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Monday, 20 February 2012 12:34
Researchers find a way to place a single atom transitor with atomic level precision
Written by Sean Kalinich
If you are a fan of the Douglas Adams book, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and others in the five book trilogy) then you are familiar with the great super computer Deep Though and the computer that it built…
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Friday, 17 February 2012 11:22
Anonymous Threatens to Shut Off the Internet on March 31st, But How?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Anonymous is preparing to “shut off the internet” on March 31st. The move is in protest to things like SOPA, ACTA, and according to their statement; “irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own…
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 07:56
Apple's iPad could be banned from Export in China
Written by Sean Kalinich
Apple has been playing a dangerous game for some time now. They have been filing ambiguous patents and copyrights in the hopes that they can protect their mobile devices. For the most part this strategy was working just fine for…
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AMD has lost another high-level employee today. This time in the form of Eric Demers CTO of the AMD graphics division; although I have never met Eric I have heard of him from others and it seems there are mixed…
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:54
New MechWarrior game to be announced in 6 days?
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have another possible new game announcement. This one again comes to us from a reader phone emailed this one in. A new site called MWTactics.com has popped up on the internet. This one also has another counter which at…
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Anonymous had a rather big weekend starting off with taking down the CIA’s public website cia.gov. This was done through an interesting trick that appeared to be a combination of a DDoS and some DNS tinkering. On the day of…
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Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:27
Iran continues to block sites on the Internet
Written by Sean Kalinich
As we told you yesterday the government in Iran is working very hard to block connections to social networks and even email services. They have gone so far as to block the use of the SSL and TLS protocols (Secure…
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Friday, 10 February 2012 17:25
Anonymous takes down the CIA's Website UPDATE
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like Anonymous has succeeded in taking down the website of the CIA. After announcing a tweet at #YourAnonNews stating that the CIA site was about to go down at around 4:14pm the collective appears to have made good…
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Friday, 10 February 2012 13:23
TOR launches new osbfproxy project to bypass censorship.
Written by Sean Kalinich
I love old sayings. One reason is that some are just plain funny, but another is that so many are true. In this case the old saying is “If you squeeze something too tight it will slip out between your…
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Well now, it looks like Ironclad games could have a new game hitting the market soon. We received a heads up this morning that there is a new site called Soadagames.com open however; when you head to that link you…
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Friday, 10 February 2012 08:04
Another Flaw Found in Google Wallet... Back in 2011
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ok this one goes in the books for being really foolish of Google. Remember how we told you that cutting corners in the coding of Google Wallet allowed a crafty hacker to read the binary data and get your PIN?…
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 21:16
Windows 8 on ARM will work with Office... 15
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft has actually come clean on plans for Windows 8 on ARM. It seems that despite some earlier concerns that Microsoft would cripple the OS for non-X86/64 systems it will indeed release Windows 8 with support for Office. However, before…
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 13:10
EPIC now suing the FTC over Google Privacy Policy Changes
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like Google is having more problems today that just a security issue with Google Wallet. EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) has filed suit against the Federal Trade Commission in order to force them to stop Google’s planned…
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012 17:53
RAMBUS and nVidia settle long running patent dispute with a licensing agreement
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the all-time largest patent trolls RAMBUS (yes even bigger than apple) has finally settled a long running battle with nVidia and signed a licensing agreement with the GPU and SoC manufacturer. RAMBUS is famous for its underhanded dealings…
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 09:50
Anonymous releases PCanywhere source code to the wild
Written by Sean Kalinich
There are just some things that you should not do. One of those is never start a land war in Asia… um sorry wrong article; well one of the others you should never think that dealing with Anonymous is all…
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Monday, 06 February 2012 22:01
Motorola is asking for 2.25% of Apple 3G device sales...
Written by Sean Kalinich
The patent war between Apple and the rest of the world has become old news. To most people the continuous fighting back and forth over patents, designs, and copyright is boring and is causing the products offered by the companies…
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