Spain has pulled off a Net security coup and arrested three men suspected of the attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network among others. The thing is, those arrested are local Anonymous hacktivists, which is equivalent to whacking a hornet's nest.READ»
Did you know that Thursday's officially the fourth day of the week and there's an ISO 8601 international standard to prove it? No? Well, you'll be equally intrigued to learn what's been going on in the early news with our handy summary:READ»
A pop-up community center offsite at SXSW teaches sewing classes, engages Austin crafters, and even manages to turn those craptastic swag bags into something usable!READ»
What does wi-fi look like? It may seem like a silly question, but not to Timo Arnall and his collaborators on the "Immaterials" project, which combines clever design and technology hacks to visualize the electronic networks humming ...READ»
Microchips are made from silicon and plastic for a good reason: it's very easy to control and make sure each component is exactly like every other. But Dr. Jean-Baptiste Labrune of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs thinks that electronics made ...READ»
Sustainable design gets a lot of lip service in the design world -- but sometimes simple, even homely solutions have the most impact. The designers at Teague found this out firsthand when they decided to track how much water they used ...READ»
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein's new book, "Hacking Work" is about righteous rule-breaking. Here, the authors explain how, with a helping hand, you can improve your situation at work.READ»
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein's new book, "Hacking Work" is about righteous rule-breaking. Here, the authors explain how one bus company had a broken system and how a fix for it emerged.READ»
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein's new book, "Hacking Work" is about righteous rule-breaking. Here, the authors explain how most people are already hacking their work but just don't know it.READ»
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer of the iPhone and site of several tragic suicides, has been hacked--a mysterious prankster published an incisive, satirical job posting on the company's HR site.READ»
Some more information about the hack on Google's servers a few months back has come to light, and it's a little scary: The hackers were going after Google's universal password system, Gaia. READ»
Google, probably still sore after its fight with the spiky Chinese authorities, has nevertheless opened a new front in its battle against Net censorship: It's discovered a huge cyberattack against people who contradict the Vietnamese ...READ»
Here's one for the conspiracy theorists among you (you know who you are...and so do the guys in the van out front): That Chinese cyberattack late in 2009, targeting Google and other big names, was enabled by U.S. warrantless search ...READ»
Intel has come forward and shared the curious information that it was hit with what it terms a "sophisticated" cyber attack in January--and if Intel thinks the attack is impressive, it probably was (have you seen their commercials? ...READ»
The source of the attacks on Google and other American corporations has been traced to two schools in China, both of which are heavily implied to be covers for the Chinese government and Baidu, the dominant search engine in China ...READ»
Wikileaks is currently replaying the events of 9-11-2001 in a very unexpected way: It's releasing in roughly real-time chunks over 500,000 hacked pager messages that were transmitted that day. As a data source its chilling but ...READ»
Palm's just let loose the latest version of its innovative webOS (1.2) on the Pre-user world. It's packed with tweaks and enables 3G Amazon MP3 downloads over the air--but there's one important feature missing: the Pre still can't ...READ»
There has been ample speculation that the Apple TV will get a long overdue refresh during the September 9 Apple press event. And yesterday news surfaced
that shipping time for the device has leaped to 1-2 weeks, which could be an ...READ»
