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3D Printers are Only the Vanguard for the Era of the Physible
As we adventure into our new-found future and legislation struggles to keep up with technology with Big Media companies fighting tooth and nail against digital copying what happens when we invent an era where physical copying is possible. This is the world of futurism and it’s also the domain of science fiction authors—but it’s also nearly today. ...
Digital Sales Continue to Bloom but Big Music is Stuck in the Past
Digital distribution and sales continue to move forward and have found themselves a bright niche in our Internet-connected world. As a result of having almost instant access to downloadable music and music services have caused people to flock to them and it’s obvious that people are extremely happy to spend their money on licensed music. ...
Anonymous Deletes CBS.com and Downs Universal in #OpMegaupload
Sunday brought some strange events to the Internet and one of them happens to be that hackers believed aligned with Anonymous made it look as if hackers broke into CBS.com and deleted the contents. This isn’t the usual DDoS attack washing a site away with so much traffic that it cannot respond—visitors were greeted instead ...
Megaupload.com Debacle Spawns Largest Anonymous DDoS Attack Yet
Yesterday, authorities announced a raid on Megaupload—a now popular Hong Kong-based file sharing site locked in a dramatic legal spat with Universal—a mere day after the highly publicized web-wide SOPA blackout date. The action brought the hactivist collective Anonymous buzzing down from the Internet as if the movie and music industry and the US government ...
GM Innovates Augmented Reality “Smart Glass” Technology for Back Seat Drivers
In what feels like it could be a better innovation for windscreen dashboard gauges, Detroit-based General Motors is pushing forward a program to make backseat riders less bored during a drive. Looking at psychological reports that passengers in the backseat feel disconnected from their environment, they asked researchers to come up with a design for ...
Bitcoin Sneaks Into Popular TV Drama via The Good Wife
It’s always a good sign when a particular underground innovation finds its way into popular media—and although I’ve been wondering when it would show up on “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order as some sort of badly designed drama it appeared on CBS’s legal thriller The Good Wife instead. During the episode in question a enigmatic maker of ...
Israel vs. Saudi Arabia Hacks Heating Up as Israeli Hackers Respond In Kind
Monday, we reported that Saudi Arabian hackers—one under the handle of ox0mar and with the group named Group-xp—hit Israeli financial sector websites and an airline carrier causing both considerable lag but did not take them offline. This came shortly after last week’s publication of 400,000 Israeli credit card numbers (a small percentage of which were ...
CloudFlare Develops Anti-SOPA/PROTECT-IP App Just in Time for Blackout
Tomorrow will be a big day for sites protesting against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” dubbed the “Internet blacklist bill” by opponents and the PROTECT-IP bill. January 18 is the date set by numerous large websites and social media to darken themselves in order to protest and educate customers about these two bills before the ...
We’re Waiting: Hacker Threatened to Release Full Source Code for Norton Antivirus
Saturday, a hacker going by the handle of Yama Tough threatened via Twitter that they would release the source code of Symantec’s flagship antivirus software product Norton Antivirus on Tuesday. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,” Yama Tough wrote. The history of the potential leaked code is ...
Symantec Acquisition of LiveOffice Gives Business a Cloud Booster-Shot
Monday, anti-virus software vendor Symantec announced their acquisition of LiveOffice, cloud archiving and storage vendor. While being best known for their anti-virus and spam protection software, Symantec has also had a long history of suites for general computer maintenance and providing software infrastructure. This acquisition adds yet another reason to combine security with communication and ...