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From SF Weekly: Terry Childs, the “rogue techie” who refused to disclose the passwords to a crucial city networking system for the better part of two weeks, has been sentenced to four years in state prison. He also may be stuck with up to $1.485 million in restitution payments. Since Childs has been jailed since [...]

From Ars Technica: Now that we’re past the halfway point of 2010, it’s starting to become apparent that the browser trends we’ve noted over the past several months are no longer holding. Sure, Safari and Opera are still slowly gaining share, but the three big guys are restless. Firefox has started declining, Chrome’s growth spurt [...]

From Wired’s This Day in Tech: 1999: The Recording Industry Association of America sues Napster, the online, peer-to-peer file sharing service that’s allowing millions of computer users to score free, copyright music. The rules are about to change. Napster founder Shawn Fanning won rock-star celebrity with the service. But music-industry heads were spinning. So, the [...]

From Taranfx: Who was that someone shouting loud that only Jailbreaking makes iPhone insecure?  We now have a new App that makes even an UnModified/Virgin iPhone leak personal data like you have never seen before. A Swiss iPhone developer has unveiled a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from [...]

From Wired’s Gadget Lab: You could get skilled with the piano after years of practice, but imagine how good you’d be at playing an instrument you invented. A college course and the iPhone are making that possible for computer-science students at the University of Michigan. Now, at the end of the course, the class ensemble [...]

I’ve seen this around a few places and finally decided to post it.  After having my WoW account hacked twice, I hope they hang this guy by his fingernails.   From Dark Reading: For the first time, a hacker has been arrested in the U.K. for stealing players’ identities, skills, weapons, and virtual money in an [...]

From Motherboard: We already know that we don’t need air force pilots to drop bombs on terrorist dinners anymore, just gamers manning drones. And eventually, gamers flying virtual drones. And eventually robots flying virtual drones in the form of manga characters. To get there and other places, the Air Force is buying 2,200 PlayStation3s. They’ll [...]

Found this priceless gem at Gizmodo: In this exclusive, never-before-seen training footage from The Geek Squad, the horrible truth of their agenda is finally revealed. Snitch & Langford – Geek Squad from brianhogg on Vimeo.

From ISC Sans: Those of us who spent our formative years in the 80′s would know, but for those a bit younger, if you have a jailbroken iPhone and are wondering who just appeared as your wallpaper, it’s Rick Astley, a singer who was (at least somewhat) popular in the 80′s.  His video was the [...]