Verleumdungen im Netz, gefälschte Profile auf Facebook, bitterböse Beleidigungen im Chat: Die Fälle von Cybermobbing unter Schülern nehmen neue Dimensionen an. Oft muss die Schule eingreifen.
Es ist ein absolutes Kuriosum: Die Softwarefirma Symantec rät von der Nutzung des eigenen Produkts pcAnywhere ab. Offenbar hat Anonymous die Hände im Spiel.
Der Wii-Nachfolger soll pünktlich zum lukrativen Weihnachtsgeschäft in den USA, Europa und Japan in den Läden stehen. Gespielt wird künftig mit einem Tablet-Controller.
Erhält Samsung als erster IT-Konzern den ungeliebten Public Eye Award? Bis um Mitternacht läuft die Online-Abstimmung, mit der das angeblich schlimmste Unternehmen der Welt gewählt wird.
Die Gerüchteküche um die neue Konsole von Microsoft brodelt seit Monaten. Jetzt plaudern Insider über den konkreten Verkaufstermin und die technischen Details.
Eine Smartphone-App aus Japan verspricht kostenlose SMS und Anrufe. Doch nun tauchen immer mehr Horrormeldungen über astronomische Rechnungen auf. Die Erklärung liegt auf der Hand.
Ein deutscher iPad-Zauberer versetzt die französisch sprechenden Leser von «20 Minutes Online» ins Staunen. Seit einem Monat lachen sich täglich Tausende Romands krumm und schief ob der Tricks des Geek-Magiers.
Üppige Oberweite, Wespentaille und lange Beine: Frauen in Games sind meist Ausgeburten der Männerfantasie. Aber vermitteln sie tatsächlich problematische Frauenbilder, wie Kritiker sagen?
Der Suchmaschinenriese wird künftig persönliche Informationen aus über 60 Google-Diensten kombinieren. Ist das schlecht? Wir beantworten die brennendsten Fragen.
Mark Zuckerberg macht die neuen Facebook-Profile mit der Lebens-Chronik für alle Nutzer zur Pflicht. Den Mitgliedern bleiben sieben Tage, um peinliche Sünden aus der Vergangenheit zu entfernen.
Es hört sich an wie ein Krimi: Der Kollegin von DJ Mad Morris wird im Club das iPhone geklaut. Doch der spürt die Täterinnen auf und liefert sie an die Polizei aus.
Das Urteil ist gefällt, Kim Schmitz muss bis zum 22. Februar in Untersuchungshaft bleiben. Auch eine Freilassung gegen Kaution wurde abgelehnt - der Megaupload-Gründer ist frustriert.
Apple kann auf ein äusserst erfolgreiches letztes Quartal zurückblicken. Mit 37 Millionen verkaufter iPhones pulverisiert das Unternehmen seinen bisherigen Verkaufsrekord.
Der grösste Filehoster Megaupload ist offline, die Hintermänner sitzen im Knast. Bei den anderen Datentausch-Seiten geht die Angst um. Ein Anbieter nach dem anderen schliesst die Pforten.
Bluewin-Nutzer konnten am Dienstag während Stunden nicht auf ihre E-Mails zugreifen. Laut Swisscom überlasten Spamwellen die Server. Und die Schwierigkeiten haben noch kein Ende.
Es ist zum Sterben langweilig. Weil aber Menschen offenbar gern anderen beim Arbeiten zusehen, verzeichnet eine Webcam in Wisconsin Rekordzugriffe.
Wer Bundesräten auf Facebook eine Nachricht hinterlassen oder ihnen auf Twitter folgen will, wird oft enttäuscht. Die wenigen, die ein Profil haben, schreiben meist nicht mal selbst.
Der Schlag des FBI gegen das Megaupload-Netzwerk war enorm. Entsprechend gross ist nun auch die Aufregung - sowohl bei den Nutzern, als auch bei anderen Plattform-Betreibern.
