Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator (Adam Satariano/Bloomberg)

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project.  —  Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …


CORRECTED – UPDATE 1-Attacks on credit card sites a grass-roots effort – Reuters

Denial of service attacks typically use botnets, or armies of computers that have been enslaved by criminal … Sean-Paul Correll, a researcher with anti-virus firm PandaLabs who has been monitoring the activities of AnonOps, said the group had thousands …


Pentagon Official Reveals Computer Security Breach… As Part Of Effort To Get More … – Tech Dirt

You may have seen the various stories making the rounds about how some malicious trojan originally on an unsecured USB key was put into a military laptop in 2008, and then propagated around the military …


Siemens Halts Computer Virus as Threat Spurs Effort Against Attacks – All Things Digital

Siemens AG (SI) said a computer virus designed to attack the industrial control systems it makes to help monitor power grids and other key infrastructure has been largely suppressed, but the threat has stepped …


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Definitions could shackle free press – Statesman Journal

Seems a simple question, really. But try to put the answer to paper or computer screen, and more pointedly, try to write that definition into law, and suddenly the effort gets more complicated — as do the First Amendment implications for a free …


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Can law ‘define’ a journalist? – Hattiesburg American

WHO IS A journalist? Seems a simple question, really. But try to write that definition into law, and suddenly the effort gets more complicated – as do the First Amendment implications for a free press


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Definitions could shackle free press – Coshocton Tribune

Seems a simple question, really.