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21 Jan 2010 09:27

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Tech: Yo hackers: Here’s the most likely password you’ll find on the Web

  • 123456 now, hack the Gibson source
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07 Nov 2009 23:40

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Politics: Wikipedia moves faster on Joseph Cao than everyone else

  • When you Google Joseph Cao, the text that comes up in the search says, ‘Joseph Cao has no family. He was born of Satan and lost a soul the day he voted against republicans. Cao’s father, My Quang Cao (born 1931), …’
  • An unsigned Wikipedia comment on the Joseph Cao talk page • Noting the speed at which his page was updated to come across as an evil liberal-supporting spawn of Satan. We hope that Mr. Cao threw baseballs around with his satanic father every once in a while. (Via @andrewottoson) • source
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28 Sep 2009 00:00

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Tech: Reddit got screwedit by a very ugly Javascript exploit

If you were thinking of visiting the aggregator, you should probably avoid it. The exploit, which fills comments with gunk like this, is that dangerous. source
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16 Sep 2009 20:14

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Tech: Google now owns the most unreadable Web tool ever

We hope that Google takes this technology and uses it to make their search engine harder to read. That’ll show ’em. source
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08 Aug 2009 11:52

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Music, Offbeat: Tree tunes: A sound designer makes a tree sing

Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

  • This guy is officially cooler than us. Diego Stocco, an Italian sound designer, hacked a tree to create music using only the tree and some high-tech recording equipment. And the result? Pretty awesome.source
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07 Aug 2009 12:31

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Tech, World: To silence ONE GUY, Russia had to take down Twitter

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  • The lack of logic and high level of selfishness here (on Russia’s part) is atrocious. Russian authorities tried to silence Cyxymu, a.k.a. “George,” for his stance on the Georgia conflict. (The timing was political.) But instead, Russia tried to shut down every major social network, causing the guy they wanted to silence to have an even bigger voice. Genius, Russia. Just genius.source
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31 Jul 2009 19:16

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Tech: Apple finally starts listening to hackers, patches the iPhone

  • After trying for weeks to convince Apple to fix their iPhone software, two security researchers revealed a scary method for hacking the iPhone using SMS. source
  • After feeling the wrath of negative PR contained in that message, Apple hurried and fixed the vulnerability, but you have to hook up to iTunes to fix it. source
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01 Jul 2009 23:53

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Tech: Here’s that new under-the-radar Firefox 3.5 feature you heard about

  • Have a MacBook/MacBook Pro? Three words: Twist between tabs. If you’re like us, you have three bajillion tabs open at any time, and it’s hard to move between them. Fortunately, CrunchGear has shown us the light, and it’s light in the form of using the MacBook’s multi-touch twist function (which you should seriously try in Photoshop) to switch between tabs. It’s seriously a tiny little innovation which you didn’t know you needed until you used it. source
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12 Apr 2009 13:03

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Tech: A 17-year-old was behind the StalkDaily Twitter hack

  • I did this out of boredom, to be honest. I usually like to find vulnerabilities within websites and try not to cause too much damage, but start a worm or something to give the developers an insight on the problem and while doing so, promoting myself or my website.
  • Mikeyy Mooney • Who claims he basically did it for purposes of self-promotion, shooting himself in his 17-year-old foot. Good job, jerk. We hate you and your cruddy Web site. • source
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07 Feb 2009 17:56

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U.S., World: 49 cities. 130 ATMs. One massively well-coordinated robbery.

  • $9 million was collectively stolen late last year – in just 30 minutes source
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