itwbennett writes Just a few hours after a fake CNN news report appeared on Facebook Friday, more than 60,000 users had gone to the spoofed, malware bearing page according to Sophos Senior Security Advisor Chester Wisniewski. Facebook didnt respond t...

First time accepted submitter AWESOM-O 4k writes It seems like the popular file sharing site BTJunkie.org is gone. On btjunkie.org you are greeted with the following: 2005 — 2012 This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy...

An anonymous reader writes Checking a Twitter, Facebook or email account for updates may be more tempting than alcohol and cigarettes, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people regulate their daily desires. Researchers also found ...

Hugh Pickens writes Space.com reports that an online petition directed at the USPS and its Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) hopes to collect 100,000 signatures or more by March 13, the 82nd anniversary of the announcement of Plutos discovery a...

An anonymous reader writes Some people remember Sealab as being a cl***ified program, but it was trying not to be, says Ben Hellwarth, author of the new book Sealab: Americas Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor, which aims to bring so...

An anonymous reader writes Google is at daggers end with a law firm its been using since 2008, after discovering that lawyers in the law firm, named Pepper Hamilton LLP, were representing a patent licensing business that sued Googles Android partners...

An anonymous reader writes The U.S. Election ***istance Commission is sponsoring an online, open innovation challenge to search for creative answers to the question: How might we design an accessible election experience for everyone? The goal is to d...

New submitter KA.7210 writes I am an employed mechanical engineer, having worked with the same company since graduation from college 5 years ago. I am looking to increase my credentials by taking more engineering courses, potentially towards a certif...

wiredmikey writes A hacker who tried to land an IT job at Marriott by hacking into the companys computer systems, and then unwisely extorting the company into hiring him, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. The hacker started his malicious que...

sciencehabit writes Petroleum geologists have long used air guns in their search for oil and gas deposits. Sudden blasts from the devices generate seismic waves that they use to map underground rock formations. Could the same technique be used to stu...

tsu doh nimh writes Two months after authorities shut down a m***ive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly ...

alphadogg writes Former FCC chairman Reed Hundt made waves when he called the House spectrum auction legislation the single worst telecom bill hes seen. The legislation, which would severely restrict the FCCs ability to place conditions on spectrum a...

First time accepted submitter creativeHavoc writes Forbes author Tomio Geron takes a look at data accrued by mobile app monitoring startup Crittercism. After looking at normalized data of crashes over the various mobile operating system versions he c...

Hugh Pickens writes Ken Gaebler discusses a new way of hiring called employment simulations, which are gaining popularity among high-tech firms that are seeking data from prospective employees that you cant get from sit-down interviews. In a typical ...

An anonymous reader writes Google has just made some interesting changes to their developer pages. As of today, all of the documentation, source code, and firmware images pertaining to CDMA Android devices (including the Verizon Galaxy Nexus) have be...