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  • Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

    Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

  • Hackers target important Saudi websites Hackers target important Saudi websites

    The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

  • All Yahoos spending cant make it cool again

    Which will it be? FORTUNE -- Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr looks like an expensive and misguided attempt by chief executive Marissa Mayer to somehow make the Web 1.0 company "cool" again. Instead of innovating her way out of the mediocre corner of the Internet in which Yahoo currently resides, the former Google executive has instead decided to take the company's ...

  • Yahoo must learn from past MA mistakes

    Tumblr is the latest, and perhaps buzziest, startup to be acquired by Yahoo -- but the purple tech giant's track record for previous mergers is spotty at ...

  • Associated Press Financial Times and BBC have been hacked by them - but who are the Syrian Electronic Army

    Earlier this month, several employees of the satirical news website The Onion received what looked like harmless unsolicited emails, containing apparently innocuous hyperlinks. One such message purported to be from an address at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; it invited the recipient to click through to an article seemingly from The Washington Post. In fact, the link redirected to a page ...


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Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring is one of Yasujiro Ozus most direct and powerful shomin-geki, or modern family dramas. Shomin-geki was the genre in which Ozu excelled, and the second half of his cinematic career is defined largely by the poignant, sympathetic, and utterly transcendent wa ... ...

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  • Boom NASA captures massive moon explosion on video

    (Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) It's a good thing you weren't standing on the Mare Imbrium on the moon on March 17. You might have been ground into space dust. A meteoroid "the size of a small boulder" crashed into the lunar surface and exploded with a flash so bright, it was visible to the naked eye from Earth. NASA has been keeping an eye on the moon ...

  • After long delay 787 Dreamliner flights resume

    (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Five months later, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is once again aloft. United Flight 1, took off from Houston this morning en route to Chicago. It marked the first flight of Boeing's next-generation airliner since the entire worldwide fleet of ...

  • 4 biggest challenges facing Google Glass

    Google Glass is in for a bumpy ride. Unlike some journalists, I believe that Glass has great potential, especially when developers build more apps for it. Google faces an uphill battle of Everest proportions spurring mass adoption for the device, though. Just because it's "the future" doesn't mean it will be embraced by the public (see: Segway). I believe Google Glass faces ...

  • Ex-GTA producer Dont expect 3 consoles in next next gen

    (Credit: Microsoft) A former Grand Theft Auto producer at Rockstar Games thinks that the next, next generation in consoles won't have three hardware makers competing for your dollars. Speaking to Games Industry in ...

  • Pinterest now offers more than pretty pictures

    (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Pinterest now offers users more information behind all those pretty pictures. The scrapbooking social network today tweaked the power of certain pins to provide more details on the showcased items, thanks to new active links to third-party Web sites. As described in the ...

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