The Technology newsbucket: trouble at Twitter?, World Cup infographic, Droid X destruct and more

Built to self-destruct. Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr. Some rights reserved A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team The CSI Horatio 4 pane comic meme generator with hosting >> Karolinagames Come on, you must be able to do one with your favourite tech joke involving David Caruso in his CSI:Miami role. Media and brand statistics from the 2010 World cup infographic >> Simplyzesty We can't see Paul the Psychic Octopus anywhere on it. What sort of infographic is that? Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it >> Techcrunch But it's Android! It's open! Isn't it? The Trouble at Twitter Inc >> Gawker Suggesting that someone other than Evan Williams - to be precise, COO Dick Costolo - is being prepped up for the chief exec job. Trouble in paradise? TaxPayers Alliance on Speed >> Letting Off Steam Analysing the Taxpayers' Alliance daft analysis of road traffic accident statistics. "[By the TPA analysis] If it weren't for those darned speed cameras casualty rates would have fallen to zero deaths per km by about 2012, and would continue into the negatives where new people spontaneously appear in places where there used to be accidents." Fake - Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple >> Fakeapp.com My new favourite app: developed by Todd Ditchtendorf, formerly at Apple, who decided there wasn't something like this around so he should invent it. Selenium web application testing system >> Seleniumhq Test websites remotely in various languages. Multiple platforms, multple browsers. PC rebound continues with growth over 22%, says IDC >> Digitimes PC days are here again. World share: HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and Asustek are the top 5 (the last two tied in fifth place). US share: HP, Dell, Acer, Apple, Toshiba. Firefox security test add-on was backdoored >> Netcraft Not good. "The rogue Mozilla Sniffer add-on was included in the Web Application Security Penetration Testing collection. This set of tools is popular within the security community, as it simplifies the process of discovering vulnerabilities in web applications. However, using the Mozilla Sniffer add-on would have introduced an unexpected vulnerability in any application being tested — whenever a login form was submitted, the add-on secretly sent a copy of the URL, password and other details to an IP address presumably controlled by the malicious author." You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious