Scribd has announced that it suffered a minor hack earlier this week. The hack seems to have targeted just user login information, meaning only e-mails and passwords were at risk. Scribd adds that they believe less than 1 percent of users were affected by the attack and that they have contacted every account asking them to reset their password.

Because of the way Scribd securely stores passwords, we believe that the passwords of less than 1% of our users were potentially compromised by this attack...We have now emailed every user whose password was potentially compromised with details of the situation and instructions for resetting their password...Our investigation indicates that no content, payment and sales-related data, or other information were accessed or compromised. We believe the information accessed was limited to general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords.

If you didn't receive an e-mail, you're probably not affected. If you're still concerned, Scribd has set up a website to allow you to check if your account was one of the affected accounts.

Nokia has announced that it will be closing its flagship store in Shanghai, China. Nokia is working on saving money and shutting down its failing retail stores should be a good way for the company to conserve its limited cash.

Nokia posted the closure announcement on Sina Weibo and only garnered 938 reposts in three days. The store originally opened in 2007 and outlived Nokia's London store, which closed in 2009. On the other hand, Apple continues to open Apple Stores across China, with three in Shanghai alone.

Apple's new Campus 2, also known as the "Spaceship" campus, is an expensive and complex undertaking. When the project was first announced, Apple budgeted around $3 billion. On a project of this magnitude, cost overruns are to be expected, but maybe not as large as Apple's.

New estimates put the cost of the new Spaceship campus at around $5 billion. That's around 66 percent more than what was originally budgeted. Adding insult to injury, the projected move-in date has been pushed back from 2015 to 2016. But Apple can't cancel the project as it is a monument to the late Steve Jobs.

However, Apple is looking to save some cash. They want to reduce the cost by around $1 billion by reducing the fit and finish of the building. This means being less detail oriented and not building it to the same iPhone-level quality standards.

The question is should Apple be focusing its energy on building new products rather than a new campus? After all, stock price has suffered in the past year.

NASA has said that they will not be sending any commands to the Curiosity rover for the next four weeks due to the alignment of Mars, the sun, and Earth. Their fear is that the sun could corrupt commands sent to Curiosity and result in unexpected behavior or damage system components.

The [communications] moratorium is a precaution against possible interference by the sun corrupting a command sent to the rover.

Curiosity will be operating in an autonomous mode, running off of commands sent up before the moratorium went into place. After May 1, Curiosity will be able to send back the results of its testing. NASA won't be completely out of touch with the rover as it will still be sending information back to let researchers know its still alive.

We will maintain visibility of rover status two ways. First, Curiosity will be sending daily beeps directly to Earth. Our second line of visibility is in the Odyssey relays.

You can expect to not receive any Curiosity updates during the next four weeks. After that, the team plans to conduct another drilling to confirm and extend what was learned from a drilling that took place in February.

Netflix has released an update for its Windows Phone 8 app to add support for Windows Phone 8 devices running 720x1280 resolution screens. Devices with this resolution previously had a black bar across the top of the screen. Not all phones needed to be updated. For instance, the Nokia Lumia 920 retained the aspect ratio of previous Windows Phone 7 devices. This update adds full support for the aspect ratio supported by Windows Phone 8.

If you're one of the unlucky ones that wasn't supported, you can download the updated app from the Windows store.

Famed movie critic Roger Ebert has succumb to cancer after a long battle. The Chicago Sun reported today that Roger Ebert passed away after battling thyroid and salivary gland cancer for the better part of a decade. His final blog post, penned Tuesday, alerted readers that his cancer had returned as a result of a hip fracture suffered in December.

The Chicago Sun, the newspaper for which he worked, has written a long piece recapping his life and achievements. It's a long, but good, read and I highly suggest you read it on the Sun's website.

I'm sure our readers will join us in wishing his family the best. He is survived by his wife, a step-daughter and two step-grandchildren. Our thoughts go out to his family.

Verizon's CEO has said that the company would be happy to follow in T-Mobile's footsteps and become a no-contract carrier if that is what consumers want. He noted that it's not too difficult to change to a no-contract model and the company is waiting to see how consumers react to T-Mobile's move.

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam:

I'm happy when I see something different tried. We can react quickly to consumers' shifting needs.

Dropping contracts isn't unheard of. Portions of Europe already operate without contracts and consumers don't seem to mind paying the full price for devices. Whether American consumers will be open to the idea remains to be seen. T-Mobile argues that consumers save money due to decreased monthly service fees.

AT&T has also expressed interest in dropping smartphone subsidies in exchange for lower monthly rates.

CNET obtained a copy of an internal memo sent by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that complained about their inability to intercept iMessage messages. This is just the latest of law enforcement complaints that new technologies make tapping communication more difficult.

