“The eBay auction expires on May 23rd and 100% of the sale price will go to OLPC. This couldn’t have been done without the help of the fantastic hosts of ROFLCon, a collection of great Internet meme-creators who were happy to smear some Sharpie for this project, and of course, breadpig’s friends at OLPC. [...]

Kenshoto has officially released their call-for-ninjas regading Defcon 16’s Capture The Flag (CTF) competition.

When questioned about this shocking revelation, Dr. Shoto responded palm-to-forehead, “What you say?!” He further elaborated, “The recent challenges with cyber-infrastructure and the threat of cyber-attack from cyber-terrorists plotting devious cyber-crimes has been troublesome. So let’s all get together and cyber-bitchslap each [...]

Demonoid ReturnsDemonoid, the wildly popular torrent tracker is back in the p2p tracking game after a long hiatus. The previous admin @ Demonoid could no longer manage the site going forward and has handed his responsibilities to a close friend.
“Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care [...]

A program to create a nationwide alert system using cell phones and other mobile devices was approved Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The system would send text messages to Americans when an emergency occurs.
The FCC said cell phone companies that voluntarily opt into the system would send text-based alert messages to subscribers in response to [...]

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A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer [...]

Ryan Block seems to have stumbled over some new enhancements to the iPhone’s email client which includes a two-pane view mode as well as the removal of the x of y message indicator, pictured below…

In what may turn out to be an important development for interoperability between Internet services, online giant Yahoo! has announced it plans to support OpenID 2.0, a standard designed to enable single-login access to Internet services—even if they’re operated by different companies. Yahoo! plans to introduce beta support for OpenID 2.0 beginning on January 30 [...]

CNN reports that while western music companies pushed for punishment of AllofMP3.com owner Denis Kvasov, head of MediaServices, they instead witnessed Russian law executed as it was written.
Of course they claim they are going to appeal, but the Russian copyright law is still quite different from American copyright law.
Silly companies. Music is for the people.

Opera has always been an innovator and their newest version is now exception. Take a look at the major new features that has been introduced in this version:

Torrent Support: Opera has tried to simplify the downloading of torrents through it’s torrent dowloader. It makes downloading torrents as simple as downloading a .exe [...]