Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.

“I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline ' they don't realize how cruel it is,” said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus…

The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content'just like Google.

No matter which way the ruling goes, this could prove to be an important milestone for the MPAA's fight against BitTorrent sites. The MPAA has a few notches in its bedpost, but those have come from settlements which resulted in shuttered…

iLTs second quarter roundup of sites that use type well.

Good list, but on the aesthetic end, I would have left off thethingswemake. It is well laid out, but the darkened background highlights for some text start and end so abruptly that it feels difficult to quickly scan, in my opinion. If they only…

Ask Pellicano, whose case went to the jury last week, and offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks than anyone else.

Indeed, the F.B.I. decrypted scores of Mr. Pellicano’s recordings after noticing that some of his pass phrases were written into the software’s source code itself — a rookie mistake, cryptology experts say. Several…

From 1 transistor on a chip in the 1950's to over 592,000,000 in the 2000's. Pics show the rapid evolution of scale and complexity in the engines that power computing, communications, and electronic devices in general.

Microelectronic silicon computer “chips” have grown in capability from a single transistor in the 1950s to hundreds of millions of transistors per chip on today’s microprocessor and memory devices. From the first…

Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price.
The breakdown followed a meeting in Seattle on Saturday morning between Microsoft C.E.O. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, and Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and chief executive.

When Microsoft first made its bid, it said Yahoo was an important part of its strategy to take on Google. Its choice to withdraw, after threatening a proxy contest if a friendly deal could not be reached, may prompt its shareholders to doubt its…

Web design-related forums are a place where you interact with other designers, exchange ideas or discuss your first drafts. When you have a problem, you can post the issue, and then receive feedback on possible design or coding solutions from community members. This interaction is a great way to establish contacts and build relationships. Forums ar

Web Design ForumThis forum organizes its topics into visualizing website design and coding websites. There are over 10,000 members. The posts are active, and there are plenty of lengthy tutorials and discussions. They have a well developed…

Google top priority this year is to make money off its YouTube video-sharing site, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a TV interview that sent Google's shares up 4.7 percent.

“It would be possible for Microsoft to integrate some of the properties and essentially eliminate consumer choice, particularly in electronic mail, instant messaging, the things where they have 80 or 90 percent market share, and that's a…

Joel Spolsky flames Microsoft's latest service “Microsoft Live Mesh”

I shouldn't really care. What Microsoft's shareholders want to waste their money building, instead of earning nice dividends from two or three fabulous monopolies, is no business of mine. I'm not a shareholder. It sort of bothers me,…

Lam threw open the door to his room and plugged his SLR into his MacBook Pro, with photos of scoops shots of CES. While he waited for the photos to upload, he logged on to Engadget to keep tabs on his nemesis. And that’s when he saw it.
Photos.
Of the same 150-inch television.
Posted 15 min earlier.

And like a couple of rival hometown newspapers, Engadget and Gizmodo have seen their competition develop into a full-blown feud, complete with charges of malfeasance and sabotage. Engadget rarely links to Gizmodo, and often it's to…

Year on year, Internet visits to Twitter.com are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more than doubled and traffic continues to climb, up 60% in the past month.

Whilst Twitter continues to be a niche website, it also continues to enjoy strong growth. Clickstream data helps us to understand that this growth is both from new users and repeat visitors. This is good news for Twitter and we'll continue to…

flash tutorial

This weekend I was helping a friend with his Flash website.? Now, I don’t consider myself an expert in Actionscript, especially the new AS 3.?? But there are tons of resources/tutorials to help you along the way to create the effects…

Keep your sites off of the search giant’s hit list. Google is one of the Internet’s darlings, universally loved by just about everyone. Everyone, that is, but webmasters who’ve had their domain networks wiped from Google’s results.

At some point, the mysterious workers behind http://eval.google.com are going to visit your site. Here's how to be ready for them.

Social news site Digg has long been the big kahuna of sites where users submit and vote on tech news stories. Though tech content there has dropped dramatically (as we wrote about in this post) and Yahoo Buzz promises audiences that dwarf Digg’s - it’s still fantastic to get a tech story on the front page of Digg.

Spread your love around and check out different social news sites. You might find that you like some of them better than others, or that your personal taste in stories might go over better in one place or another. In all of these sites, the user…