Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Take Down Swiss Bank
Late Monday evening Swiss time, a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack by hackers took down the website of PostFinance, the...
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Carbon Nanotubes Are the New Blacker Than Black
The third-best thing about NASA’s announcement that it’s created carbon nanotubes one-nanometer diameter to make a paint blacker than...
Making Child Abuse Facebook Famous
You see…I am what they call a “fantasy-prone personality.” While dodging “suggestions” from people who, on most days, wisely...
Zombies Attack Your Mac (or PC)
When zombies want brains, they go to the Apple store. On the go for a quick snack, they look...
The International Space Station’s Desperate Careen Toward Privatization
As you probably know, the US Space Shuttle program will call it quits next summer with STS-135, planned for...
Don’t Get Smished this Holiday Season
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has sent out a warning about an increase in “smishing.” No, that’s...
Just How Much Did Sex Cost, Anyway?
So, you remember that whole thing about Sex.com, the URL fraudulently obtained by forged documents and used to generate...
Man Loses Twitter “Joke” Appeal for Threatening to Blow Up Robin Hood
The man convicted of “menace” after he Tweeted a “joke” threat about blowing up Doncaster-Sheffield’s Robin Hood Airport has...
Indonesia Buys Planes With Teeth
On this fine Armistice Day, what could honor peace more thoroughly than the news that Indonesia is buying a...
UK Man Charged With Obscenity For Private Text Chat
A Swanscombe man named Gavin Smith has been charged under the UK’s Obscene Publications Act based on a private...