| Operation Payback Targets Amazon; Wikileaks Cables Found in Kindle Book Store Less than an hour ago, the Twitter account @Op_Payback (Operation Payback) tweeted its intention to take down Amazon.com with its LOIC application, the software designed to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, as directed by the group of hackers known only as "Anonymous." The group's "Operation Payback" campaign has already hit... Continue Reading »    Snapstick Could End The Battle Over Your TV Screen In this reemergence of the Internet-enabled TV (remember Web TV of the 90's?), there is a land battle over screen real estate. Web browsers are free to watch recent episodes of nearly any TV show on their computer, simply by going to a network's website. Can they go to these same websites using Internet TV devices like Google or Apple TV, though?... Continue Reading » Mozilla in 2011: Focus on Performance, Video, Identity & App Stores Yesterday, we also had a chance to interview Mozilla's chairperson Mitchell Baker at LeWeb in Paris. During this discussion, we talked about Mozilla's plans for the coming year, which involve a renewed focus on speed, app stores for the Web and open audio and video in the browser. We also touched upon Mozilla's vision for giving users the ability... Continue Reading » Pulling Together a Pre-Launch Checklist for Your Startup As you prepare to launch your product, there are a number of things you can do in order to make sure things go as smoothly as possible. We've written before about the steps you can take, for example, to make sure that your website is ready even if your startup isn't. The blog Bootstrapping Independence recently posted a very thorough list of... Continue Reading » Wikileaks on Pirate Bay: The Facts & Figures The US government has called on the organization Wikileaks to "return" all the classified documents it received and has begun to publish and "destroy" all the documents in its databases. For at least the fraction of the documents that have been released to the public, it's far too late for that. How far and wide have the Wikileaks Cablegate... Continue Reading » 4 (More) Tools for Teaching Kids to Code This week is National Computer Education Week, aimed at recognizing the crucial role of computing in today's world and at supporting efforts to boost computer science education at all levels. The event purposefully coincides with Grace Hopper's birthday tomorrow. But it also happens to come the same week that the Program for International Student... Continue Reading » [UPDATED] Anonymous Ousted from Twitter and Facebook, Back on Twitter Already Following its very public DDoS attacks on the Visa and Mastercard websites this afternoon, it appears as though the vigilante group Anonymous will no longer be able to keep us apprised via Twitter or Facebook. The group's access to both social networking sites has been pulled. Updated: 30 minutes later, it looks like you can follow Anonymous... Continue Reading » Under a Medieval Castle and a Neolithic Village, Archaeology Goes 3D There's been no end to the stories about 3D in the field of entertainment. It's the death of film! It's the salvation of a moribund art form! It's a flash in the pan! I'm all like whatever. Where 3D is really exciting is where it brings our inaccessible, buried past to life and light. In archaeology. Lidar has been used to unveil the... Continue Reading » DDoS Attacks Take Down Mastercard and Visa Websites, "Payback" for Their Stance on WikiLeaks Mastercard's website was down for several hours this morning, and now it appears as though Visa's is offline as well, as these sites have become the targets of ongoing DDoS attacks. And so the infowar rages on today with these latest shots apparently fired by Anonymous, a vigilante group of hacktivists loosely affiliated with the message board... Continue Reading » SimpleGeo Launches, Aims to Make All Apps Geo-Aware Are you ready to learn a whole lot more about the world around you every time you launch a location-aware application? Countless apps are likely to get a lot of real-world data dumped into their databases thanks to two new data sources available for free as of today. SimpleGeo, the closely-watched location data service now lead by a roster of... Continue Reading » Global Domination: CNN iReport Has Now Published From Every Country on Earth It's no Pambazuka News, but CNN's four-year-old citizen journalism site iReport, does have a fairly high profile. Attached as it is to the pioneer in 24 hour cable news channels with a global reach, it shouldn't surprise that it also has a global reach. As of two days ago, iReports had been filed from every single country in the world except one:... Continue Reading » Why Teens Don't And Won't Tweet I'm 16 and, unusually, I use Twitter quite a bit. I say unusually because perhaps you've heard that teens don't tweet. This first came to light last year when a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern wrote a report [PDF] where he explained that teens "realize they are not going to update it," and that "no one is viewing their profile, so their 'tweets'... Continue Reading » | 
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