The hacker group has a timetable for this week’s attack, with Wells Fargo, the US Bank and the PNC websites scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively.

Ubuntu now wants to integrate affiliate plans from Amazon. Amazon offers an unmatched affiliate program and this will bolster Canonical’s revenue stream from Ubuntu.

While some might argue that this defeats the purpose of buying a Pi in the first place, as it requires a PC to program on, others see this as an important step in overcoming a learning curve. We cannot ignore the fact that this will not work towards making the Raspberry Pi more accessible to the poor.

This is the first time that promotion is being made available for personal user accounts on Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare. With its massive user base, Facebook will surely see good conversions from this monetization scheme.

Nokia is clearly emerging as a major enterprise-mapping provider with most of Yahoo maps, Bing maps and now Amazon Maps being powered by its map data.

It has been over 60 years since the term AI was first coined. Since then, the elusive human brain has fascinated us with its learning capabilities. The massively parallel network of synapses and neurons is practically impossible to replicate and that is why, there is no public record of a human brain being fully replicated [...]

Alibaba is probably forking an open source project without giving back, and Google is threatening Acer (Alibaba’s partner) to save the Android ecosystem, especially the Open Handset Alliance, which can take a blow from this move by Alibaba. It is hard to decide who is less wrong here.

An interesting analysis by Sam Granger points out how easy it is to leverage this information, and actually get access to a user account. Who would have thought that WhatsApp uses exactly the same mechanism as written on the Wikipedia page, no salting of the hash, no MD5 variant.

Al-Rashedon, a Syrian hacker group has hacked a slew of Al-Jaeera websites for their reporting of the unrest in Syria. The hack affected Al-Jazeera’s English and Arabic websites, and left them defaced with this image on Tuesday. The group posted a message to Al-Jazeera as seen in the image, saying, In response to your stand against Syria (Government [...]

The hack is so popular; it has become the most visited Pastebin paste ever, within 24 hours. However, it also raises questions. What is the FBI doing with 12 million Apple UDIDs?

In the recent Philippines earthquake, the TED system detected tweets and the location of the earthquake in just one minutes and seven seconds. Systems like TED are good for augmenting traditional earthquake detection systems based on sensors.

While on one hand, Canonical is touting Unity, this community effort brings back Gnome, an environment that most Ubuntu users are familiar with.

Wolfram Alpha has a new feature that lets you analyze your personal life, using data from Facebook. It generates over 60 reports, and includes personal data and data from social circles as well.

It was seen that voice networks clogged up under high volume of calls during the Tsunami last year. However, Twitter and other social networks survived their surge in usage.

This is the second time Kim Dotcom has been intimidated by police authorities, and this time, his Megaupload venture has been shut down as well. Kim Dotcom is very upset, and he has embarked upon a journey to take revenge.