If you thought the Internet freaked out for a little bit and every site you went to was down, you’re not alone. Major websites were down: CNN, Huffington Post, ESPN, Gawker, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, etc. were all broken. Why? Because of a glitch with Facebook. More »
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A Facebook Bug Pretty Much Took Down the Entire Internet
It sounds like the plot of a movie: two major software corporations join together to shut down an evil global cyber crime operation and engage in wacky hijinks along the way. While the latter can be neither confirmed nor denied, according to an exclusive report by Reuters , Microsoft and Symantec did shut down servers that had been controlling hundreds of thousands of PCs without their users being any the wiser. More »
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Microsoft and Symantec Just Busted a Major Cyber Crime Ring
3-D printers can produce gun parts, aircraft wings, food and a lot more, but this new 3-D printed product may be the craziest thing yet: human embryonic stem cells. Using stem cells as the “ink” in a 3-D printer, researchers in Scotland hope to eventually build 3-D printed organs and tissues. A team at Heriot-Watt University used a specially designed valve-based technique to deposit whole, live cells onto a surface in a specific pattern. More »
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A 3D Printer That Generates Human Embryonic Stem Cells
cathyreisenwitz writes “For over a year now journalists, civil liberties advocates, and members of Congress have been asking the Obama administration to release internal memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel justifying Obama’s targeted killing program. While the White House continues to deny that such memos exist, NBC is reporting that it has acquired the next best thing: A secretish 16-page white paper from the Department of Justice that was provided to select members of the Senate last June.” Spencer Ackerman at Wired says the leaked rules “[trump] traditional Constitutional protections American citizens enjoy from being killed by their government without due process” by redefining the concept of “imminence.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Leaked: Obama’s Rules For Assassinating American Citizens
Freedom! It’s been a long time coming, but following last week’s iOS 6.1 release , there’s finally a jailbreak that’ll work on your iPhone 5 , and it extends to pretty much every other iOS 6.1 device out there too. More »
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The iPhone 5 Jailbreak Is Finally Here
After hacking up government websites last week , and the week before , Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push their agenda of reforming computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz’s suicide . This time, they’ve leaked names, addresses, and other information about over 4,000 bank executives . And they did it all on a government site. More »
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Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a Government Website
If you’ve ever messed around with Linux, you’re probably familiar with a little program called ” Wine ,” WINdows Emulator/Wine Is Not an Emulator. With its magic, you can run Windows applications on your Linux box (as well as other operating systems), and soon, Wine could be running them on your Android phone as well . More »
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Full-Fledged Windows Apps Could Be Coming Soon To Your Android Phone
It’s one thing when malware attacks your phone, but it’s another when that same malware hops over to your PC and then uses it to listen in on all your conversations on top of just messing with your phone. A newly discovered Android app—one that’s in the Google Play store— can do just that . Beware. More »
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Terrifying Android Malware Hacks Your PC and then Eavesdrops On You With Its Microphone
An anonymous reader writes in with news of the continuing saga of Java patches and exploits. “If you’re a Mac user who suddenly can’t access websites or run applications that rely on Java, you’re not alone. For the second time in a month, Apple has silently blocked the latest version of Java 7 from running on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher via its XProtect anti-malware tool. Apple hasn’t issued any official statements advising users of the change or its reasons, but it’s a safe bet that the company has deemed Oracle’s most recent update to Java insecure. That’s why the company stealthily disabled Java on Macs back on Jan. 10, the same day a Java vulnerability was being exploited in the wild.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7
The fastest microchips we have can only pass their data from side to side and front to back, no matter how close their components are squeezed together. A new chip developed by researchers at University of Cambridge, on the other hand, can pass data up and down too, making for the world’s first truly 3D microchip . More »
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Scientists Have Made the First Truly 3D Microchip