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Danya Glabau
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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 are inching toward enforcing copyright within their networks, on behalf…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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 now in Japan, not China or the US. Are you…
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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. This week’s Titanic Takeover Tuesday took down a bunch of gaming…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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 security breaches are escalating to an all-out hacker war between…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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 “internet hoax day”: the voice of the Syrian rebellion is fake,…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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. Then, just as a judge says that banks aren’t really…
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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 iOS 5, greater Twitter integration for the iPhone, and a…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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” around the interwebs. Where did Nokia go wrong, and is…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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 are still taking over the world on occupation at a…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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. Google Wallet, a much gossiped-about, touchless, money-less, perhaps even magical phone…
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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 we are least aware of it, others who choose their…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
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, which supplies Apple with parts and had a spate of worker…