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Not every telling photo is accurate; not every accurate photo is telling. This one, which appears to be two trained police dogs restraining a Chicago cop in riot gear from attacking protesters, tells a more interesting story than the cops-punch-protesters headline image of the protest.

You have to admit the new generation of data-collection devices able to copy every byte of data from cell phones without even delaying the traffic ticket that became an excuse to steal personal data without a warrant. Cool, but still 3D, physical proof that come technology is so efficient it shouldn't be available even to (especially not to cops)

A little technical understanding works wonders in court; even a very little bit, like knowing the difference between an IP address and a person, or that WLANs, poaching, wardriving and bad geolocation make accusations based on IP more random than righteous

Is Google Drive the functionality that will harbor a new age of personal cloud computing?

A relatively simple machine designed to read paper ballots and store the results broke new ground in New York gubernatorial elections by adding tens of thousands of extra votes to those cast by humans after warm polling place caused vote-counter to overheat.

The security patch Microsoft distributed yesterday included a comprehensive patch for the flaws exploited by Duqu; more interestingly, it also included fixes to keep poisoned .RTF files from exploiting same weakness as '90s-era Word Macro viruses.

Anonymous is disavowing knowledge of a YouTube video warning the collective will leak proof that aliens visit Earth, which is funny, but is just one of a growing list of trolling incidents that hold Anonymous up to ridicule.

A new joint-venture between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft settles the pending litigation, and raises questions about the future of an Android-based Nook.

For all its influence, Anonymous is little understood, often even by other Anon. Its nature changes with each group of Anon and few perceptions agree. Many explain the Anonymous they see in pictures that illustrate what they do, why and who they see behind those masks.

Risk analyses list malware, espionage and user negligence among top threats; Anonymous and other hacktivists are usually farther down the top 10. So why do the alarm bells start ringing about semi-anarchistic protest-hackers as votes on unpopular cybersecurity bills approach?

YouTube series FPSRussia entertains by executing Xboxes and a firing off lots of cool things that go 'boom.' The latest shows how adding a submachine gun to a quad-rotor drone creates a manikin-killing, car-destroying death machine your crazy neighbor could build with no trouble.