Francisco. This was reported by The Verge . After years of rumors , Microsoft Word , Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power Point became available for download on the App Store. The suite of applications was officially unveiled and launched by Microsoft Office general manager Julia White as part of a special press conference by new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The history of the Million Dollar Homepage and its creator Alex Tew The editor of the Quartz website, at the request of readers, analyzed the once popular website milliondollarhomepage.com - and it turned out that over the next eight years, a fifth of the links “broke” and did not lead anywhere. TJournal recalled how the Internet site appeared and “blew up”, as well as what else its creator Alex Tew was doing. In 2005, Briton Alex Tew needed money to study at university.

Deputies are going to introduce punishment under extremist article No. 282 for bloggers who incite xenophobia against Crimea. reports this Nezavisimaya Gazeta . Moscow deputies are going to fight against unpatriotic bloggers who make anti-Crimean statements. Such assessments are planned to be classified as extremist, which, under Article No. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, threatens with fines of up to 500 thousand rubles and imprisonment for up to four years.

Daniel Hashimoto, an animator at Dreamworks, turns ordinary home videos of his young son into superhero videos. This was reported by The Creators Project portal . American Daniel Hashimoto started a YouTube channel Action Movie Kid , where he publishes short videos with his son James. He improves videos shot with an ordinary home camera using the AfterEffects program, adding incredible superpowers or gadgets from popular science fiction films to his son.

Applications from Google Play, downloaded millions of times, were secretly mining dogecoins and litecoins. reported this in its report Trend Micro . apps were caught secretly mining cryptocurrencies The Songs and Prized . According to Google Play, the first of them was downloaded from 1 to 5 million times, and the second - from 10 to 50 thousand. At the time of writing, Songs is still available for download, and Prized is not in the app store.

Hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan will release only one recording of its new album, which will be available to stream at special events but not re-recorded or purchased digitally. reports this Forbes . Once Upon A Time In Shaolin record case In recent years, musicians have found it difficult to sell physical recordings of their albums, so they are increasingly releasing them in the form of expensive exclusive editions intended for the most ardent fans and collectors.

The Turkish government has blocked access to YouTube after video recordings of secret meetings on the country's security were leaked to the video hosting site. This was reported by the Hurriyet Daily News . Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan On March 27, the YouTube video service was blocked in Turkey. When checking the website of the Turkish Telecommunications Department (BTK), a message is displayed stating that the site is unavailable.