Edward Korman, a United States district judge, has ruled that it is not unconstitutional to have your gadgets searched without a warrant when crossing American borders. This ruling came about during a trial in which the right to i...
It was revealed at the Chaos Computing Congress that there have been several attacks on European ATMs, in which thieves would cut holes into the machines and inserted their own USB drives, which allowed them to infect the machines...
20-year old Reddit user zcypher recently had to go to the hospital to get his inflamed appendix removed. After his appendectomy was complete, he left the hospital within 24 hours. Later on, he was given a bill that came up to a ma...
Chromebooks — laptops that run Chrome OS from Google — have significantly outperformed Apple’s MacBooks in the PC landscape in 2013. Thanks to data gathered by NPD group, a firm that specializes in market researc...
Only a couple days into the new year and already there have been more hacks. This time it was Skype who was the target and the hackers left a message which was pretty clear: Spying on the public has to stop. Already there has been...
A little more than a week after information on a weakness within Snapchat’s security was highlighted, the service has been hacked and details on usernames and their phones numbers, numbering at 4.6 million, have been publish...
A new study that is set to be published in Addiction, an online journal, reports that an estimated 18% of drug users in the United States get the drugs (got the drugs) from the Silk Road. The study took place at the end of 2012 an...
Thanks to a presentation done on the surveillance abilities that the NSA possesses, by Jacob Applebaum, at the Chaos Communications Congress, we know that it is possible for the NSA to infiltrate your Wi-Fi from up to 8 miles away...
Hewlett-Packard hasn’t had the best 2013 and on top of the massive 29,000 layoffs they had already announced, they are adding 5,000 more, making it a total of 34,000. The company elaborates in an SEC document. “Due to ...
Just before shops selling cannabis open in Denver, the Denver Post has launched a new site dedicated to the marijuana subject with The Cannabist. It is a bold move and interesting to see a “legitimate” news source supp...
The Dogecoin community is coming together and looking to raise 30 million coins, which is roughly $13, 545 USD, to help pay back the ones that were stolen a few days ago in a hack. This action is being done through SaveDogemas.com...
Over the last year Google has gotten above 235 million requests to take down content for copyright infringement, which is roughly four times the amount they received the previous year. Despite the amount of requests, it seems that...
Cisco is “deeply concerned” about the idea of there being backdoors that the NSA use in their devices. The company that designs, manufactures and sells networking equipment was definitely put off by the information rev...
On Christmas day, a hacker managed to gain access and control over a server at the BBC and then reportedly tried to sell access to other hackers. It isn’t known if the hacker, who goes by the handle of “HASH”, ma...
Walter Isaacson, the man who wrote the biography on Steve Jobs, is currently working on his new book and has decided to release two chapters and see what comments he can get from the internet. The new book, which is called The Bir...
