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Called “Operation Fox Hunt”, Anonymous recently announced plans on YouTube (video below) to digitally attack the Fox News website on the anniversary of  Guy Fawkes Day. Similar to previous assaults on other Web properties, the planned attack is likely another denial-of-service attack which will make the site unavailable for visitors for an extended period of time on November 5th. Anonymous is also planning to target former Fox News… Read More

On late Sunday, USA Today's official account on Twitter was taken over by the hacking group known as the Script Kiddies. Representatives of USA Today quickly regained control of the account with help from Twitter. While no fake news post was distributed over the USA Today account, the hacking group used the platform of about 170,000 followers to brag about hacks on other prominent accounts and attempted to promote a recently created… Read More

Responsible for other politically themed games, Jason Oda recently self-published a zombie shooter on the Web called Tea Party Zombies Must Die. The game puts the player into the role of a survivor of a zombie apocalypse and arms them with weaponry to take out zombified, heavily stereotypical versions of Tea Party supporters as well as popular Tea Party figures such as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Other political figures that have… Read More

It's safe to say Rupert Murdoch is having a bad month. A couple developers have created free tools to help consumers stay away from websites owned by the Murdoch media empire. A Firefox add-on called MurdochAlert creates a warning when users are loading one of  100+ sites.  For instance, if a user lands on Fox News, an alert bar appears to warn the user of the “potential computer security risks of accessing Murdoch-controlled… Read More

Centered out of Saratoga, California, Roku is announcing the release of the fourth generation of Roku players on July 20. Dubbed the Roku 2, this revision of the hardware brings a smaller form factor to the media streamer as well as a plethora of new content including gaming. Similar to the last round of players, Roku launches with three versions of the Roku 2; the Roku 2 HD ($59.99), the Roku 2 XD ($79.99), and the Roku 2 XS ($99.99). In… Read More

Reports of Barack Obama's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fox News said that on Monday morning its Twitter feed covering political news was hacked, with tweets posted reporting the death of the president. The tweets stated that Obama had been shot in a restaurant in Iowa while on the campaign trail. On its website, Fox News said that “hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been… Read More

Following in the footsteps of Bill & Ted or Marty McFly, Sarah Palin supporters have decided to change the past and they're using Wikipedia as their flux capacitor. Last week the former Alaskan governor made an inaccurate comment about Paul Revere's iconic ride through Boston. According to her, Paul Revere rode and rang his bell, proclaiming to the British that the colonials were ready to fight. However, the accurate version… Read More

Realizing that he could be missing out on a boatload of easy cash, Glenn Beck has jumped on the bandwagon and launched his own social coupon site, which will compete with Groupon, Living Social, Google Offers, and the many other deal sites that seem to be manifesting out of thin air. Owned by Beck's Mercury Digital Labs, Markdown.com will allow Beck to “save our country” by getting his fans to buy chocolates. Here's how… Read More

A recent survey conducted by Public Policy Polling revealed some interesting items about TV viewers yesterday. After studying 632 voters (and accounting for a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percent), PPP found that the trust Americans once felt in Fox News has seriously waned: According to the results, it’s the most distrusted news station among most age groups. According to the study, “a year ago a plurality of Americans said they trusted Fox… Read More

Who's in charge of Wikipedia these days? According to a Fox News source, “No one. It’s chaos. If their recent report is to believed, Wikimedia Foundation President and Wikipedia co-founderJimmy Wales has seen his control of the site dramatically slashed and his rights reduced to the “same capabilities of a low-level administrator. That shocking claim comes in the wake of a pornography purge that began last week on Wikipedia.… Read More

After discovering instances of pornographic material, Fox News has contacted donors of Wikipedia and warned them that there is explicit content on the website.  The FBI has been contacted as well. Since Fox’s report, Wikipedia has begun to purge thousands of images from its website. The report from Fox cited several topics that included pornographic materials, including one search for “nude children”, which led them to pictures of child… Read More

Sometimes the process of applying for (and receiving) a U.S. patent can take years—so long, in fact, that technologies can emerge, bloom, and wither in the time it takes for patent claims to be processed, reviewed, and approved—or rejected. In that vein, software house VoloMedia has been awarded a patent for a “Method for providing episodic media content” that it claims covers the basic technology behind podcasting,… Read More

“Results are displayed with a still image of the video, along with snippets of text that contain the search terms. Yahoo, meanwhile, has ramped up video search efforts of its own in response to Google's move. Still in early beta testing, Google Video has been indexing since December television programming from PBS, Fox News, CSPAN, as well as local San Francisco channels including ABC and NBC. Until licensing is ironed out,… Read More