An Illinois sheriff filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the owners of craigslist, accusing the popular national classified-ad Web site of knowingly promoting prostitution.
Iddo Genuth writes “At precisely 10:49 p.m. EST, NASA’s ‘Kepler’ telescope was successfully kicked off into space, embarking on a mission that the agency says ‘may fundamentally change humanity’s view of itself.’ The telescope will search the nearby region of our galaxy for the first time looking for Earth-size planets, which orbit stars at distances where temperatures permit liquid water to endure on their surface — a region often referred to as the ‘habitable’ zone.”
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krebsatwpost writes “The Washington Post ran a piece earlier this week that confronts the myth that cyber criminal gangs in Russia and Eastern Europe avoid attacking their own, pointing to numerous examples of late that counter this common misconception. The story draws on data from Team Cyrmu about distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that target Russian and E. European organizations, intel from McAfee about Russian banks and federal agencies that appear to be under control over cyber gangs there, and tens of gigabytes of data stolen via keyloggers that disproportionately impact Russian systems, including that of a top Gazprom official. The piece begins: ‘If you ask security experts why more cyber criminals aren’t brought to justice, the answer you will probably hear is that US authorities simply aren’t getting the cooperation they need from law enforcement officials in Russia and other Eastern European nations, where some of the world’s most active cyber criminal gangs are thought to operate with impunity. But I wonder whether authorities in those countries would be any more willing to pursue cyber crooks in their own countries if they were forced to confront just how deeply those groups have penetrated key government and private computer networks in those regions?'”
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If you can fit a whole computer, keyboard and screen into a tiny, fold-up 7″ box, why not squeeze one into a keyboard? And while you’re there, what about adding a little touchscreen in the space normally inhabited by the number pad?
Palm investor Roger McNamee recently stated that when the phone contracts of the initial iPhone owners expire this summer, they’ll all be jumping ship for the Palm Pre – which should be shipping by then. That’s not too likely to happen and here’s why.
The head of the U.S. Air Force Space Command said future combat environments are shifting toward asymmetric online battlefields.
It (might have) worked in New Zealand, so Ireland is giving it a go. Starting today, avatars on Facebook and Twitter will go black to oppose “graduated response” rules sought by the major record labels.
For your inspiration, here are 40 beautifully-designed websites that revert back in time to retro and vintage styles.
And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica
Twitter integrated Twitter trends and Twitter search yesterday taking them steps closer to having a profitable business model. Still no advertising, but they are getting everything in place
