Cyberwar - The U.S. Studies the New Art of Cyberwar - Series - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:47 PM EST (The New York Times)

Earlier this month, Pentagon leaders participated in a cyberwar simulation to see how they would respond to an initial attack. It did not go well. In the simulation, authorities were unable to tell where the attack truly came from.

technology, espionage, war, internet, crime, computers

1Password 3.0 goes public beta with Snow Leopard support - Ars Technica

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:57 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Brand new public Beta of 1Password 3.0 offers Snow Leopard users a way to manage passwords for different products that require one.

technology, security, macintosh, macosx, organizing

Google's new Social Search surprisingly useful - Ars Technica

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:38 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Google has unleashed a new type of web search: Social Search. The new service is available at Google Labs. It lets you search the web for writings by your contacts, assuming both you and they have Google accounts.

google, technology, social, searching, web

Microsoft posts 140-page Windows 7 Product Guide - Ars Technica

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:32 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Microsoft publishes 140-pages Windows 7 Product Guide and puts it on their web site for downloading. Users and IT professionals can download it in PDF format, or in Microsoft's proprietary XPS format.

technology, microsoft, documentation, win7, mswin

MySQL gets cloudy with Amazon's new database service - Ars Technica

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:26 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Amazon has offered a new SQL database service for cloud computing. It is based on Sun's open source MySQL database. Python programmers have already figured out how to make it work with the Django web/database application programming framework.

technology, amazon, database, sql