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• Crooks exploit public bug to plant adware on Yosemite Macs

  A vulnerability in OS X Yosemite that went public last month is being used by cyber criminals to plant adware on Macs, a security researcher said today.

• Bad vibe brews about Windows 10

  Windows 10's vibe on social media has soured since Microsoft launched the operating system last week, Adobe today said as it cited new data from its metrics platform.

• Will Facebook envy wreck Twitter?

  There's never been anything quite like Facebook. As a company, Facebook specializes in collecting, hoarding, keeping and engaging users. As a social network, it dominates the market with the largest user base. Facebook has a monopoly as the social network of choice for friends and families.

• Windows 10 picks up good vibrations, user excitations

  Windows 10 is buzz-worthy, Adobe said Wednesday as it cited data from its social media metrics platform that showed positive vibes about the new OS.

• Twitter mulling big changes to how you view tweets

  Desperate times call for desperate measures. For Twitter, that could mean a new approach to the way it displays tweets.

• Twitter surprises with a sales gain, but user growth lags

  Twitter reported a higher than expected increase in revenue on Tuesday, suggesting progress in the company's efforts to grow its ad sales.

• Hacker: 'Hundreds of thousands' of vehicles are at risk of attack

  A security expert who recently demonstrated he could hack into a Jeep and control its most vital functions said the same could be done with hundreds of thousands of other vehicles on the road today.

• Twitter will reconvene Flight for mobile developers

  Last year, Twitter sought to broaden the reach of its software by giving outside developers new tools at its first Flight conference. This year the company will try again, as the pressure on it to grow its user base has only increased.

• Some sharks have become social media stars

  When news of a shark attack on professional surfer Mick Fanning reached Costa Rica and 9-year-old Ella Strickland Sunday, she grabbed her mother's smartphone to see if the great white was one of the sharks she knows.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, July 15

  ,Intel's second quarter unlikely to shine, Hacking Team CEO says customers shouldn't worry, Google "forget" requests are mostly covering plain folks, and more tech news

• Fake Bloomberg news story causes Twitter shares to spike

  Twitter's stock spiked in midday trading Tuesday after a fake Bloomberg news report said the company had received an offer to be acquired for US$31 billion.

• Hacker group that hit Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft intensifies attacks

  The hackers that targeted Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft developers two years ago have escalated their economic espionage efforts as they seek confidential business information and intellectual property they can profit from.

• In Pictures: 7 things we hate about Twitter

  You probably either love Twitter for its quirkiness and brevity or see it as a pointless waste of time. After nearly a decade on the social scene, Twitter still needs to improve its user experience and fill in notable gaps in the service. These seven problems are long overdue for a fix.

• Config error at Boston-area hosting company takes down Reddit, others

  A Boston-area hosting provider briefly knocked several large services and websites dependent on Amazon and AWS offline on Tuesday night, thanks to a configuration error.

• Update: Google, Microsoft, Oracle back new R Consortium at Linux Foundation

  As foreshadowed on Twitter yesterday, a new R Consortium of major vendors launched today aimed at "strengthen[ing] both the technical and user communities," according to a Linux Foundation announcement.