Full FeedMPAA approves “Military Strength” anti-piracy encryption technology
In an attempt to be more proactive rather than simply reactive, the MPAA has recently approved the DreamStream system and its 2048-bit “military strength” anti-piracy encryption technology to protect content streamed to viewers online. First introduced to the MPAA in March of 2008 by Laura Tunberg, MGM’s former vice president… Continue Reading »
Eighteen year old student fails class, hacks school computer, now faces 38 years behind bars
Omar Khan, an 18-year-old student from Coto de Caza, California attempted to pull a move straight from the movie War Games. And I am not referring to the whole “lets play Global Thermonuclear War” incident, but instead the hacking into his schools computer to change his failing grades to passing… Continue Reading »
Latest Eee PC hack adds backlit keyboard for just $15
The latest mod to come the ever-hackable Eee PC seems like one that should have been done a long time ago. For just about $15 you can somewhat easily add a backlight to your keyboard. The mod is estimated to take about 3 hours and requires you taking your keyboard… Continue Reading »
Hacked OQO e2 UMPC becomes world’s smallest Mac
Score one for the UMPC hacker community again, for just recently, a hacker named TFR revealed in OQO Talk that he successfully installed and ran Mac OS X Leopard on his little OQO e2 UMPC. Taking into account that his device came with Windows Vista pre-installed, it’s not that hard… Continue Reading »
Indonesia bans porn, gets Information Ministry website hacked in return
There has been some great debates among the Muslim-majority Asian nation about whether or not to ban the access of pornographic materials. The government of Indonesia took the first step to restrict the access of pornographic materials from the web and went as far as making the “transmission of pornographic… Continue Reading »
Anti-Theft Technology announced by Intel for laptops
Intel has announced plans to release an anti-theft initiative for laptops by the end of the year. The rate of data hacked from stolen or misplaced laptops has been increasing, and Intel has planned to release this technology to help prevent your vital data from being widely misused. “It basically… Continue Reading »
Vista falls - Linux “pwns” this year’s CanSecWest
After three days of Hack-a-thon, one victor remains standing after CanSecWest’s PWN 2 OWN competition, a Sony Vaio running Ubuntu Linux. On Thursday, the MacBook Air fell under the hands of Charlie Miller, who pocketed $10,000 and left two other machines still standing: a Fujitsu U810 running Windows Vista SP1… Continue Reading »
Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest
How long does it take you to earn $10,000? For Charlie Miller, of Independent Security Evaluators and former NSA employee, it takes him about two minutes. Last Thursday, Miller won the PWN 2 OWN competition at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, by successfully hacking a MacBook Air. In… Continue Reading »
Ben Heck - the console modding legend going ‘pro’
Benjamin Heckendorn, or mostly known as Ben Heck, is a legend for his semi-godlike ability to recreate and modify electronic devices. Among those popular devices are the Xbox laptop and the popular reincarnation of Atari 2600. Ben started all with all of these “crazy” ideas from his basement, warming up… Continue Reading »
N-Gage launched, for a limited few
Nokia has, after a long delay launched their N-Gage service. The release, being called N-Gage First Access sounds to us a lot like a glorified beta testing group, but if you are one of the lucky few, you can still get excited. The service is currently available just to those… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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Palm Pre Information & Updates
Palm just introduced their next-gen smartphone, the Palm Pre, and next-gen operating system, Palm webOS. Gadgetell's got the latest Pre and webOS information and news for you right here.
