The Beautiful Process of Making DVDs [Image Cache]
I didn’t think that the process of making DVDs could be pretty, but this collection of photos proved me wrong. Take a look.More »
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One Man Captured Secret Video in North Korea and Lived to Blog About It [Video]
In a quest to document daily life in the notoriously secretive North Korea, Steve Gong managed to capture video footage inside the country without anyone noticing. How’d he do it? Well, North Korean’s don’t know the Canon 5D records video.More »
Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth
jfruhlinger writes "'Johnny Northside,' a Minneapolis blogger with less than 500 readers a day, revealed that a University of Minnesota researcher studying mortgage fraud had been involved in a fraudulent mortgage himself; the blog post was at least partially responsible for the researcher losing his job. The researcher then sued the blogger and won — despite the blogger having his facts straight. Johnny Northside plans to appeal the verdict."
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40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus
Orome1 writes “This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as academic proofs of concept, quickly turned into geek pranks, then evolved into cybercriminal tools. By 2005, the virus scene had been monetized, and virtually all viruses were developed with the sole purpose of making money via more or less complex business models.”
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