Apple's iMessage utilizes end-to-end encryption making it near impossible for DEA to obtain copies of the message. They were able to discover the iMessage issue after requesting a record of text messages from Verizon. When they received the copies, they realized that the user had utilized iMessage. "It became apparent that not all text messages were being captured."

FBI director Mueller:

There is a growing and dangerous gap between law enforcement's legal authority to conduct electronic surveillance, and its actual ability to conduct such surveillance. We must ensure that the laws by which we operate and which provide protection to individual privacy rights keep pace with new threats and new technology.

Should Apple be required to implement a method to allow federal agents legal access to iMessage communications?

Facebook Home for Android will see monthly updates according to Facebook's director of mobile engineering, Cory Ondrejka. He said that every month the app suite will receive new features and existing features will be improved upon.

Ondrejka said that instead of focusing on a completely new OS or forking Android, the company wanted to focus on creating the absolute best mobile experience possible for its users. "With Home, it's not just mobile-first, but mobile-best," he said. "When we set up to build Home, we challenged ourselves to build up the best physical and real experience."

After the update announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage and announced that Facebook Home would officially release for download through the Google Play store for free on April 12th. Not all phones are supported on launch and a list of supported devices can be found here. Users without a supported phone were also offered the option of purchasing an HTC First, the first smartphone designed for Facebook Home.

All of the hype about Facebook Home has been centered on smartphones and not much has been mentioned about tablets. At this morning's event Cory Ondrejka, director of mobile engineering at Facebook, said that while not available at launch, Facebook Home will be arriving on tablets this year.

"We think this is a really great way to experience tablets. We're not going to be launching on tablets yet, but we'll be trying to get it ready in the coming months", said Ondrejka.

For those who use Facebook as their main form of communication I think that Facebook Home on a tablet is a perfect fit. The UI lends itself nicely to large screens, and the home screen feed is truly a thing of beauty when displayed on a large screen. Not much else was said about Facebook Home for tablets, but we will be sure to cover any further information as it is released.

At today's Facebook Home event Mark Zuckerberg and crew debuted Facebook Home, a new home-screen UI designed for Android devices that completely transforms your smartphone experience. Instead of focusing on apps, the new Facebook Home lets you focus on staying connected to people.

Chat head solves the age old problem of do you answer that text you just got or finish what you were doing. Chat head displays a little circular icon over your content that notifies you when a friend messages you. By tapping on your friends face, it will open the chat dialogue over your current "window."

Once you are finished with the message, simple tap again and it will return to the bubble-like icon. Chat head works with both Text Messaging as well as Facebook Messenger and which service you are using is denoted by the color of the chat's text bubbles. Green signifies a SMS conversation while blue represent a Facebook Messenger chat - just like how messaging works with Apple iMessage.

Each message from different friends is displayed in its own bubble with group chats having multiple photos in a single bubble. Message sessions can be removed from the screen by a long press and dragging the icon off the bottom of the screen.

Facebook has just posted a "Home" trailer to its official YouTube channel showcasing its upcoming Android home-screen replacement that focuses on your friends, rather than apps.

The above embedded video gives you a good hands-on look at Home and how it works. Clearly the focus here is big on friends and family and staying in touch, and up-to-date even more so than you probably already are.

So, are you excited about Facebook Home? You have to wait one week and you get to try it, if you have one of the Android devices that are initially being supported.

It looks like @evleaks was spot on once again. At the Facebook Home event, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has teamed up with AT&T and HTC to design a smartphone that was based around Facebook Home. HTC's Peter Chou stepped up on the stage and proudly presented the HTC First.

The HTC First is a very sleek and very minimalist looking Android phone that was solely designed with Facebook Home in mind and will come in four colors. "It's the only phone that has Home pre-loaded and optimized. That means you're going to have a unique experience", said Chou.

AT&T's Ralph de la Vega then took the stage to talk about AT&T's role in the Facebook Home experience. "This is going to be the best Facebook mobile experience ever, and it's going to be people-centered. We bought into that," he said. "What I like about the First is that it's an LTE device, as you would expect. This phone has the most immersive experience I've ever seen."

The HTC First will be exclusively available through AT&T and will retail for $99.99 on April 12th. No information was given on what hardware it runs or what version of Android it features. We are sure that information will be released shortly, though. AT&T is offering the HTC First through pre-order starting today.

The Facebook Home press event is just about done. As we've already covered, there is no new Facebook phone. What is new is the "Home", which is a new UI to replace the home screen of your Android device. The big part of it is "Cover Feed" which automatically shows you a stream of your friend's content from Facebook, as soon as you turn on your phone.

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Home will be available for download on a few Android devices on April 12 in the Play Store.

The devices supported initially include the HTC One, HTC One X / One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Note II.

