IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding Twitter users to be cautious when using the site, following news that the account of pop star Britney Spears was compromised by an attack via third party website, TwitPic.

Twitter apps, holographic mail cleverness, legal film streaming and more usefulness from Google caught our eye this morning in the weirdandbeard dugout. It's taken longer than usual to assemble this round up thanks to gremilns eating our InterWeb feed, but enjoy...

App bans, epizotics (find out what they are below),Twitter enhancers, and bad driving -- we've been abouty a bit this morning at weirdandbeard...

Social app tools for Twitter and from Google, censorship, new Kindles and technophobia all caught our attention post-Bank Holiday at weirdandbeard...

IT security and control firm Sophos is advising that Twitter hardens its security as a French hacker claims he broke into Twitter's internal administration system, enabling him to access the accounts of millions of Twitter users - including Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen.

Mind reading, pizzas, targetted advertising from Phorm, digital censorship and the power of social media all caught our attention here at WeirdandBeard this morning...

A new sudy has raised questions about the emotional cost of heavy reliance on a rapid stream of news snippets obtained through television, online feeds or social networks such as Twitter, especially for younger people.

iphone developments, new Firefox plug-ins, the death of Facebook and a way Twitter may finally be useful are all things that caught our attention today at WeirdandBeard...

When the comedians move in on Social Media, you just know it's in for a pasting, even though some comics, like Stepehn Fry, love it. This animated sketch pretty much sums up the views of some of the WeirdandBeard team on Twitter. Spupernews!, which this sketch comes from is sort of like the progeny of South Park and Mad Magazine, or The Daily Show meets The Onion, hatched live and raw to expand on that age-old tradition of satire.

• For more SuperNews! go to www.current.com/supernews

Privacy campaigners are up in arms over Home Office proposals to require social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to retain details of their users' movements on the internet.