Maximal 125 Mitglieder zählt das exklusivste soziale Online-Netzwerk der Welt. Wer zum Kreis der Erlauchten gehört, kann mit Angela Merkel und Barack Obama Dateien tauschen.
Das Warten der Jailbreaking-Gemeinde hat ein Ende: Auch die neuesten mobilen Apple-Geräte können nun mit einem Hacker-Tool von ihren Software-Fesseln befreit werden.
astroengine writes "The number of known multi-planetary star systems has just tripled. What's more, the Kepler space telescope science team has just announced that they have doubled the number of confirmed exoplanetary sightings made by the observatory. Some of the newly discovered worlds are only 1.5 times the size of Earth, while others are bigger than Jupiter. Fifteen exoplanets are between Earth and Neptune in size, but further observations will be needed to determine if any have a rocky surface like Earth, or a gaseous consistency like Neptune."
McGruber writes "Wired reports that the American Association of Railroads is refuting the U.S. Transportation Security Administration memorandum that said hackers had disrupted railroad signals. In fact, 'There was no targeted computer-based attack on a railroad,' said AAR spokesman Holly Arthur. 'The memo on which the story was based has numerous inaccuracies.' The TSA memo was subject of an earlier Slashdot story in which Slashdot user currently_awake accurately commented on the true nature of the incident."
Diggester writes "Back in July 2010, the United Stated government approved few exemptions in a federal law which made jailbreaking/rooting of electronic devices(iPhones and Android devices) legal. The court ruling stated that every three years, the exemptions have to be renewed considering they don't infringe any copyrighted material. The three year period is due to expire and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to get the exemptions renewed. In order to do so, they have filed a petition which aims at government to declare jailbreaking legal once again. In addition to that, EFF is also asking for a change in the original ruling to include tablet devices." Here's the EFF's own page on the issue.
An anonymous reader writes "The ZX81 Museum was set-up to preserve and showcase a private collection of original Sinclair branded ZX81 hardware, software and literature. The museum has since expanded to include ZX81 software from other publishers of the time and a variety of other ZX81 peripherals and reference books. The collection dates from 1981 to 1983 and features the complete Sinclair-branded software series. The activities of the museum are regularly reported via Twitter, along with updates from the ever growing ZX81 fanbase. There is even a YouTube channel for the diehard 8-bit fans out there, of which there seems to be many!" This was one of the first computers I ever used; I suspect it's still buried in some deep stratum in my dad's basement. As is often the case, the old advertisements are great.
waderoush writes "Right now, content publishers who want to reach readers through dedicated mobile apps have to hire a separate engineering team to build each app — one for iOS (based on Objective-C), another for Android (Java), a third for Windows Phone (C#), etc. Yahoo's Platform Technology Group is working on an alternative: a set of JavaScript and HTML-based tools that would handle core UI and data-management tasks inside mobile apps for any operating system, moving developers closer to the nirvana of 'write once, run everywhere.' The tools are gradually being open-sourced — starting with Mojito, a framework for running hybrid server/browser module-widgets ('mojits') — and Yahoo is showing off what they can do in the form of Livestand, the news reader app it released for the iPad in November. In his first extensive public interview about Mojito and the larger 'Cocktails' project, Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, chief architect at Yahoo's Platform Technology Group, explains how the tools work and why the company is sharing them."
Harperdog writes "Dawn Stover recounts her attempts to access information at energy.gov, the U.S. Energy Department's 'cutting-edge, interactive information platform,' which apparently isn't any of those things. Especially frustrating were her attempts to locate important documents related to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. An interesting read for anyone interested in true government transparency."
silentbrad writes "Online passes are a recent staple in staving off used sales. Limiting what used buyers can access is a protective measure for publishers, much to the chagrin of parts of the gaming community. Chris Kohler of Wired argues that the death of used games is inevitable, and passes are the first step toward something exactly like a native anti-used game something integrated into consoles. He notes, of course, that digital is the future of buying games, but in the meantime we may be looking at 'an interim period in which the disc as a delivery method is still around but ... becomes more like a PC game, which are sold with one-time-use keys that grant one owner a license to play the game on his machine.' Also at Kotaku, the source for the Wired article (which is the source for the IGN article)."
