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Following LulzSec’s declaration of war on the world, the world has declared war on LulzSec. Hulu is up for sale, but what exactly are they selling? It looks like ISPs…
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Danya Glabau
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Danya Glabau is a graduate student at Cornell University. She is interested in science communication in mass media, and what it reveals about cultural values.
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Online currency Bitcoin, which was recently targeted by US senators for its use in the drug trade, is the latest high-profile hacking target. The fastest computer in the world is…
The Rumpus Hacker Roundup
So who are all these hackers anyway? Here’s a quick video introduction. LulzSec has been grabbing headlines for the past week. They hit Citi customer accounts, the FBI, and the CIA.…
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Big hack of the day: the CIA, by LulzSec. And they released 62,000 password and login combinations with a challenge to hackers to find out where they work. Now, the…
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Here’s some nice internet doomsdayism for your Monday: people only see things they like online. Oh, and traditional journalism is still dying because of the internet. Let’s just call today…
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There’s a lot going on in the security world right now. First, Lockheed Martin was compromised. There was the series of Sony hacks, and the newest round of Gmail hacks.…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Apple held its big yearly news event, known as WWDC, today. Highlights include a new version of OSX, called Lion, that will only be available online, new mobile operating system…
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In Google news, the company is blaming China (again) for the latest round of Gmail hacks, and today they launch a new “+1” button to compete with Facebook’s ubiquitous “Like”…
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Tupac lives! At least, according to a group that hacked PBS over the weekend. Another group of hackers successfully broke through Lockheed Martin’s self-defense systems, after months of preparation. Robots…
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Wall Street is not too happy with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, even after Microsoft’s recent, somewhat controversial purchase of Skype. Skype has, incidentally, been having some major problems this week.…
Danya Glabau: The Last Book I Loved, In the Metro
To speak of “the other” is often to say very little nowadays. There are big-O others, little-o others, psychoanalytic others, (post)colonial others, others who punish and spy on us when…
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Somehow I missed this back in March: gesture-based touchscreen phone keyboard Swype is available for download again! Laptop batteries that will last three years? Sign me up! Chinese factory Foxconn,…