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  • Oct 10, 2011

    Drone hack

    Creech Air Force Base in Nevada is home to several pilots who command drone plane missions in Afghanistan and other warzones. Officials at the base…

  • If you're Jacob Appelbaum, a Wikileaks volunteer. The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the government's interpretation of the law that allows…

  • Well, that didn't last long. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that this whole idea of a separate site with a separate, kind of weird name, just…

  • Well, only for a month. And they're French Internet pirates. It seems they've been violating France's Internet copyright laws but instead of going…

  • The New York Times is running a crossword tribute to Jobs today. Quora engineer and puzzle maker, Kevin Der, spent a frantic hour writing clues in…

  • The Steve Jobs biography release date is being pushed up to October 24. Biographer Walter Isaacson visited Jobs two weeks before he died for the…

  • Apple started taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4S (the Fours… iFours…Quatro- S… SQuatro?) at midnight. Its site promptly crashed and was down…

  • Banks and lenders are in on the act. Well, not quite yet, but as soon as enough data can be collected, it will most certainly be crunched and…

  • Verizon's lawsuit against the FCC regarding net neutrality will be heard in the DC circuit court, this as a result of a lottery drawing. Verizon…

  • President Obama is expected to announce a major executive order having to do with online security today. It's the culmination of a seven month…