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The category is Battle of Wits. The clue is: It knows nothing for certain, yet may be the greatest challenger in the history of the game show Jeopardy! The question is elementary. What is Watson? For three straight days starting Febr...
Matching post #78,042 · by err0r · Feb 6, 2011 6:02 AM
Even if Microsoft did copy Google's search results the practice couldn't be scaled enough to mimic Google's algorithms in any widespread and meaningful way, search industry analysts and executives said. It would also be impossible for...
Matching post #78,040 · by err0r · Feb 5, 2011 8:06 AM
To make a point that putting trust in Facebook comes at a price, a media artist and media critic created a "dating" website where they placed 250,000 Facebook profiles without asking for any permission. The pair, Paolo Cirio and Alessa...
Matching post #78,039 · by err0r · Feb 5, 2011 8:05 AM
Adobe's Reader X, last year's upgrade that features a "sandbox" designed to protect users from PDF exploits, stymied a recent attack campaign, researchers said Thursday. But they're not sure why. "I don't want to take anything away f...
Matching post #78,038 · by err0r · Feb 5, 2011 8:02 AM
Following a near year-long stalemate, Viacom (News - Alert) and online video service Hulu are playing nice again. The media conglomerate announced late Wednesday that the two parties have agreed to a deal that will allow Hulu (News - A...
Matching post #78,031 · by err0r · Feb 3, 2011 4:32 PM
During the past 24 hours the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have seized several domains belonging to major sports streaming sites. While the authorities have not yet official...
Matching post #78,034 · by err0r · Feb 3, 2011 4:43 PM
This time, Mozilla may be serious about talking about a final beta for Firefox 4. The company decided that one more beta, Beta 11, would benefit Firefox 4 before the release candidate can be sent out of the gate. You may argue about th...
Matching post #78,033 · by err0r · Feb 3, 2011 4:37 PM
The Egyptian government restored Internet service to the country Wednesday, ending a weeklong shutdown aimed at making it harder for protesters to organize. The shutdown proved less an impediment than a source of fresh anger among ordi...
Matching post #78,032 · by err0r · Feb 3, 2011 4:35 PM
In a sign of the times, Google is challenging hackers to try and exploit its Chrome browser. The search giant will fork out $20,000 and a CR-48 Chrome OS notebook to the first hacker who can prove it exploited Chrome at the fifth annual...
Matching post #78,030 · by err0r · Feb 3, 2011 4:30 PM
Online dating site Plentyoffish.com suffered a cyber-attack last week that compromised the users’ passwords, usernames and email addresses, according to a blog post by Plentyoffish CEO Markus Frind. “This is a personal post about what...
Matching post #78,024 · by err0r · Jan 31, 2011 6:26 PM
Through its broad attempt to shut down Internet communications, Egypt's government has not only successfully blocked Twitter but also significantly limited access to Facebook, Yahoo and Google, as it scrambles to squelch political unrest...
Matching post #77,995 · by err0r · Jan 28, 2011 10:30 PM
TG007 is closing every year on April 1st
Matching post #78,013 · by err0r · Jan 30, 2011 4:30 AM
Yes, our worldwide system of networks that comprise what we call the Internet is running out of IP addresses. Experts and pundits are predicting exactly when this will happen, and sensationalist news headlines are popping up all over the...
Matching post #78,001 · by err0r · Jan 29, 2011 9:18 AM
Microsoft today warned Windows users of a new unpatched vulnerability that attackers could exploit to steal information and dupe people into installing malware. In a security advisory issued Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that a bug in...
Matching post #77,997 · by err0r · Jan 28, 2011 10:39 PM
The FBI yesterday executed 40 search warrants around the US to gather evidence on the Anonymous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in defense of WikiLeaks last year—attacks which targeted Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Amazon. A...
Matching post #77,996 · by err0r · Jan 28, 2011 10:34 PM
A splinter group of OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with Oracle's acquisition of the open-source productivity suite as part of its acquisition of Sun, have created their own version of the software. Calling themselves the Document Fou...
Matching post #77,985 · by err0r · Jan 26, 2011 5:41 AM
Microsoft is expected to report lower profits than last year as PC market growth stalls, making it almost certain that Apple's latest $6 billion earnings record will exceed Microsoft's for the first time since 1990. Microsoft is expect...
Matching post #77,984 · by err0r · Jan 26, 2011 5:38 AM
A month and a half after Microsoft made a splash announcing the Tracking Protection feature for its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser, Mozilla's Global Privacy and Public Policy Leader, Alex Fowler, published a post on his personal bl...
Matching post #77,983 · by err0r · Jan 24, 2011 4:38 PM
Kind of like a pest that won't go away, another virus is running rampant across Twitter, powered by the goo.gl URL shortener. We recently saw the goo.gl virus pop up on Twitter a few months ago, and much like last time, the new incarna...
Matching post #77,980 · by err0r · Jan 21, 2011 8:10 PM
A hacker sued by Sony for circumventing the PlayStation 3's protections against pirated software is claiming he had the right to alter the video-game console he had purchased legally. George Hotz, best known for hacking the Apple iPhon...
Matching post #77,967 · by err0r · Jan 15, 2011 7:47 PM
In what is potentially another privacy misstep, Facebook has made a change to a permissions dialog box users see when downloading third-party Facebook apps--a change that potentially makes users' addresses and phone numbers available to...
Matching post #77,972 · by err0r · Jan 18, 2011 2:02 AM
Most users are already aware of the risks presented by cookies, the small data files that browsers save on our computers to remember things like login details, or Website preferences. Although arguably harmless, cookies can be used to tr...
Matching post #77,962 · by err0r · Jan 14, 2011 5:38 AM
A California man pleaded guilty Thursday to hacking into hundreds of women's e-mail accounts in search of naked pictures, then sending the photos to the victims' friends and, in some cases, even posting some of the pictures on their Face...
Matching post #77,961 · by err0r · Jan 14, 2011 5:31 AM
A Microsoft evangelist has mocked Google's decision to remove H.264 video support from Chrome, implying that Google is trying to impose an edict on an industry that's already made up its mind to the contrary. In a blog post, Tim Sneath...
Matching post #77,960 · by err0r · Jan 13, 2011 9:36 PM
MySpace's workforce is being slashed by half, the struggling website's owner News Corp confirmed yesterday. Around 500 staff will lose their jobs, said the company's boss Mike Jones. "These changes were purely driven by issues relate...
Matching post #77,957 · by err0r · Jan 12, 2011 2:58 PM
