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  • Financial paper hacked by Syrians Financial paper hacked by Syrians

    Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

  • Hackers target important Saudi websites Hackers target important Saudi websites

    The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

  • Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets

    The headquarters of Unit 61398, center, in Shanghai. The unit of the People's Liberation Army is believed to have resumed its attacks on American companies and government ...

  • Computer visionary says he knows who invented Bitcoin

    baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code and hundreds of posts on Bitcoin, Nakamoto sent a note to a developer in April 2011 saying that he had "moved on to other things." Later ...

  • Adobe unplugs Creative Cloud sync tool during transition

    The company apologized after an Instability forced it to take the preview version of a synchronization tool offline earlier than expected. The service syncs files on mobile devices, the Web, and ...


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30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less is a hyped-up comedic fictionalization of an actual event that occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2003, in which a middle-aged pizza delivery man was supposedly forced to rob a bank by a trio of men who latched a homemade timebomb around his neck. The ... ...

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  • Yahoos board approves $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition WSJ

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday.Such an acquisition would be Marissa Mayer's largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic Internet company in July 2012. Yahoo is keen on fast-growing Tumblr ...

  • Disruptions Disruptions Robots as Home Health Care Aides for the Elderly

    Robot & Frank ," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going to a medical center for Alzheimer's treatment when the son interrupts him. "I brought you something," he says to Frank. Then the son pulls a large, white humanoid robot from the trunk of his car. Frank watches in disbelief. "You have got ...

  • 2 men arrested in killing over iPad in Las Vegas

    According to investigators, 15-year-old Marcos Arenas was walking down a street with the iPad on Thursday when a vehicle stopped and one of the suspects got out and tried to steal the device from ...

  • Yahoo to buy popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion Report

    If the acquisition takes place, it would be the biggest for Yahoo under Mayer and come in the wake of other pricey deals for startups, such as Facebook's acquisition of the photo app Instagram for stock worth $1 billion at the ...

  • Google Americas third political party

    (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won't go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant "no." It's not a purposeful no. It's just a refusal for the sake of it, couched in principle. Then along comes America's most ambitious politician. No, it's not Paul Ryan or ...

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