Unfurlough.US was built in just 5 hours, and went live Thursday to help workers caught in the political crossfire of the government shutdown find some freelance gigs…….

Homegrown hardware to ship with a mix of Intel, Nvidia parts……

jds91md writes “Today’s NY Times delivers a great story of the development of the iPhone by Apple. It focuses on the events during the leadup to Steve Jobs taking the stage with shockingly buggy prototypes and pulling off the show that is now history. ‘Only about a hundred iPhones even existed, all of them of…

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2768-1 – A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in icedtea-web, a web browser plugin for running applets written in the Java programming language. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker could cause the plugin to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user invoking…

DARPA’s WildCat can run around beautifully, while new footage of a robot mule and humanoid show them devouring challenging terrain…….

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shuttered many web sites, including time.gov, as part of the government shutdown. The NIST Internet Time Service will stay up…….

In-memory databases are hot, but tiered storage may be our cooler destination…….

The iPhone maker is said to be planning to set up “stores within stores” in smaller cities in India, according to the Economic Times…….

Responding to video of a blazing Model S that circulated earlier this week, Tesla posted an explanation of the accident and facts about fires in gasoline cars…….

Nerval’s Lobster writes “Earlier this week, a small helicopter drone tumbled out of the sky over midtown Manhattan, crashing to the sidewalk near Grand Central Station. On the way down it almost hit a businessman, who plucked out the video card from the wreckage and handed it over to a local television-news station. In the…