Car shoppers are about to see the first real effort by automakers to sell the latest technologies with their vehicles. Until now, car companies offered in-dash GPS systems (often with less functionality than stand-alone counterparts that cost one-tenth of the price), rear-view cameras that switch on when you put the vehicle in reverse. Both Ford […]
Thanks to the Occupy protests, we’re reminded more than ever of the epidemic of corporate greed, of companies more focused on their current stock prices than on offering quality goods or services, of the trend to outsource jobs while making excuses of being unable to find qualified workers in the U.S.A. Clearly, these stereotypes don’t […]
As David Emery documented last week on Cryptome, Apple’s original version of FileVault has a serious security flaw, when used in OS X Lion 10.7.3. The authorization process has a debug option left on that logs the password used to access an encrypted volume’s directory tree. In turn, this log file is viewable by anyone […]
Berkeley college freshman Derek Low, known for his tinkering with various projects, may have created his biggest attention-getter yet with Berkeley’s Ridiculously Automated Dorm (or BRAD). Low’s dorm room makeover required several months of work and between $200 to $300 invested in off the shelf parts. The system integrates with the student’s iPhone using an […]
Filipino hacker Gwapo reports a booming business selling his services flooding specific websites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Gwapo’s business launched in January on Hack Forums, and so far, the 24 year old claims he services “several huge companies daily” who pay him to attack competitors. The capitalistic hacker even offers a five-minute […]
The FBI warns that nearly a half million internet users will lose their access on July 9 if they don’t take steps to remove a virus on their computers first. Capable of infecting both Macs and Windows PCs, the virus in question is a trojan horse called DNS Changer. A variant, often referred to as […]
Google’s Project Glass may be getting the lion’s share of media publicity right now, but other companies want to get in your face with wearable technologies too. Oakley’s CEO, Colin Baden, recently told Bloomberg that the company hopes to release sunglasses with the ability to project additional information into the wearer’s field of view. The […]
College tuition may be rising in cost at a rate faster than even medical expenses, but several entrepreneurs want to offer you free courses via the internet. Udacity accepts new student enrollments for any of six computer software-related courses beginning on April 16. The site began last November, when Stanford computer science professor Sebastian Thrun […]
The popular open source DVR, MythTV, announces a new release today with version 0.25. Features added with this release include HTTP live streaming capabilities, IPv6 support for both the back end and front end clients, Apple AirTunes and AirPlay support for streaming both audio and video content from iOS devices, VAAPI support (a video acceleration […]
According to a statement by AT&T, the company’s customers that use Apple iPhones can now request a phone be unlocked (allowing use with other carriers), under a new policy that went into effect on April 8. AT&T requires that a customer complete a two-year contract, upgrade under one of their upgrade policies, or pay the […]
