Что произошло с утопической мечтой о мире, в котором "позабыты хлопоты, остановлен бег, вкалывают роботы, счастлив человек"? Просто она возникла раньше, чем могла быть воплощена в жизнь… но сегодня все изменилось! Мы расскажем о настоящем и будущем робототехники, об искусственном интеллекте, а также об эре, в которой роботы будут воевать на наших войнах, лечить наши болезни, отнимать наши рабочие места и уводить наших девушек

After more than two years, Apple's Safari browser for Macs remains vulnerable to attacks that allow websites to litter a user's hard drive with thousands of malicious files.

Some of the IT industry's biggest names are lending their support to Random Hacks of Kindness, a weekend of hard coding at which volunteer engineers seek to solve real world problems.

A pair of university researchers are presenting a system which could greatly advance the use of cryptography in computing.

Researchers from the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, have developed proof-of-concept implementations of a scheme that exploits unencrypted wireless connections to blast PCs with ads.

An Australian Federal Police (AFP) operation to rescue a hacked database of 60,000 domain names' usernames and passwords and 13,000 credit card numbers — to use as evidence — was almost foiled when the hackers were tipped off and went into a "deletion frenzy".

An internet service provider that has brought more than 20 lawsuits alleging spam abuses has been ordered to pay one of the defendants almost $807,000 for filing "groundless claims" that mired the company in years of costly litigation.

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for his role in a cyber attack on the Church of Scientology's websites two years ago.

Authentication firm VeriSign has warned that botnets could become more widespread and dangerous as the services become easier to find and cheaper to hire.

Когда-то веб состоял только из статических страничек. Позже появились динамический контент и технология AJAX, позволяющая частично  обновлять содержание страниц. Но для реализации приложений, работающих в реальном времени - онлайн игр, биржевых программ, отдельных частей социальных сетей, - этого оказалось мало

Инструментарий Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 позволяет автоматизировать процедуру установки ОС Windows и приложений, а также упростить массовую миграцию с Win2k/WinXP на Vista/Seven. В этом ролике мы покажем, как установить MDT 2010 на Win2k8, создадим ресурсы установки и сгенерируем загрузочные образы.

Pentagon bizarro-boffinry bureau DARPA is seeking to develop a set of tools for internet users which are nominally intended for some military purpose - but which would seem at least as useful to those determined to get around measures designed to thwart copyright violators and extreme-porn aficionados.

A controversial remote administration program that a Pennsylvania school district installed on student-issued laptops contains a security hole that put the students at risk of being spied on by people outside the school, according to a security firm that examined the software.

An unreleased movie about the life of infamous hacker Adrian Lamo has leaked to BitTorrent. The movie, titled Hackers Wanted, failed to get a conventional release following alleged conflicts between its producer and others on the team. Lamo has been telling TorrentFreak how he feels about this unofficial release.

A group of Colombian and foreign hackers plan to disrupt Colombia's May 30 presidential elections, the country's Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Saturday.

Solving a 400-piece jigsaw puzzle should be a doddle – but it's won a computer a new world record.

Security experts are warning of a click-jacking worm spreading via Facebook which tricks users into posting it on their status updates, although it does not appear to be malicious.