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Some Flickr users were greeted by an ominous sight over the weekend: an email from the website saying that their private photos may have just spent the three weeks in public view. In the message sent out to the users, Flickr VP Brett Wayn apologizes for a "software bug" that rendered these photos widely visible for weeks, from January 18 to February 7, until Flickr could patch the hole.

Flickr images have had EXIF data available for as long as we can remember, but a new minor tweak to page design has made that information a bit more prominent. Now, when you click on an image, you'll see the settings clearly displayed on the right side of the image. Assuming you haven't scrubbed the data, it'll show the exposure length, aperture, ISO, and focal length.If you want more information, you can click through to see more the rest of the EXIF details, like the camera it was shot with, flash, exposure compensation, and all that other wonderful stuff.

With the announcement of Marissa Mayer as the new head of Yahoo! (for a reported salary of $100 million over five years), the internet put out a simple request.

Way back in 2007, Flickr made Picnik its built-in image editor. However, Google bought Picnik in 2010, and decided to kill off the webservice earlier this year. Facing the prospect of losing the ability to edit images within the site, Flickr has picked another webservice to pick up the slack, this time the HTML5 based Aviary.