| Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Site, Threatens Supreme 'Warheads' | | The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the US federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to make a brazen and boisterous declaration of "war" on the U.S. government. The group claims mysterious code-based "warheads", named for each of the Supreme Court Justices, are about to be deployed.
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| It's Official: George Lucas Hands Star Wars to J.J. Abrams | | After an agonizing wait of more than a day to confirm the widespread rumor, Disney and its newest subsidiary Lucasfilm have made it official: J.J. Abrams will direct the still-unnamed Star Wars Episode VII. The news was announced late Friday night — at exactly midnight EST — on StarWars.com. None other than George Lucas was quoted, effectively handing the baton of directing Star Wars to Abrams personally.
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| Google Officially Responds to Safari-Tracking Lawsuit | | Friday, January 25, 2013 11:24 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Last winter, a Stanford researcher discovered Google was bypassing iPhone users’ privacy settings in the mobile Safari browser in order to serve them ads tailored to their browsing history. Even though Google apologized, paid $22.5 million in fines and chalked the whole thing up to a technical error, several people sued Google over the affair, which was consolidated into a class-action lawsuit.
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| Facebook, Twitter, Stop Fighting! | | Friday, January 25, 2013 8:53 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Guys, please. I know you've got serious differences, but you still love us users, right? Right? A Cold War has been brewing between the two major social media services for the better part of a year — and it heated up Friday. That's when Facebook effectively sent Twitter a little passive-agressive note about why it was blocking access to the Facebook Friends list on Twitter's Vine app.
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| The Soviet Fire That Might Have Saved Apollo 1 | | Friday, January 25, 2013 12:31 PM | Discovery News |
| On Jan. 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 was killed when a fire broke out in their pure oxygen-soaked capsule during a routine pre-launch test. The dangers of an oxygen fire should have been obvious to NASA. It was obvious to the Apollo spacecraft’s builder, North American Aviation, who recommended the space agency not run tests with a highly pressurized spacecraft.
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| Twitter Ordered to Identify Anti-Semitic Users | | Friday, January 25, 2013 12:13 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Should Twitter be forced to reveal anti-Semitic and racist users? That's exactly what a court in France is asking the company to do. Several French groups demanded in a recent lawsuit that Twitter identify anonymous users posting anti-Jewish messages they argued broke French law, which prohibits Holocaust denial and hate speech.
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| Google Glass Developer Conference Has Ultra-Strict Rules | | Friday, January 25, 2013 11:55 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Excited to hear about what will happen at next week's first official developer conference for Google Glass? Good luck. Google is requiring attendees to sign a restrictive NDA that bars them from revealing anything about it.
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| Exxon Mobil Passes Apple to Become World's Most Valuable Company | | Friday, January 25, 2013 11:51 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple lost its title as the most valuable company in the world on Friday. Apple's market cap plummeted below $420 billion on Friday after a disappointing earnings report earlier in the week, allowing Exxon Mobil to regain its title as the most valuable company by market cap. Apple ended the day with a market cap of $413 billion, about $5 billion less than Exxon's market cap.
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| Can Skype Eavesdrop on Your Calls? | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:57 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Does Skype let police and authorities spy on users' conversations? That's the question a wide group of advocacy organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as Reporters Without Borders, and many activists and journalists, are asking in an open letter published online.
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| Marissa Mayer's Plan to Make Yahoo Part of Your Daily Mobile Routine | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:20 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| Marissa Mayer wants Yahoo to be a part of your everyday life, and she's pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to achieve it. In a half-hour interview with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker in Davos, Mayer spoke about the need to work Yahoo into people's daily activities — checking the weather and the news, playing games — through mobile, personalization and partnerships.
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| White House Petition Demands Cellphone Unlocking Remain Legal | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:16 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| A petition submitted to the White House demands the Librarian of Congress to rescind his recent decision which removed the unlocking of cellphones from the exceptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Due to the Librarian's decision, the unlocking of cellphones effectively becomes illegal in the U.S. on Jan. 26.
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| Audi to Make Fuel Using Solar Power | | Friday, January 25, 2013 10:06 AM | MIT Technology Review |
| The automaker is using technology from SolarFuel to make renewable methane for natural-gas vehicles.
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| Star Trek and Star Wars Have Been Hooking Up for Years | | Friday, January 25, 2013 7:58 AM | Chris Taylor |
| So J.J. Abrams, director of the rebooted Star Trek series, has officially been tapped by Disney to direct the next movie in the ever-expanding Star Wars saga. And by the tone of the tweets floating around the ether Thursday night, you'd be forgiven for thinking a Protestant had just been elected Pope. Star Trek and Star Wars have some major built-in sectarian differences, which aren't immediately apparent to outsiders.
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