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The AusCERT 2013 conference has started, so the AusSHIRT 2013 #sophospuzzle is officially live. See if you can transform the code on the T-shirt and win a prize! (You don't have to be at the conference to enter.)

Jeffrey Beall, a US academic librarian who uses his Scholarly Open Access blog to write about scholarly publishers' dubious practices, is being threatened with a $1 billion lawsuit by an Indian publishing group.

Jeffrey Beall, a US academic librarian who uses his Scholarly Open Access blog to write about scholarly publishers' dubious practices, is being threatened with a $1 billion lawsuit by an Indian publishing group.

The call has gone out to Yahoo Japan's 200 million users to change their passwords, after the company warned that it suspected hackers had managed to access a file containing 22 million user IDs.

The call has gone out to Yahoo Japan's 200 million users to change their passwords, after the company warned that it suspected hackers had managed to access a file containing 22 million user IDs.

Over the seven months since Microsoft released Windows 8, the sales data haven’t been encouraging, with IDC reporting a 13.9 percent decline in the PC industry last quarter, its largest on record. But it looks like there’s one bright spot: as much as 10 pe ...

Leap Motion revealed a new video today showing off the device's gesture control capabilities with Windows 7 and 8. When plugged into a Windows OS device, the Leap Motion will support full multitouch gestures out of the box, allowing users to click, drag, scroll, swipe ...

The next Xbox is nigh, and you've just discovered the very best place on the internet to watch the next generation of video games come to life. Tomorrow, May 21st, starting at 9:30AM PT, The Verge and Polygon will team up to bring you Microsoft's Xbox reveal live. Joi ...

Microsoft is preparing to unveil its latest gaming console to the world, and we now know at least one of the titles it will be showcasing on stage in Redmond tomorrow: FIFA 14. EA Sports has announced (via Facebook) that a next-generation version of the enormously pop ...

Twitter's video-sharing app, Vine, has been used for a variety of teasers, including a Wolverine movie, a TV series, and the new Daft Punk album. Keen to promote its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft is taking to Vine to create some entertaining and unique six-seco ...