A 12-year-old Canadian boy has pleaded guilty to hacking government and police websites during the student uprising in spring 2012, creating computer havoc and causing $60,000 damage. According to a story published by the Toronto Sun, the boy traded pirated information to Anonymous in exchange […]
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Galaxy The galaxy is the most distant galaxy that has been discovered and has been designated at z8_GND_5296. It took light from the galaxy about 13 billion years to reach the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope. Both
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This bombshell was dropped by Republican Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers at a recent NSA hearing while interrogating American University College of Law professor Stephen Vladeck over his concerns about NSA surveillance programs. The already infamous quote was uttered by Congressman Rogers
Forums can be a great source of information. If you want to know how well a product is doing, if there are any issues and how frequent or severe, just search around associated help forms. A current topic right now is how Windows 8.1 is
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Windows 8.1 is Here Microsoft has rolled out Windows 8.1, an incremental update to its Windows operating system. Two key features that were missing from Windows 8 have been added. A new, modified Start button has been added. There was much complaining regarding the missing
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday was October 8th. Microsoft released a total of eight bulletins, four of which were deemed ‘Critical.’ One of the critical patches was to patch a security exploit that was present in all versions of Internet Explorer. In addition
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Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that allows some Apple iPad and iPhone users to speak natural language voice commands in order to operate their device and its apps. It was originally introduced in 2011 as part of the iOS 5 and iPhone 4s launches.
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Amazon Unveils the Kindle Fire HDX Amazon unveiled the newest version of the Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HDX. It sports a 7″ HDX display (1920×1200) with high pixel density (323 PPI), a 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Perhaps its most unusual feature is the
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Actually, the headline should probably read… “Microsoft Admits MSE is Bottom of the Heap, Recommends 3rd Party Antivirus – or does it?“. This story, complete with supposedly substantiating quotations direct from an interview with a Microsoft representative, is currently all the buzz. Here are just
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If you’ve been following the news since Edward Snowden broke the news about governments spying on their citizens you’ve heard names such as Prism and XKeyscore for several of the programs the NSA has initiated. Well, it turns out the FBI isn’t entirely innocent in
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BlackBerry Delays BBM for iOS and Android BlackBerry did not release its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for iOS and Android as expected on September 21st. An unreleased version of BBM for Android was leaked on several file-sharing sites. This was an older version of
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iTunes 11.1 is Here iTunes 11.1 was released by Apple this week in conjunction with the iOS 7 release. New features include: iTunes Radio – Apple’s answer to music streaming. It is ad-free for iTunes Match subscribers. Genius Shuffle – This will shuffle your music
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Ashampoo is preparing to launch a new contender in the competitive commercial anti-virus market with its Ashampoo Anti-Virus 2014, scheduled for official release on 25th September 2013. Now I wouldn’t normally get excited over a new anti-virus product but when such a reputable company is
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We first mentioned the excellent 3Defy Modeler online service way back in November 2011, you can catch up with that original article here: 3Defy – Add 3D effects to photos (online) We have recently received notification from Chris Wallace at 3Defy that they have now
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