Inside the Lucasfilm data center
SAN FRANCISCO—Given the cult-film status of 1971's THX 1138 in the George Lucas universe, it should come as little surprise that the total capacity of Lucasfilm's giant data center is 11.38 petabits p...
YouTube to Share Revenue with Creators
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said today his company (now owned by Google) "is going to move in [the] direction" of rewarding video creators for their content, as part of a panel discussion at the World Eco...
White-box cell phones
At the Mobile Identity Workshop today Doc Searls led a discussion of white-box, or open phones. The problem is that, at least in the US, phones are tied to a particular carrier and have features crip...
The joy of the hack
A reporter just called me and wanted to talk about my virus, Elk Cloner, that I wrote back in 1982, when I was in the 9th grade. Apparently it's the 25th anniversary of the virus and since I wrote th...
eBay Delisting All Auctions for Virtual Property
from the definition-of-what-is-real dept. — The growing popularity of Massively Multiplayer games has brought the issue of ownership rights in virtual worlds, and the appropriateness of what is call...
Googlebombs Defused?
Google says they've managed to neutralize the impact of a lot of Googlebombs. — A Googlebomb is a when a group of people get together to link to a certain site with a certain set of keywords, in ord...
Google Metaverse, Made in China?
The Google Metaverse meme has popped up again. Michael Eisenberg, a general partner with Benchmark Capital in Jerusalem kicked off a fresh discussion about Google building its own metaverse, a.k.a a ...
Seclists.Org shut down by Myspace and GoDaddy
Many of you reported that our SecLists.Org security mailing list — archive was down most of yesterday (Wed), and all you really need to — know is that we're back up and running! But I'm going int...
A quick word about Googlebombs
Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini — We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the...
Books: Mapped
One of the first things I did upon moving to New York City was to buy some books about this great metropolis: guide books, historical accounts, collections of stories from famous reporters. My excite...
Amapedia: The Conspicuous Consumption Community Wiki
While browsing Amazon.Com this evening I noticed a reference to Amapedia, a collaborative wiki the company describes as a "community for sharing information about the products you like the most." — ...
Update: At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies
Roughly 25 million Americans — or 18 percent of the U.S. online population — have illegally downloaded a full-length movie, a study released Wednesday asserts. — In a study of 2,600 Americans polled...
Explay's nanoprojector gets a little face time
While we were able to get a little hands-on time with Microvision's own minuscule projector earlier this month at CES, the folks over at TFOT were able to snag some face time with Explay's ridiculousl...
Microsoft Word Zero-Day Attack Discovered
Microsoft's security response team has launched an investigation into reports of a zero-day attack against a previously unknown vulnerability affecting its ever-present Microsoft Word program. — The...
Hi-def DVD security is bypassed
The encryption on high-definition DVDs has been bypassed, the consortium backing the copy protection system on discs has confirmed. — At the end of last year a hacker claimed he had defeated the pro...
Rumor Smashed: iPhone Will NOT Come With 1.5 Years of Free Service
This morning, a reputable investment site made mention that AT&T plans to give away 18 months of service for free with every iPhone. It's not important who said this cough*thestreet.com*cough, but a ...
New bill proposes analog TV warning
Analog-only television sets may soon be required to carry a new warning label if a new bill passes the House of Representatives, but it won't be to warn about violent, adult, or controversial TV conte...
Wireless news, views and reviews
APPLE WANTS TO MAKE MAC BOOK SMALLER... BY PUTTING OPTICAL DISC DRIVE AT THE BOTTOM — Apple may be focused on reinventing the phone with the iPhone, but that doesn't mean that it has forgot about it...
A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube
In November, Google officially closed its acquisition of YouTube, and since then we've received a number of questions about what will happen next. The summary is that Google Video and YouTube will co...