Possibly the most ironic defacement ever. Zone-H.org, “the largest website defacement archive and IT security resource on the planet” has been hacked and defaced by Saudi Arabian hackers “Devil Hacker & Unix Web”.
The tech industry is huge and ungainly, but it’s not impossible to get a grasp of its daily news. There are ways to deeply understand tech through hours of reading per day, but for the busy pro with only 20 minutes for tech news, use the following daily process.
FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. It’s powerful enough to be used in the enterprise, but it’s friendly enough so that even a typical home office user can take advantage of it.
Wii upgrades? An HD-capable Wii? Multi-colored Wiis? Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime talks with Vicious Sid and Bro Buzz about the future of the Wii and how Nintendo compares itself to the Apples and Microsofts of the world. A must read!
An interview with SCEA chief Jack Tretton in the latest Game Informer revealed some troubling news for consumers waiting for a cheaper PS3. When asked point blank whether price drops for the PS3 will be “as soon or as drastic as they were for the PlayStation 2,” Tretton responded with a curt, “No.” The PS2 price dropped $100 after 565 days.
Muslix64, fresh from hammering down the walls of HD-DVD, applies the same technique to partially crack Blu-Ray disks. How long until the inner keep of high-def DRM comes tumbling down?
Japan’s T-ZONE.PC DIY SHOP (their caps and wacky punctuation, not mine) has outfitted a PS3 with external HDD for funnsies. The shop is rather famous for modding game consoles and putting them on display.
“If I say too much, Mr. Kutaragi might get really upset. I think that the PS3 is difficult to work with, but so was the PS2… Frankly speaking, I want to create something on the PC. It’s a multi-platform [format]. I’ve been regularly studying work on the PC anyways, and I want to provide something as a world-wide platform…”
Although IMS is not a known medical disorder, it is not uncommon for people to become so immersed in their online activities that their cognitive abilities wane. After hours starring at a screen, flipping between web pages and information outlets, people can develop a feeling of anxiety stress and a decrease in mental performance.
It really wouldn’t be an Apple device if it didn’t involve the practical kidnapping of a pair of inventors and secretive technology buyouts, and the iPhone seems to be no exception. Fingerworks were struggling to keep their dream of gesture-operated gadgetry alive when the company suddenly closed up shop a year and a half ago.
OK that’s pretty funny….
The domain Google.de was hijacked earlier today. The domain
