I just came across an article on Lifehacker which mentions ways that you can salvage your old laptop. Often times people purchase a new laptop or desktop machine, and the old laptop gets boxed up or given away. Suggestions from the article include: create a no-monitor low-power spare system, convert it to a home [...]

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I’m a huge fan of Google. I forward all email into gmail, I use picasa for all my photo albums, I search with google, I’ve been investigating their Android mobile phone platform, I frequent their code repository, and the list goes on.
I find this latest Google endeavor a bit troubling. Google began piloting their [...]

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Yet another horrific hack (depending on your view) has been demonstrated at the Black Hat conference in DC. Apparently two guys named David Hulton and Steve Muller are able to crack cell phone encryption used on (GSM) cellular signals (AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile use).
For around $900 in equipment and a little bit of time [...]

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The darkest corners of the Internet are booming with help wanted ads looking for hackers who are fluent in foreign languages, such as Mandarin, Russian, and Chinese. If written poorly, scams like email phishing and grammatically incorrect web pages make it difficult to trick people in other countries into revealing their financial information. [...]

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Yet another company is caving into Hollywood.  Adobe has decided to place DRM on top of their latest version of Flash for video. This is a bold move considering Microsoft is trying to push Silverlight.  Tick off enough developers and they just might jump ship into a Silverlight dinghy. It’s not that Silverlight [...]

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It’s not surprising that some frightening new security exploits came out of the Black Hat conference in Washington DC this week. One exploit in particular caught my eye because it relates to something I carry around in my wallet, my American Express credit card.
A guy named Adam Laurie who is considered an expert [...]

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[Cue up the soap opera music]… Welcome to another episode of what’s happening this week at Yahoo! First some old news… Microsoft has given up trying to persuade the Yahoo board of directors, and instead is taking things directly to the controlling shareholders.
The other part to this saga is News Corp. and Yahoo [...]

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New research shows that it’s possible to retrieve an encryption key from DRAM (the main memory chips used to store data while the system is running) during a power cycle.
Apparently the data on a DRAM chip fades slower at power loss than experts believed, allowing it to be retrieved with a quick reboot into a [...]

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HardGeek details an interesting concept device that’s able to leverage multiple technologies to provide an all-in-one information center. According to the photos, the device would be a little bigger than the size of a person’s hand and is shaped like an index card. The device would rely heavily on a built-in camera to [...]

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CNET News has an article about a new form of interface control. A company based in San Francisco named Emotiv has a product called the “Emotiv Headset” which is supposed to allow users to control objects on screen by using their mind. According to the article the headset has been in development for [...]

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