What are your thoughts on Facebook Home and Cover Feed? Let us know if you're excited to try it out. I guess Apple being Apple and containing super tight control over their UI means there will be little to no chance of seeing something like this on the iPhone or iPad.

At this morning's Facebook Home event, Mark Zuckerberg debunked recent rumors that Facebook is building a phone. He cited that a great Facebook smartphone would only sell 10 million to 20 million devices, which would equate to reaching just one to two percent of its users.

Instead, Facebook "Home" is an entire user interface in the form of a suite of apps for your Android phone that focuses on people rather than apps. When you start your phone, you get a new home screen called "Cover Feed", which is an automatic scrolling feed that is generated from your friend's activities.

Cover Feed is the foundation of Facebook Home, and is very clean and refined. "There's no Chrome here, no nav, it's all content based." said Adam Mosseri, Director of Product at Facebook. He went on to say, "Typically, all you see is a clock and a snippet of an email or calendar. With Home, we offer more value with that screen."

The developers of the vastly popular Star Wars game Jedi Outcast, have released its source code in the wake of yesterday's closure of LucasArts. The development company has also released the source code to the games sequel, Jedi Academy, as well.

In a statement Raven said:

"Raven is sad to hear about the closing of LucasArts today, we respected them and enjoyed working with them over the years. We wish the best for all the talented people who were let go and hope they find good work in studios in the industry. We loved and appreciated the experience of getting to make Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy for LucasArts. As a gift to the persistently loyal fanbase for our Jedi games and in memory of LucasArts, we are releasing the source code for both games for people to enjoy and play with.

Those interested can hit up the Source #2 and #3 links below to download the source code. Users should note that there is no documentation, support or direction given with either download. If you do happen to create something awesome from the code, please let us know and you just might see it on the front page of TweakTown.

BlackBerry has shut the doors on it music streaming service. BBM was BlackBerry's version of a streaming service similar to Rdio or Spotify and this morning the company has announced that after April, the service will close for good on the grounds of a lack of popularity.

For those not familiar with the service, BBM let users download up to 50 tracks a month to listen to offline, but you could also connect to your friends and gain even more music to listen to. The idea was to have a more social interaction with the music and not just a vanilla "build a playlist" style app.

BlackBerry is advising users to begin transitioning to another service ASAP as everything halts at the beginning of May, but says that the shutdown date could change without notice. BlackBerry is not leaving users totally in the dark though as they are offering a free 30 day trial to Rdio premium.

Apple has tweaked the App Store UI in an effort to make age ratings on apps more visible. The new change is a small and stubble, but easy to notice notification box that is placed beside an apps developer information.

The change comes as consumer groups put pressure on the company to curb content that parents may consider too graphic or obscene for children. This new "Age Rating Box" will do little to prevent such exposure to kids though because as of this posting, the age rating does not show up in App Store charts or search results.

The company is also hoping that the new update will help put out some fires that has arisen over apps like Vine and 500px displaying pornographic material. Personally, I feel that kids will be kids, and they will find a way into things that they are not supposed to get into. A pretty new box of pixels is going to do little to stop that problem.

Samsung is set to release its WiFi-only point and shoot camera / smartphone mash-up this month. Samsung took the tech community by storm when it first released the Galaxy Camera which basically features a fully connected Galaxy smartphone on the back of a full featured point and shoot camera.

Now those who want a smartphone / high-end point and shoot camera, but hate the idea of a monthly data fee can rejoice as Samsung is finally going to begin shipping its WiFi only version just a mere three months after it was announced at CES.

The WiFi-only version of the Galaxy Camera will feature a 4.8-inch Super Clear Touch LCD, 16MP BSI CMOS sensor and 21X optical zoom. The Android Jelly Bean powered device will retail for about $50 less than its cellular data connected big brother, which retails at a price point of $500.

Just as web developers across the world were settling down to enjoy the good life, Google and Mozilla have walked in the door and thrown a wrench into their smoothly running machines. This morning both Google and Mozilla announced that they are moving their browsers to new rendering engines.

Google has announced that it has forked the popular WebKit engine off into a more "manageable for chromium" engine called Blink. Google says that Blink will focus on speed and simplicity, and will still hold true to its WebKit roots. Opera, who just switched to WebKit says that they will follow Google's lead and fully embrace and contribute to Blink.

In a blog post, Adam Barth, a Software Engineer at Google said:

"Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down the collective pace of innovation - so today, we are introducing Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit."

Not to be left out, Mozilla had its own announcement about a new rendering engine as well. Dubbed Servo, the engine is a collaboration between Mozilla and Samsung, and is coded in an entirely new language called Rust. It will not replace the Gecko engine current versions of Firefox are built around just yet, but the transition will take place at some point says Mozilla.