Frustrated users were still taking to Twitter to complain and Sony’s Playstation Network support page still showed intermittent connectivity Monday night in the wake of a serious wave on attacks that… Read more »
Facebook is trying to make it easier for its developers to write code quickly, so it has built a new programming language called Hack. It’s transitioning as much of its code… Read more »
Technical Machines wants to take a connected microcontroller that runs JavaScript and eliminate the barriers between web development and the internet of things, and just raised $1 million to do so. Read more »
When SEA took credit for taking down the New York Times and Twitter’s UK site for some people, many may have wondered how they did it. Here’s how. Read more »
After claiming responsibility for the outage at the New York Times, the Syrian Electronic Army has boasted of takeovers at Twitter and the Huffington Post Read more »
There’s a new San Francisco hardware incubator on the scene with a four-month program and deep ties to manufacturing in China. Meet Highway1, an incubator backed by China’s PCH International. Read more »
SparkFun, the DIY hardware retailer, is taking it’s hacker classes aimed at kids and educators on the road. It’s part of many efforts to get kids involved in making their own… Read more »
Facebook’s hackathons have generated some cool ideas. Facebook shared the top hacks from 2012 that range from silly (3-D printed globes showing where and how people use Facebook) to serious (calendar… Read more »
Reading about hackers hitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I was struck by the hackers accessing a thermostat, and the tone of resignation around preventing such attacks. So how will we… Read more »
ISPs have been exposed as hijacking the search traffic that some of their customers have tried to type into Yahoo and Bing search engines, and now the backlash begins. Now companies… Read more »