A modest security warning about a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has quickly grown into something much larger thanks to the work of a hacker.

Rich Gibson of the Gigapan project stopped by the Make offices today and showed me some of the cool super high res photos he's got online. The barnacle is mind blowing. Be sure to view the full image at GigaPan.org This barnacle Nano Gigapan is really cool. Take your ti...

From Romenesko: "NPR blogger uses all of Tribune CEO's banned words in one sentence" He lent a helping hand to a legendary incarcerated pedestrian lone gunman (the perpetrator who over in a neighboring state, perished in a perfect storm of no brainers and things that we...

nut writes "Everybody's favourite actor, author and starship captain is bringing some new ideas to the world of social networking. Myouterspace.com is, in the captain's own words, '... a Sci Fi Social Network for those with a passion for the arts.' Facebook and Myspace ...

The Leica X1 offers the best image quality for a camera of its size, especially at higher ISO settings, but it's the least versatile shooter in its price range.

The Sony VAIO VPC-F1190X is the fastest laptop in Sony's arsenal, and features a new technology called Transfer Jet.

Motorola's new Android smartphone is well-built and has some great apps, but it feels slow.

The Western Digital Passport Elite (500GB) is a hard drive for people who want simple, one-click syncing and backup.

The Dell Inspiron i1764-7629OBK multimedia laptop is a great choice for multitasking general-purpose users and photo and video editors.

The 3M MPro150 is 3M's top of the line and one of the most capable pico projectors yet.

Meet the gods of yore and kill every last one of them in this stunning PS3 action title.

UserLock lets you establish considerable control over a Windows network without requiring a huge amount of technical knowledge.

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Despite the fact that game console manufacturers still drive studios toward exclusivity for individual titles, so that a popular Xbox 360 game isn't available for PlayStation 3 and vice versa, developers within those studios are insist...

Since the iPad is the new kid on the block, let's imagine it as the hunter. What technology will the iPad kill off?

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday. The investment could help Intel develop better hardware for mobile devices or servers that either a...

Company announces Thursday that it will offer mobile device users inventory checks on local stores, allowing them to see if products are available.

Mozilla Messaging updates the Lanikai build of Thunderbird to beta status. Notably, Thunderbird 3.1 beta 1 shares the same Gecko engine as Firefox 3.6.

Sure, 3D is splashy, flashy and fun — but it will take a back seat to Web services in the HDTV features war.

Minnesota seeks to distinguish itself in the increasingly reality TV-esque race to convince Google to build a high-speed fiber optic network there with a video featuring junior US Senator (and former comedian) Al Franken. It's funny stuff, but also serious business as G...

A Verizon Wireless exec told the Wall Street Journal that it will have a 4G wireless handset on the market within three to six months of launching its 4G LTE network.

MikeChino writes "A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rat...

Visit our new online store, filled with a hand-picked selection of books, toys, games, gadgets and miscellaneous tat that we like. It uses Amazon's platform, which means that we get paid with referral fees cut from their end: the prices to you are the same as usual. We'...

Google apps 'postponed' on China carriers Motorola will soon push Microsoft's Bing search engine onto Android phones in China, after announcing an alliance with the Redmond software giant that will see Bing appear on Androids across the globe.?Web threats: Why conventio...

A survey of consumers and businesses places Big Blue at the top of the list among technology companies in protecting consumer data and privacy.

These IT companies, technologies and ideas are dead or doomed to disappear this year.

Exploit code is now online for the latest zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer, highlighting just how important it is to upgrade off of IE6 finally.

Watch the most disturbing YouTube videos of all time — if you dare.

Now in the Boing Boing Bazaar: chunks of aerogel! $50 buys you a pair of aerogel discs. Silica aerogel, the infamous and ethereal material comprised of up to 99.98% air, can be yours at last. Known for its superinsulating abilities, ultralow density, and its use on the ...

Intel tries to understand real-time social networks through an investment in Betaworks.

The latest data from market research firm comScore shows Apple holding on to a quarter of the US smartphone market, which grew roughly 18 percent over the last six months. That makes the iPhone the number two smartphone in the US, though it still lags well behind ...

CNET Reviews has overhauled its Blu-ray testing for 2010 by adding inline charts, more systematic image quality tests and a detailed spreadsheet for easy comparison.

Sanyo's new eneloop hybrid bicycle recharges while it's being pedaled; Iwatani showed off a fuel cell bike that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell stack.

Long-time Mac users know that you can type diacritical characters--for example, â, é, ì, ü, and ñ--by first typing the diacritical (which usually requires the...

HvitRavn writes "SolarPHP 1.0 stable was released by Paul M. Jones today. SolarPHP is an application framework and library, and is a serious contender alongside Zend Framework, Symphony, and similar frameworks. SolarPHP has in the recent years been the cause of heated d...

Note the conspicuous lack of smut! Frame from a Seattle Post-Intelligencer gallery of Playboy founder hugh Hefner's teenage doodles, sent to his high school sweetheart in the early 1940s. The full collection is for sale at a price well into the 6 figures. Apparently, ra...

The unreleased Alpha-series model, has an interchangable lens and is designed for those who don't want to carry a bulky digital SLR camera.

j00bhaka writes "I am a US citizen attending university in Nova Scotia, Canada. I currently have the Verizon America and Canada plan (also known as the North American plan). My bill is currently around $80-$100 per month. I chose this for a couple reasons. One, I have h...

The adorable little boy in this video, whose name is Calen, is sorting out what it means when two fellas get married to one another. At one point, while face-palming, he says pensively: "I always see husbands and wifes, but this is the very first time I saw husbands and...

Intel's announcement last week that the company is planning two versions of its Atom processor specifically for the NAS market was easy to overlook. After all, there are a few Atom-based NAS options on the market already, and the new single-cor...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Namco, one of video gaming's most iconic brands, today announced a new cross-platform game engine called UniteSDK, which will let gamers play with one another irrespective of the platform they're playing their games on. A user playing a Unite...

Brain scans identify which short film clip volunteers were remembering, which could help researchers better understand memory recording patterns and, ultimately, dementia.

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from...

Jalopnik reports that "James Sikes, the San Diego runaway Toyota Prius driver, filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and now has over $700,000 in debt. According to one anonymous tipster, we're also told he hasn't been making payments on his Prius." So was his story a fake? (via...

If Motorola is pre-loading Bing services onto its Android phones in China, will we suffer the same bloatware on stateside units?

Most Firefox users have upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The stragglers who haven't may have their reasons, but Mozilla is starting to pressure them.

Holga, © Stavro Papadopoulos, from an image gallery curated by Sean Bonner of work by various photographers using toy cameras, over at Magnesium Agency....

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed ...

Universal Wi-Fi could help reduce loading on cellular data networks, reduce the need for more radio spectrum, and extend broadband to more businesses and homes. It needs to become FCC policy.

An anonymous reader writes "Pennsylvania's chief information security officer Robert Maley has been fired for publicly talking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system. He apparently did not get the required approval f...

A data service outage affecting some BlackBerry users nationally this week seems to have left them angry but not deeply concerned about the future of BlackBerry's maker, Research In Motion.