The social network will lay off up to 336 employees, or about 8 percent of its workforce, as it looks to streamline its operations, Dorsey said Tuesday.

Known for the brevity and speed of users' posts, Twitter has been struggling trying to engage to a broader audience.

Twitter had 4,100 workers around the world, half of them engineers and the rest spread among administrative and marketing, as of June 30.

Twitter's stock rose as much as 5 percent Tuesday on news about the layoffs.

One of the hidden features of XML-RPC is that you can use the system.multicall method to execute multiple methods inside a single request. That’s very useful as it allow application to pass multiple commands within one HTTP request.

Instead of going against wp-login.php (which can be easily blocked or protected via .htaccess) or doing a single attempt against xmlrpc, attackers are leveraging the system.multicall method to attempt to guess hundreds of passwords within just one HTTP request.

"We believe this transaction instantly gives us a market leading position in password management, while also providing a highly favorable foundation for delivering the next generation of identity and access management solutions to individuals, teams and companies," LogMeIn CEO Michael Simon said in a statement.

One commenter to the announcement wrote, "Oh no! This is NOT good news. logmein has a terrible track record with acquisitions. I feel story for the LastPass team, your management has sold you out. Good luck finding new jobs. [Has] anyone got any good recommendations for alternative password managers? Time to jump ship before this ship sinks."

Caribbean and South Pacific ISP Digicel has started blocking Google and Facebook ads from appearing on the company's mobile network in the apparent belief that the service provider is owed a slice of these companies' ad revenues. In a notice posted to the Digicel website, this move is framed as something that was motivated purely for altruistic, pro-consumer reasons.

Microsoft announced some major new developments surrounding its cloud-based big data processing capabilities in advance of AzureCon, a free virtual event that kicks off Sept. 29.

"The Data Lake Store provides a single repository where you can easily capture data of any size, type and speed without forcing changes to your application as data scales," stated Rengarajan in a Sept. 28 announcement. "In the store, data can be securely shared for collaboration and is accessible for processing and analytics from HDFS [Hadoop Distributed File System] applications and tools."

Access to the Web is key to increasing quality of life, Zuckerberg added, saying it not only helps people communicate but can also help lift them from poverty.

Critics of these programs say the companies stand to benefit from expanding pools of people using their services, which primarily make money from advertising. Others complain the businesses are also trying to create de facto monopolies on Internet access.

If it seems like major services have been crashing a lot lately and for extended periods, you're not imagining things. A cluster of crashes has plagued users of a wide variety of high-profile cloud services in the past month.

There's nothing magical about the cloud. "The cloud" is just somebody else's computers located somewhere else. All the problems that exist in one's own data-center can exist within the cloud services.

The cloud comes with a certain degree of helplessness.

Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have been hit by a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing many sites down with it in the process.

Amazon said it was recovering from the database blunder, but as part of the fix the company was forced to throttle APIs to recover the service.

One of the most important aspects of the iOS 9 launch was that ad blocking software is now allowed on the App Store. Ad blocking apps rocketed to the top of the store's rankings, led by Marco Arment's Peace. A day afterward, Arment talked about the cognitive dissonance he felt from having his software blocking the (admittedly well-behaving) ads on his own website. Now, Arment has pulled Peace from the App Store, saying its success "just doesn't feel good."

The American web goliath has taken legal action against the smaller biz in the northern district of California, alleging Local Lighthouse uses nuisance calls to sell its services. Google accuses the Costa Mesa, California-based SEO gang of breaking laws on trademarks, unfair competition, and false advertising.

Google claims Local Lighthouse sales representatives were introducing themselves as "Google Local Listing representatives" – and had been using software to play pre-recorded messages to people in cold-calls, or in other words: robo-dialers.