Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, antivirus company McAfee said Thursday. Search strings using Diaz’s name have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site infected with or spreading malware, said Dave Marcus, McAfee’s director of security research and communication. Search for “Cameron Diaz and screensavers,” and the risk doubles, Marcus added. As [...]

Facebook is battling a lawsuit filed by a New York man who claims he owns 84 percent of the social-networking company. Paul D. Ceglia of Wellsville, N.Y., claims in a lawsuit (see below) that he entered into a contract with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 to design and develop a Web site that would ultimately become the social-networking giant. The contract entitled Ceglia to a $1,000 [...]

Video analytics company Visible Measures — the one mashable work with to put out our monthly top 10 webisodes chart — curates a list of video called the “100 Million Club.” It includes all the web videos that have exceeded 100 million views. Lady Gaga has long been a staple of the chart, but now she’s essentially in a club all her own: She’s the first franchise to reach one billion views. Gaga’s [...]

Microsoft’s brass is always looking for the next billion dollar business and has stuck a toe into everything from healthcare to energy monitoring. But as the company’s second quarter earnings for fiscal 2010, which Microsoft released on January 28, show, Windows is still the big wheel that keeps on turning in Redmond. Consumer sales of Windows 7 buoyed Microsoft to report record earnings, even [...]

There has been great controversy regarding recent statements made by televangelist Pat Robertson of the 700 club regarding the 7.0 Haiti earthquake that has devastated the nation and sparked a desperate race for the delivery of aid and rescue efforts. The comment that has been called into question is in regards to the earthquake being a ‘blessing in disguise’ and that the people of Haiti are cursed [...]

If you have still not been alerted by our earlier story on the 2010 Annular solar eclipse, here we go again. Today is the day you will witness the longest solar eclipse of this century take place. The annular solar eclipse would be visible in most parts of India but only the southern fringes of the country will see it as an Annular eclipse. For the rest of the country, it would be a partial solar [...]

A sheep gave birth to a human-faced lamb that officials believe was the result of a relationship between the ewe and a man. Multiple Internet news organizations are reporting that the lamb was born in a Turkish village. It was dead at birth. A veterinarian was the first person to notice that the lamb’s snout resembled a human face. Village locals burned the goat’s body before biologists [...]