First time accepted submitter azrael29a writes "22 EU members signed the controversial ACTA treaty today in Tokyo. However, the signatures of the EU member states and the EU itself will count for nothing unless the European Parliament gives its approval to ACTA in June."
Hugh Pickens writes "PC Magazine reports that the U.S. government used convicted con artist David Whitaker, owner of an online business selling steroids and human growth hormone to U.S. consumers, to help federal agents in a sting operation against Google when he began advertising with Google with advertisements that included the statement 'no prescription needed,' clearly violating U.S. laws. Google's settlement with the U.S. government for $500 million blamed AdWords sales by Canadian pharmacies, who allegedly were selling drugs to U.S. consumers. 'We banned the advertising of prescription drugs in the U.S. by Canadian pharmacies some time ago,' Google said then. 'However, it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place.' Peter Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who led the multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting, claims that chief executive Larry Page had personal knowledge of the operation, as did Sheryl Sandberg, a Google executive who now is the chief operating officer for Facebook. In 2009 Google started requiring online pharmacy advertisers to be certified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy's Verified Internet Pharmacy Practices Sites program and hired an outside company to detect pharmacy advertisers exploiting flaws in the Google's screening systems."
jjp9999 writes "A WikiLeaks cable reveals that the NASDAQ folded to pressure from the Chinese regime and kicked out a U.S.-based Chinese TV network, NTD TV. The Chinese Communist Party has been trying to block this station for years now, since it's one of the few major Chinese media that refuses to censor its content. Although they're blocked in Mainland China, they broadcast in with satellites. The timing of the incident aligns well with other actions launched by the CCP against the TV station. They used to broadcast into China through French satellite company Eutelsat, but their connection was cut. Reporters Without Borders investigated and found the Chinese regime was behind it. They now use a Taiwanese satellite."
judgecorp writes "British mobile operator O2 says it has stopped sharing users phone numbers with all websites, and says the breach was an accident. Yesterday, users found that the operator was automatically passing their mobile numbers to any site they visited, while using O2's mobile network,"
New submitter klchoward writes "Working for NOAA, I have been really pleased to see the weather data from the new Suomi NPP satellite coming into our computer models already but have been blown away by its capability to take stunning high-definition images of our planet. See the article at Huffington Post or go straight to the image at NASA's website." Reader derekmead has some images from further afield, too: these beautiful images of Mars come from NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
New submitter mazinger writes "In Hawaii, a bill has been proposed to retain data on Internet users and the sites they visit. Apparently, there is also no requirement for a warrant to obtain the information from service providers. The bill affects not only ISPs but also coffee shops and anyone providing Internet access."
mikejuk writes "Online Computer Science classes that have attracted tens of thousands of students have been put back for a couple of weeks. Is this on account of Sebastian Thrun's resignation from Stanford? Whatever the reason, providing certificates for online students seems to be a real point of contention. James Plummer, dean of Stanford's School of Engineering, said 'I think it will actually be a long time, maybe never, when actual Stanford degrees would be given for fully online work by anyone who wishes to register for the courses.' The good news is that the delay means that there is still time to sign up."
Orome1 writes "In a perhaps not wholly unexpected move, Symantec has advised the customers of its pcAnywhere remote control application to stop using it until patches for a slew of vulnerabilities are issued. If the attackers place a network sniffer on a customer's internal network and have access to the encryption details, the pcAnywhere traffic — including exchanged user login credentials — could be intercepted and decoded. If the attackers get their hands on the cryptographic key they can launch remote control sessions and, thus, access to systems and sensitive data. If the cryptographic key itself is using Active Directory credentials, they can also carry out other malicious activities on the network."