4chan Down Due to DDoS, Who’s Responsible?
According to 4chan’s status blog, they are down due to a DDoS attack. Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.—an exclusive club! If you recall, a group calling themselves Anonymous launched similar attacks against those who refused to work with Wikileaks. Sites included Paypal, MasterCard, [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 11-19-2010
OnLive Cloud Gaming System Coming to Your TV Remember Web TV? Yeah, me neither, but founder Steve Perlman has moved on to bigger and better things. His startup OnLive Inc. has an online game service that will be available for your TV for the holidays. OnLive will be selling a tiny device called a “micro-console” [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-24-2010
The Facebook Phone TechCrunch reported this week that Facebook is building a phone. Facebook immediately shot back that the story was “not accurate” and that “Facebook is not building a phone.” The situation buzzed for days and Zuckerberg eventually interviewed with TC to clear the air. The Facebook CEO was very adamant that they are [...]
Read MoreIndependence Day Mayhem: YouTube and iTunes Hacked
While everyone else was enjoying their Fourth of July weekend, barbecuing, going to the beach, and watching the fireworks, a few dubious hooligans were causing trouble. Reports came in that both YouTube and the iTunes app store were victims of holiday hacking. YouTube fell prey to enterprising members of 4chan, the group best known for [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-28-09
Looks like Microsoft made a major error in judgement when they removed the head of a black man on a Polish marketing site and replaced it with a white guy’s. Not only that, but they didn’t even bother to Photoshop the hands to match. At first, I thought this was really racist of them, but it looks like there really aren’t that many black people in that region and they were just trying to match the marketing with the local demographic. Still, how sloppy and lazy of them to simply Photoshop the image. Now, TechCrunch has an excuse to kick off a meme.
Read MoreTech Week in Review – 7/10/09
Google Apps Finally Out of Beta Google has probably been the longest running joke regarding apps being in beta forever, but budding geek comedians will now have to find someone else to pick on because Google has dropped the beta label from it’s Google Apps set of applications. These include Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and [...]
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