Microsoft has banned a short list of countries from using its Windows Live services. Users in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea have suddenly discovered themselves coming up against "Error 810003c1".

Perusing Microsoft's support website...

A group of security researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that some social networking sites keep all the photos you upload and then delete.

16 websites, including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Blogger and Flickr had...