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20 times larger than Stuxnet, two years old... and still active A new super-cyberweapon targeting countries like Iran and Israel that has been knocking around in computers for two years has been discovered by researchers.…

Cash-strapped dad in court for Wi-Fi kit theft A hard-up ex-engineer at Nokia Siemens swiped wireless routers worth thousands of pounds from his employer to refurbish and flog on eBay.…

We'd rather be fending off global cyberwar, sniff Feds A small town US mayor and his son have been arrested over allegations they hacked into a website calling for his recall.…

Sticking it to The Man, man, but for lulz too A new activist group is drumming up recruits for a cyberwar campaign against corporate giants due to launch on Friday, 25 May.…

50,000 punters sound off on privacy policy rewrite Facebook may be forced to make changes to its data use policy after campaigners helped drive enough complaints about the company's own proposed amendments to trigger a user vote on the matter.…

Theo Bucker's Lebanon are riding a wave of long-awaited success, and FIFA.com caught up with two of the teams standouts: Mohamed Ghaddar and Zakaria Charara.

Goalkeeper Adam Federici and midfielder Chris Herd have withdrawn from the Australian squad with injuries ahead of next month's 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifiers.

Jamaica coach and former playing idol Theodore Tappa Whitmore talks to FIFA.com about his focus on discipline, a new-look Reggae Boyz and hopes of reaching Brazil 2014.

Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella has expanded his squad for the upcoming Brazil 2014 qualifier against Ecuador with the inclusion of local players, but Boca Juniors star Juan Roman Riquelme was again omitted.

FIFA.com runs the rule over Oceania heavyweights New Zealand, who approach next week’s OFC Nations Cup with the aim of continuing their significant recent growth.

Coach Joachim Low on Monday unveiled his final 23-man squad for next month's UEFA EURO 2012, cutting four players from his initial pre-list.

Phil Jagielka will finally get to go to a major tournament after he was called into England's UEFA EURO 2012 squad as replacement for Gareth Barry.

Spanish striker Fernando Torres claimed on Monday he was feeling in phenomenal form and hoped that he would be entrusted with leading the defending champions attack at UEFA EURO 2012 next month.

Chelsea's UEFA Champions League hero Petr Cech has signed a new four-year contract with the English Premier League club.

Theo Bucker's Lebanon are riding a wave of long-awaited success, and FIFA.com caught up with two of the teams standouts: Mohamed Ghaddar and Zakaria Charara.

Sotheby's is selling another a piece of Apple history that'll appeal to collectors. The auction house is offering a memo Steve Jobs sent to Atari in 1974. The memo contains changes Atari could make to its World Cup Soccer arcade game that'll add variety to the game. The memo has pencil-dra ...

ESPN Pit Reporter Dave Burns covers NASCAR's premiere Sprint Cup Series for the network. He's been reporting on racing for many years, and recently abandoned his personal paper-based note system for carefully selected iPad apps. Burns says that note-taking is "highly personal," and that ESPN ...

The hard-working Chronic-Dev Team has announced that just over one million users have jailbroken their iOS devices with Greenpois0n Absinthe 2.0. That's impressive, considering the jailbreak was released just three days ago. Greenpois0n Absinthe 2.0 is for firmware 5.1.1 only and available ...

Unlike the week before, this past week hasn't seen an epic B.S.-storm of rumors. A few of the ones that came out got huge piles of attention, however, not the least because rumors of a 16:9 screen iPhone sound so delicious to so many that we all want to believe... even though we've all been " ...

Back at Macworld | iWorld 2012, TUAW editor-in-chief Victor Agreda had a chance to talk with the creator of the iBackFlip Somersault (US$89.95). Now that this iPad bag has been in the wild for a time and has gone through a few design revisions, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to ...

A couple who locked an 11-year-old boy in a converted coal bunker in Blackpool are jailed for two years each.

Three political parties have resigned from Nepal's Maoist-led coalition government as fears grow that the country is descending into constitutional chaos.

The two biggest teachers' unions threaten industrial action against what they call the "denigration" of the teaching profession.

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A South African newspaper removes from its website an image of a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed following threats by ANC supporters.

