The hacks seem to have been carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army, which claimed responsibility on the @60minutes Twitter account after hacking it for a second time.

The British Library has decided to archive the entire UK web. This effort includes websites, blogs, forums and social media sites.

Parallel Iron claims that the HDFS file system was created by four innovators, who got patents for this technology, and then assigned the patents to Ring Technology Enterprises, now Parallel Iron.

Rust and Servo are sister projects now, and will be released on Android and ARM. The primary focus here seems to be mobile devices.

The Yahoo! Mail-Dropbox integration will let Yahoo! Mail users add attachments to their mails directly from Dropbox and save mail attachments to Dropbox. The feature will be available globally for all Yahoo! mail users.

The $25 Model A sacrifices the ethernet port and has only one USB port. Thus, the model A needs much lesser power than the Model B.

GNOME 3.8 brings many new awesome features and improvements to the table. There have been a number of design changes in the file manager, contacts application and the documents application.

Canonical plays a major role in Ubuntu, and it has based a business around the product, so it has a vested interest in the project too.

Java 7 brought a new awesome feature called Security Control to the table. With update 11 of Java 7, the security level was set to high, requiring users to approve if they wanted to run an applet irrespective of whether it was signed or not.

The earliest version of Stuxnet has been discovered, and christened Stuxnet 0.5. Stuxnet 0.5 reveals the evolution of this dreaded worm over the years.

At a price tag of $125,000, the MReal is not affordable, neither is it a consumer device. It has been showcased as a virtual reality environment creator.

The first appearance of Ubuntu for tablet is due this Thursday, and it is arriving on the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets as a Developer Preview.

Sitebuilder comes with Java 6 update 7, which came out back in the summer of 2008. That version of java is severely flawed and outdated.

The title “Away From Keyboard” is symbolic of the harsh realities of life away from the keyboard where the Pirate Bay trio would face a court trial and face the harsh reality of life.

As part of this project, the team of scientists will build General Ecosystem Models (GEMs), which will simulate environmental processes like reproduction, migration, death, and feeding. This will provide valuable statistical data to plan and design conservation efforts for the ecosystem.