Tag: Digg

BitTorrent is often maligned, but overlooking it might be foolish. One IT department found that it can speed patching and image updates so much, that rollouts that once took four days now only take four hours. Read more →

35% of girls, compared with 20% of boys, have blogs; 32% of girls have their own websites, against 22% of boys. Girls have embraced social networking sites on a massive scale, with 70% of US girls aged 15-17 having built and regularly worked on a profile page on websites such as MySpace, Bebo & Facebook,… Read more →

On March 29 at 8 pm cities around the world will plunge itself into darkness as a gesture in fight against global warming. At a similar event in 2007, Sydney residents and businesses demonstrated their concern about global warming by switching their lights off for one hour. Read more →

Behold, a video of the Newton Virus. Back in 2005, Troika, the British-based art collective that was behind the Heathrow Terminal 5 sculpture that some of you recently described as a “disco turd,” created a virus for Macs, called Newton. It came on a little USB key that looked like a cross between a malevolent… Read more →

A fossilised “sea monster” unearthed on an Arctic island is the largest marine reptile known to science, Norwegian scientists have announced. Read more →

The stolen credentials belong to companies from around the world and include more than 2500 North American companies, some of which are the world’s top 100 domains, according to security company Finjan. The ISP hosting the db has been notified but they still have not removed it. Finjan says companies can email them to check… Read more →

This video shows you how to cut cables to whatever length you need and then put the little plastic thingy on the end so you can use it again. The video focuses on Ethernet cables so you don’t have to pay your internet provider extra to run cables to another computer from your router. Read more →

A list of 5 companies that should be acquired in 2008, and includes Yahoo acquiring AOL. Read more →

Ode to math. Read more →

A recently released study by a security firm says that using an open WiFi network without permission is stealing. Ars looks at the ethics of open WiFi Read more →