I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate that holiday. (If not, well, I hope you at least got a chance to spend time with your family and/or friends.) But with the holiday over, it's time for me to get cracking again, so here we go!

From the "Typhoid Mary" department, we have a report that TSA agents aren't changing their gloves ( Read more... )

Andrea Phillips is a pretty cool person. She used to work for a company called Mind Candy, helping them run an alternate reality game called Perplex City - a game about a world not unlike our own, but where knowledge, wisdom, and (for lack of a better term) brains were valued more highly than physical prowess ( Read more... )

According to the Internet Web Help blog, Google is in the process of addressing the . . . concerns raised by Fugitivus and others who have found Google Buzz to be an annoyance (or, in the case of Fugitivus - and others in similarly precarious situations - a clear and present danger).

Unfortunately, Google's response has been . . . lackadaiscal, to ( Read more... )

That's what DARPA's learned, as evidenced by their hiring of Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, who used to run the L0pht hacker space during the '90s.

I'd say this is a smart move by DARPA, especially since Mudge will be working as a program manager for DARPA's cybersecurity division.

I just hope it works out.