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Russia’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Under Huge DDoS Attack
RUTracker, Russia’s largest BitTorrent tracker, has been dealing with the effects of a DDoS attack over the past 48 hours.
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Apple iTV detailed: It’s like a 42-inch iPad
In a rather unexpected twist, Canada's largest newspaper and newspaper of record has published details of Apple's upcoming iTV.
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Backdoor in TRENDnet IP Cameras Provide Real-Time Peeping Tom Paradise?
Nearly a month after a console cowboy identified a security vulnerability in Trendnet streaming IP cameras, Trendnet issued a security advisory. So far there have been 26 vulnerable models identified that allow voyeurs to spy in real time on homes and offices. Since many of the cameras were not registered, this vulnerability may remain an exploitable Peeping Tom paradise for a long time.
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QuickSilverScreen Streaming Links Site Calls It Quits
In the wake of the Megaupload raids and attacks on domains in the US and elsewhere, the administrator of yet another site has decided to call it quits. QuickSilverScreen (QSS) first appeared in 2004 but faced its first legal action 2 years later in 2006. Twentieth Century Fox asked the site to take immediate action [...]
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Anonymous Hacks Syrian President’s Email. The Password: 12345
Anonymous leaked emails from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's office -- using the embarrassingly insecure password '12345.'
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Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android
Adobe has confirmed that Google's new Chrome for Android browser does not, and will not, support Flash content. And Adobe is done taking the Flash browser plugin to new environments.
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The Most Prolific Hacker on the Internet: A One-Handed Shadow
Stories about hackers are notoriously difficult to illustrate. In fact, there is one hacker so elusive that only two images of him exist in all the internet, despite the fact that he is the most prolific internet hacker of all time. Now introducing: The Shadowy, One-Handed Hacker of Death.
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World's fastest lift will travel 3,281ft a minute
Japanese company Mitsubishi has developed technology to create the world's fastest lifts, capable of travelling in excess of 3,281 feet a minute.
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Dwolla's payment ambitions grow with $5M round
Dwolla has been grabbing attention for its next-generation payment system that bypasses credit card networks and connects directly into bank accounts. It's been on a roll and now investors have lined up behind the start-up, to the tune of $5 million in a Series B round.
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Woody Harrelson not cheered by Reddit
An 'Ask Me Anything' session turns into 15 minutes of pain as the actor only wants to talk about his movie, and Redditors want to talk about whose virginity he may have taken in high school. Read this blog post by Chris Matyszczyk on Technically Incorrect.
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NC State Engineers Boost Computer Processor Performance By Over 20%
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance by an average of more than 20 percent.
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Apple warns iOS developers: Don't monkey with App Store rankings
Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are.
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Do users really care whether the web is open or not?
Open-web advocates may long for a revolt against walled gardens, but in the end the success of a social network is determined by the willingness of users to put up with its restrictions. For Facebook, that is both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness.
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Groups: Congress Should Scrap SOPA, PIPA and Start Over
With Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), Congress needs to take a breath, step back, and approach the issues from a fresh perspective - About 14 million people participated in Jan. 18 online protests against the two bills... The bills would have harmed free speech, innovation, cybersecurity and job creation ... Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and lead sponsor of PIPA, has indicated he wants to push forward with legislation
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Toyota Predicts Plug-in Prius Will Get 95 MPGe
The plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version of Toyota's best-selling Prius hybrid, which is debuting in the U.S. next month and will be commercially available in 14 states this Spring (national rollout in 2013), was first supposed to be rated at around 87 MPG-equivalent. This alone would have been enough to put the plug-in Prius pretty high on the fuel-efficiency list, but after more testing, Toyota has revised its estimate and now says it is confident that the Prius PHEV will get 95 MPGe, which is 2 MPGe more than the Chevrolet Volt, which is rated at 93 MPGe. Be careful, though, as fuel-efficiency num
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Best Buy Survey Hints at 42-inch Apple TV Selling for $1,499
Best Buy has been sending out consumer surveys asking for people's opinions on potential products and services that could be released. It's a common practice for retailers to do this and normally no one would bat and eyelash at such a survey, but the fact that Best Buy is gauging customers, in detail, about an Apple brand HDTV has people wondering...
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Paramount "humbled" by SOPA protests even as CEO blasts "mob mentality"
Paramount, "humbled" by last month's SOPA defeat, wants to visit college campuses to discuss the challenges of "content theft." But last week the head of parent company Viacom denounced the "mob mentality" behind the protests.
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70 Groups Tell Congress To Put The Brakes On Any Further Efforts To Expand Intellectual Property
Over 70 different groups, including many who were central to the January 18th online protests against SOPA, have put together a letter asking Congress to put a halt to any attempts to further expand intellectual property laws. The key point:Now...
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How to get 5GB of free Dropbox storage
Dropbox serves as a rock-solid cloud storage service for millions of personal and business customers.
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Smartphones on pace to near 1 billion by 2015
The mobile-device explosion may be getting fueled in recent months by Kindle Fires and iPads, but smartphones continue to be the foundation of the incredible growth the mobile industry is experiencing.
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