Are you highly opinionated? Do you wish people would pay you money to listen to your opinions? You're in luck! All of the following websites will pay you (in some way) for your opinion on various survey topics ( Read more... )

Security researchers have announced the discovery of a zero-day Java exploit in the wild. It allows attackers to force a computer to download and run pretty much anything - a keylogger, a trojan, or whatever malfeasance they want to push onto your computer ( Read more... )

Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, recently spoke to Harvard University's graduating class of business students. In her speech, she urged them to work for fast-growing companies, communicate honestly and address inequality in the workplace. At the end of the speech, she said, "We're public now, so could you please click on an ( Read more... )

Bethesda has just released the classic Wolfenstein 3D (the game that helped popularize the first-person shooter genre as well as starting iD Software on its path to becoming a household name in the 1990s) to play for free on the web, to mark the 20th anniversary of its release. Have fun ( Read more... )

Total advertising revenue of the U.S. newspaper industry in 2011: $23,900,000,000.
Of Google: $36,500,000,000.
(from May 2012 Harper's Index)

"Hacktivist Collective" Anonymous has shut down over 40 underground ("DarkNet") websites dealing in child pornography, and "outed" a list of the account details of 1589 members ( Read more... )

News today from Symantec that members of "hacktivist" group Anonymous may have themselves been hacked, exposing them to the risk of revealing e-mail logins or even Internet banking credentials.

It seems that some clever monkey has modified the group's PasteBin guide (which members use to download and install their "Slowloris" denial-of-service ( Read more... )

Chris Dodd, former US senator and now CEO of the Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) has perhaps been a little too forthright:
“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake," Dodd told Fox News. "Don’t ask me to write a ( Read more... )

There's a new message making the rounds on Facebook, offering to change the blue interface to black, red, or even pink. One problem - it's a scam. Sophos has a pretty good write-up here, and ZoneAlarm has an infographic about Facebook scams in general ( Read more... )

Here are links to over 400 free online courses (video lectures, etc.) from universities such as Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and UC Berkeley. You obviously won't get credit for them unless you pay tuition to the schools, but there are still some very interesting courses listed, in the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, and even Engineering. The site ( Read more... )