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Chasapple: @YouTube is missing a category for insects

Chasapple: @Computerworld just some better coding on the Facebook end and some recent phone browsers

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When Margot (Michelle Williams), 28, meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When she learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about ...

A powerful story of family, friendship, love, honor and courage, End Of Watch stars Academy Award(R) nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala as they patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles. Giving the story a gripping ...

Based on original stories from immensely popular Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, WALLANDER follows the titular chief inspector Kurt Wallander (Krister Henriksson) as he investigates crimes and solves mysteries in the deceptively dark underbelly of picturesque modern Sweden. THE REVENGE beg ...

A true story of two men who should never have met - a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

From Oscar(R)- and Emmy(R)-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated; Twist of Faith) comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a ...

Skywiper, Flame, Flamer - whatever you want to call it, this malware is making the headlines today. Find out more.

Iranian authorities claim to have discovered another targeted cyberattack against the country - the Flamer worm (also known as Flame).

Science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon does *not* believe that all humans should be subcutaneously RFID chipped at birth.

Serco, a large international government services provider, disclosed a compromise of its systems that may have led to 123,000 people's Social Security Numbers and other sensitive details to be in the hands of criminals. A rather unusual way to celebrate Memorial Day for our dedicated government ...

First there was a warning that there were zombies on the road ahead.. Now it's the turn of the Daleks.

"Eider," the fifth named release of the VP8 Codec SDK (libvpx), is now available. You can download the Eider libvpx snapshot (version 1.1.0) from our Downloads page, or clone it from our Git repository. In addition to a number of enhancements, this release fixes a decoder bug first introduced i ...

Hardware product cycles are very long, especially from the software developer’s perspective. However, in just under two years after the launch of the WebM Project, the leading chip vendors are bringing to the market full hardware support for VP8 real time and streaming video decoding and encodin ...

Today we have made available the fifth generation of the silicon-proven G-Series 1 VP8 hardware decoder IP, internally called “Eagle”. Eagle has the following key figures:1080p 60fps VP8 decoding at 200MHzMaximum clock frequency 290 MHz, up by 32% (65 nm LP process, topographical synthesis)357 ...

The fifth generation of the widely adopted H1 hardware encoder for VP8, internally known as “Evergreen”, has become available for licensing today. In the Evergreen release, we focused on improving the real-time communication features and on optimizing the encoding speed and visual quality. In pa ...

"Duclair," the fourth named release of the VP8 Codec SDK (libvpx), is now available. You can download the Duclair libvpx snapshot (version 1.0.0) from our Downloads page or clone it from our Git repository. This release fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in Cayuga (v0.9.7), so we encourage al ...

Iranian authorities claim to have discovered another targeted cyberattack against the country - the Flamer worm.

Science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon does *not* believe that all humans should be subcutaneously RFID chipped at birth.

Serco, a large international government services provider, disclosed a compromise of its systems that may have led to 123,000 people's Social Security Numbers and other sensitive details to be in the hands of criminals. A rather unusual way to celebrate Memorial Day for our dedicated government ...

First there was a warning that there were zombies on the road ahead.. Now it's the turn of the Daleks.

Password policies are the enemy of security, the developer of a password analyzing tool concludes, while a vendor pushes it further to decree that password security is, basically, toast.

As a part of the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), Microsoft is pleased to present an initial set of monthly security updates – originally released on May 8 – in the consortium’s newly established Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework ( ...

Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page, and the May 2012 Security Bulletin Release Webcast slide deck. During the webcast, we fielded 8 questions on various topics, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We ...

Hello, Have you ever wondered why bulletins group particular issues together? Or one set of products and not another? Well today Jonathan Ness has posted an insightful Security Research & Defense (SRD) blog discussing some of the nuances and packaging decisions that went into MS12-034. This ...

During our investigation into the disclosure of confidential data shared with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners, we determined that a member of the MAPP program, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co., Ltd., had breached our non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Microsoft takes breach ...

Hello, Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the May security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8. This month’s release includes 7 bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Silverlight, and .NET Framework. All 7 bulletins ...