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Will Romney Pay Tax Return Ransom?
As Bitfloor.com (the U.S.' largest Bitcoin site) services have come grinding to a halt in the wake of a "$250,000 theft of its currency":http://www.techspot.com/news/50043-bitfloor-breached-hacker-makes-off-with-250000-in-bitcoins.html, two questions...
How Did AntiSec Score 12 Million Apple IDs from the FBI?
The fun-loving, government oppression-hating hackers at AntiSec are back in action with the release of over a million Apple user IDs. The encrypted file hit the web late Monday night along with a characteristic rant against everything from the NSA to...
The Wiki Weapon Project Promises A 3D-Printed Handgun For Everyone
The 3D-printing gun enthusiasts are at it again coming up with master plans to democratize weapons manufacturing, and this time, they're doing it in the name of the First Amendment. That's right. The Second Amendment is important too, but if you listen...
Motherboard TV: The Exoskeletons of Tokyo's Cyberdyne
The only thing holding me back from being a cyborg -- aside from cost, science, a robo-averse girlfriend, and a fear of being stared at -- is the fact that once you go bot, you probably can't go back. I like being flesh and blood, even if my old sack...
Anonymous Starts Its Own 'To Catch a Predator'
Anonymous, the world's preeminent becostumed online activist group, is going after pedophiles again. Never mind that the name of the project, Operation PedoChat, sounds almost as creepy as the assholes they're attacking—Anonymous is aiming to shut down...
Motherboard TV: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Tomorrow, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to announce some of the most highly-anticipated — and poorly-embargoed - findings in recent memory: evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson. Now, we won’t know for sure until...
In the 80s, Japanese Dudes Drove Power Rangers
Japan is well-known for spawning multitudes of sub-cultures within any cultural sphere, be it music, fashion, and even cars. Japanese car culture, tortured movies like Tokyo Drift aside, is filled with so many derivatives, offshoots, and homages that...
The Navy Is Bringing Solar Power Underwater
The vast majority of technological progress effects our above-ground environs. Which makes sense, because that's where we live. And the great bulk of tech innovation these days is a mad dash to improve our relationship with the environment we routinely...
In Search Revolution, Google Will Start Answering Questions
Google is no longer satisfied with being the largest search engine on the web, as well as the most visited website on the Internet. It now wants to save users the time it takes to click on outbound links by directly providing answers as well.
China Can't Kill the Internet But That Won't Stop It From Trying
Last Thursday, Beijing showed off what might be a new tool in its war on information. At around 11am China time, Internet users on the mainland found themselves unable to access multiple foreign websites and a number of Chinese sites, including Sina's...
The Occupy Batmobile is a Projector-Armed Protest Van
I've always been fascinated by Occupy Wall Street's "Bat Signal," a projected "99%" blasted onto buildings as a rallying cry that first appeared in mid-November 2011. It reminded me of Graffiti Research Lab's "Laser Tag project":http://www...
Twilight of the Phreaks: The Fates of the 10 Best Early Hackers
Before "Anonymous and LulzSec":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/21/2011-was-the-year-of-anonymous, before "warez":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez bulletin boards, before logins and passwords, before everything, there was phreaking.The first waves...