Closing on a million YouTube hits, an ad for the Jii USB lighter from Japan is pure anime madness…….

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Jason Healey writes at Defense One that if the Obama administration conducts military strikes against Syria, as now seems likely, it should use military cyber weapons at the earliest possible moment to show ‘that cyber operations are not evil witchcraft but can be humanitarian.’ Cyber capabilities could first disrupt Syrian…

Removes mandatory filtering and explains social media takedown laws……

Telefónica, Spain’s largest mobile operator, works with Alcatel-Lucent to build out a nationwide 4G LTE network in Spain…….

colinneagle writes with word of work done by researchers at Arizona State University, Delaware State University and GFS Technology Inc., who find that the multiple-picture sequence security option of Windows 8 suffers from various flaws — some of them specific to a password system based on gestures, and some analogous to weaknesses in conventional passwords…

There goes the neighborhood……

Even ordinary words are suddenly more whimsical and sophisticated when you run them through a Yahoo-style logo generator…….

A larger iPhone model may be in the works, according to a new report…….

The commercial spaceline co-owned by billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group just pushed its flagship aircraft higher and faster than ever before…….

Some days, an aircraft wants to be more than just a troop transport. The Bell Boeing V-22 program is now trying out the tilt-rotor Osprey to see how it might fare as a flying gas station…….