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Activist Swartz indicted for massive MIT and JSTOR data theft

Programmer, activist and former Wired writer Aaron Swartz has been indicted for stealing millions of documents from JSTOR using MIT's networks.
Web News

Facebook launching news platform Facebook Editions in September

Facebook is planning to launch a new service called Facebook Editions which will create app versions of your favorite news outlets.
Social Media News

Microsoft introduces two new Hotmail security features

Banning common passwords and implementing a new alert system, Microsoft's new Hotmail security features are making hacking harder
Web News
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U.S. law enforcement adopting new smartphone criminal recognition tech

law enforcement agencies all over the U.S. are planning on adopting new smartphone attached tech called MORIS to streamline identifying the bad guys.
Emerging Tech News
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New Evil Dead movie revving up for production

The latest film in Raimi's cult horror franchise is revving up production with confirmation by Campbell and a director already picked out as well.
Entertainment News

Minnesota Wi-Fi hacker gets 18 years in prison for terrorizing neighbors

A man from Blaine, Minnesota has been given an 18-year sentence for waging a war against his neighbors using Wi-Fi hacking skills.
Web News

Anonymous hits the Booz, 90K military emails compromised

Anonymous' latest attack "Military Meltdown Monday" has cost the U.S. Department of Defense 90,000 emails and passwords.
Web News

Orkut will continue alongside Google+, possible future osmosis

Google plans to keep Orkut running alongside its new Google+ and may be absorbed somehow in the future.
Social Media News
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Artist gets Secret Service visit because of Apple store spycam project

Apple stamps down hard on an artist who set up security cameras in their New York apple stores. Secret Service were called in to slap him with a computer fraud charge. Crook or gutsy artist?
Web

Jellyfish invasions shut down three nuclear power plants

Nuclear power plants have gotten a break from Tsunamis and Earthquakes and instead face an invasion of jellyfish. Three power plants have been forced to shut down recently.
Emerging Tech News

Google launches solution-based social gaming site Prizes.org

Google's latest social gaming launch Prizes.org gives you cash prizes for solutions to community problems.
Social Media News

Taco Bell jumping on Wi-Fi bandwagon, will have free access by 2015

Taco Bell Corp in a recent partnership with indoorDirect, hopes to have free Wi-Fi access in all restaurants by 2015
Web News

UK researchers developing 3D printer that crafts with chocolate

UK researchers led by the University of Exeter are developing a 3D printer that crafts custom objects using chocolate.
Emerging Tech News

Google Realtime loses Twitter feed, will replace with Google+

Google Realtime search has been disabled due to contract issues with Twitter but the company plans a relaunch with Google+ content.
Social Media News

Anonymous’ third attack turns Arizona police and FOP into punching bags

Anonymous hits Arizona once again defacing FOP sites, releasing PD documents and generally turning these groups into punching bags.
Web News

Go Daddy will be sold to group of investment firms for $2.25 billion

Go Daddy announced that they were being sold to a group of investment firms led by KKR, no changes will be made in the company's business apprach.
Web News

Is Facebook launching an ‘awesome’ iPad feature next week?

Mark Zuckerberg let slip that a new "awesome" feature will be unveiled next week. Many are speculating that it could be the rumored iPad app.
Computing News
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Anonymous launches WikiLeaks inspired HackerLeaks site

A new website called HackerLeaks launched by Anonymous wants to fill the vacuum left by WikiLeaks with hacker stolen data.
Web News

TDL-4 creates 4.5 million PC ‘indestructible’ botnet

New malware TDL-4 has features that may make it indestructible, enslaves over 4.5 million PCs in early 2011
Computing News

California tax law forces Amazon to withdraw associates program

A new law signed by Gov Jerry Brown is forcing Amazon to withdraw from the state to avoid paying sales tax.
Computing News
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Amazon customer data to fuel companies’ new ad network

Amazon has a large data set of customer buying habits which, along with Tigget, it will be using to fuel a new ad network venture. Privacy concerns?
Computing News

LulzSec changes wardrobe, hits Brazil, Anguilla and Zimbabwe governments as AntiSec

The new LulzSec AntiSec incarnation keeps on hacking, exposes data from the Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe governments and more.
Computing News
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Will Capcom’s new Resident Evil perma-save cut into used game sales?

Capcom's latest Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D may be cutting into used game sales with it's one-save-for-life feature.
Gaming News

New lawsuit hits Sony, says company ignored security warnings

A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Sony claiming the company knew but didn't care about their weak network security issues.
Computing News

Australian ISPs to voluntarily filter net, nervous about hack reprisals

Major Australian ISPs are agreeing to filter using Federal lists of child porn sites, but are nervous about hacktivist attention from the likes of LulzSec and Anonymous
Computing News

LulzSec hits Arizona police computers, reveals sensitive data

Arizona police officials get their computers hacked by Lulz Security who uploaded a huge file of sensitive data onto a popular file sharing site.
Computing Best Ofs

Official ‘The Hobbit’ sneak peak, Martin Freeman’s huge feet

Official sneak peak behind the scenes at The Hobbit with shots of Gandalf and Martin Freeman's Bilbo, as well as the biggest hobbit feet so far.
Entertainment News

Foursquare’s upcoming AMEX partnership helps users check-in to better deals

A new partnership with American Express is helping Foursquare users to more significant deals and shows that the company is growing up.
Mobile Deals

FBI seizes DigitalOne servers in Virginia raid

The FBI has raided DigitalOne servers in Virginia in a hunt for hackers.
Computing News

Hulu tempted to sell by mystery bidder

Hulu is being tempted to sell by a mystery bidder who's reaffirming the streaming video's company's pivotal spot in the online video world.
Computing News

Hacker vigilantes Web Ninjas lashing out at LulzSec

Web Ninjas, the hacking group with possible ties to Th3J35t3r, is lashing out at LulzSec and claiming to have exposed their leader Sabu.
Computing News

Ultrasonic payment service Zoosh bridges NFC gaps

Sunnyvale based Naratte is developing an alternative mobile payment option. Zoosh may be able to cover all the current gaps in NFC technology.
Mobile

Bill to legalize Online poker betting coming soon

Rep. Joe Barton is readying an online poker bill which legalize processing payments may introduced next week.
Computing News

Spam storm clogs the Kindle self-publishing platform

Amazon's Kindle self-publishing is getting clogged with super cheap low quality spam.
Computing News
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