An anonymous reader writes with a link to the New York Times’ summary of a security and privacy disaster that’s been inspiring angry posts on various social networks, including LinkedIn itself: “Security researchers are calling LinkedIn’s new mobile app, Intro, a dream come true for hackers or intelligence agencies… Intro redirects e-mail traffic to and…

144,000 Bitcoins seized from ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’……

With the help of just one MacBook, two Germans formalize a theorem that confirms the existence of God. Allegedly, of course…….

After reviewing Mac OS X Mavericks, I’m wondering what people are looking for in the next version of Mac OS X…….

An anonymous reader writes “The Internet Archive today announced it has enabled HTTPS connections by default on archive.org and openlibrary.org. The organization today also revealed it now sees over 3 million users per day. Both sites are still accessible over HTTP connections. Since the Wayback Machine is hosted on archive.org, it also follows the same…

Apple’s new Mac Pro will be wearing red when it’s auctioned off next month in New York City…….

First time accepted submitter bashaw writes “What ethical responsibilities do software developers have in determining the role that mobile devices take in our lives? As performance increases, size decreases, and the only limitation is the software available, mobile devices have expanded into new areas of our lives for which they were not designed. This raises…

‘Anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases have led to unprecedented regional warmth’……

In Iowa and Florida, they have a new method of chasing suspects. The police car’s grill opens up and out is projected a better method of keeping up with the vehicle they’re chasing…….

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201310-15 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GNU Automake, allowing local arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the user running an Automake-based build. Versions less than 1.11.6 are affected…….