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The lesson from LinkedIn's data breach? Most online passwords are easy nuts to crack.

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Want to help out your less tech-savvy coworkers and loved ones? Don't just upgrade their browser. Set them up with these tools so they can help themselves and hassle you less.

Firefox is one of the world's most popular desktop browsers, with more than 450 million users. But as the world increasingly turns to mobile devices to access the web, Mozilla is in danger of getting left in the dust. A recent Pew report found that roughly 68% of all smartphone owners access the mobile web on a typical day; what's more, 25% of those users go online mostly using their phone (rather than, say, a PC)

Good logos are like good friends: "When they show up wearing a mustache, with no explanation, you just go, 'Huh?'" says Michael Cronan, creative director at branding firm Cronan. But, of course, most logo changes are done for a reason. Cronan and partner Karin Hibma evaluate three recent ones

To compliment your online shopping, you can now download a toolbar that rates your purchases on health and environmental impact. Thinking of switching toothpastes?

Citelighter makes web research tools. CollegeHumor makes fun of everything.

Senators Al Franken and Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill yesterday that takes direct aim at online privacy.

"I'm smack in the middle of all of this, and it's hard to imagine legislation right now that we would know how to implement, or know what to do with," says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation.

Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price. But here's the catch: URLs themselves may not be long for this virtual world. Web URL Social.com is for sale, and since opening bids start at $5 million it could easily surpass Sex.com's $13 million price

Tweets are now worth a thousand words. As expected, Twitter announced today that they're adding photos to their core feature set. Users will now be able to attach photos directly to their tweets from within Twitter.com (and soon from the company's mobile apps as well), rather than having to use an outside service

01 / Yandex > > For mastering search. The internet search company Yandex is already three times more popular than Google in its home market (Russia) and this year, it made its move onto Google's international turf with the launch of an English-language search engine. One of Yandex's key advantages has always been the complexity of the Russian language, whose Lego-set of prefixes, roots and suffixes has forced it to be a step ahead in the nuance of its algorithms.

Shepherds of the web, from execs at Firefox to directors at Internet Explorer , have heralded HTML5 as the future of the Internet. Simply put, HTML5 is the latest revision to HTML, the core coding language of the web and the backbone of the Internet.

In January, Mozilla announced plans to add a "Do Not Track" feature to Firefox, a tool that would allow users to opt out from having advertisers and other sites track their web-surfing habits. As Mozilla has readily admitted , the feature is far from perfect: Backwardly, tracking companies would actually have to agree not to monitor a user's browsing patterns, even once he or she opts out

Last week, Mozilla VP of products Jay Sullivan indicated that HTML5 would eventually replace Adobe Flash. Along with Mozilla Firefox, every browser maker out there seems to be jumping on the bandwagon of HTML5, a term that has become the most overused buzzword in the tech industry. But HTML5 is more than just the "trend de jour," says Ryan Gavin, senior director of Internet Explorer