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The police are on a role again with two more devious hackers in custody and more warrants on the way. The kind folks of the hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous took another hit recently with a member from each in the slammer. This time one of them were homeless. A [...]

Linux has been around for quite a while now. It is still toted as one of the slimmest, stablest operating system around and it open source. Yesterday it turned 20 it being the date it was actually released to the world.

For obvious security reasons, the flight plans of Air Force One, and any other type of transportation the president of the United States takes, are kept top secret. Apparently one traffic controller in Japan didn’t see this as very important because he saw the information appropriate for his blog.

Reportedly North Korea is developing technology that can jam GPS equipment for up to 100 km away. They would have this equipment be used to tamper with South Korea’s operations over the border.  

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 have effectually changed many of the ways we do things in the United States. There are so many measures taken to hopefully lessen the chances of being caught off guard once again. One very noticeable change is the shear amount of surveillance of [...]

Electronic text has made a huge impact on the way we do things today. Just think, many people have given up newspapers, books, magazines, etc. all for electronic versions. The eBook was a dream and vision of one individual who would have them be free for all. Michael Hart died [...]

Objectivity is the goal of most news organizations. While we know that total objectivity is probably impossible to achieve, most organizations at least go out of their way to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interests. TechCrunch, on the other hand, is being accused of not following that media rule. [...]

Some updating and modernizing of copyright law could have made digital shifting legal. Now you can continue what you’ve been doing anyhow (we know you have) but be comforted with the fact that you’re not breaking the law.

The ongoing saga between Oracle and Google takes another interesting turn as Oracle starts “shredding” digital evidence. They were already told by the judge to, for all practical purposes, go back to the drawing board.  What’s the judge going to think when blog posts containing evidence start going deleted?

The battle between Oracle and Google wages on as Oracle seemingly loses another battle.  A judge in the case is telling Oracle that the amount of damages and the focus of the lawsuit ought to be rethought.  Will Oracle take the judge’s advice and overhaul their case against Google?