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Appallingly young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs always have to go that one big step further than all the other overachievers out there.

Since 2009 malware writers with a yen for mobile hardware and the clink of hard Bitcoin have been doing something unusual in the malware market – using it increasingly as a way to make money rather than just mess with people.

Cloud computing may be the biggest thing ever to hit IT, but not for good solid technical reasons, and not because it gives IT the chance to show it really does know what their companies really need from technology to make the business shine.

Please don't take this personally, but the largest, most sophisticated organization devoted to creating open standards, open debate and resolution of divisive issues and the peaceful interoperation of all things digital just declared your body non-standard.

A survey of 10,000 customers published today by Paragon Software Group highlights two interesting things about hard-drive maintenance developers and their customers.

The U.S. Supreme Court may consider corporations to be people, but three federal judges in three states have ruled that an IP address is not a person, throwing into question charges against hundreds of thousands in the U.S. accused of copyright violations, child porn, hacking and other online crimes.

You have to admit, the Boy Scouts of America do try to keep up with the times. Not energetically. Not consistently, even, but local leaders and (to a lesser extent) even the national governing body does try to push forward a bit.

A week or so ago the founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs said Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft in security.

Yes, it's sexist to be surprised, or even to be delighted, that the Anonymous apparatchik that cracked the odious HBGary Federal,stole its email, reve

Yes, it's sexist to be surprised, or even to be delighted, that the Anonymous apparatchik that cracked the odious HBGary Federal,stole its email, reve

Yes, it's sexist to be surprised, or even to be delighted, that the Anonymous apparatchik that cracked the odious HBGary Federal,stole its email, reve