computers

Lulzsec’s Brief Reign Of Media-Hyped Terror Ends

11:45PM Max Read | Lulz Security is disbanding. The loosely organised group purportedly behind hacks on Sony, the CIA, the US Senate and the PBS website posted an announcement to code-sharing site PasteBin last night, along with a torrent of previously unreleased goodies. More »

Tony Blair Gets Hacked, Address Book Published

11:41PM Max Read | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s address book – including the names, phone numbers, and addresses of members of government, plus Blair’s own National Insurance Number—was apparently leaked to the public by a group of hackers on Friday. More »

How To Recover From An Email Disaster

5:23AM Brian Moylan | We’ve all done it before: hit the wrong button or pressed “send” too early and dispatched an email with disastrous results. Here are the most common gaffes and what to do the next time your electronic correspondence lands you in the doghouse. More »

Will.i.am Is Now Working For Intel

2:37PM Max Read | Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am was named the “Director of Creative Innovation” at Intel. What will he do? Apparently, Intel doesn’t even know. But it will be totally creative. And innovative. Creatively innovative. Directly creative. Creatively direct Boom boom pow!

School Girls Arrested For ‘Attack A Teacher Day’ Facebook Event

6:14AM Richard Lawson | Six tweenage girls from Nevada, the moral wasteland that bore demon Sharron Angle from its sandy loins, were arrested after police discovered a Facebook event they’d created that was dedicated to threatening certain teachers with violence. More »

Dude Faces Felony For Reading Cheating Wife’s Email

2:11AM Hamilton Nolan | Leon Walker, a 33-year-old Michigan computer technician, has been charged with a felony (and faces up to five years in prison) for using his wife’s password to read her email. Well, he had a damn good reason. More »

Twitter Under Attack From Porn-Hover Virus

11:43PM Richard Lawson | Repent! Flee! Social accessory Twitter has been besieged by a virus that sends you to porn and makes your Twitter tweet automatically, simply by mousing over a link, no clicking needed! The British Prime Minister’s wife is a prominent early casualty.

Apple Sell Twice As Many iPads As Many Estimated

3:58AM Ravi Somaiya | The iPhone sold 270,000 units on its debut weekend in 2007. Analysts at Piper Jaffray now say the iPad may have reached 700,000 – twice even the most generous pre-launch estimates – since it launched yesterday. [Bloomberg]

How Your Blog Will Be Used Against You

9:03AM Ravi Somaiya | Computers can’t read blogs. They don’t understand stories, you see. But those ‘scientists’ are teaching them, so eventually they can mine for immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see into our very souls. (For advertising purposes.) More »