Archive for August 2014
August 1, 2014
· Florida Friday: Casselberry Walmart piles up the arrests (Video)
· Florida Friday Part 2: Woman sentenced for having sex in Sumter County pavilion (Video, Poll)
· Florida Friday: Hammerhead shark gets up close and personal in Florida (Video, Pics)
· Google to scrap its two barges
· Facebook being sued over Privacy violations
· Airline crew attacked with prosthetic leg
August 2, 2014
· Florida photobomber gets a wedding day beating
· Shocking end to Dallas police chase (Video)
· Random Photo: Cow Selfie FTW!
· Internet shows you can't miss
· Facebook outage results in calls to 911
August 3, 2014
· Facebook, LOL (7 Photos)
· Schoolboy drains pond to recover smartphone
· Nasa tests Microwave thruster
August 4, 2014
· Random Photo: Best gaming mouse
· Even the mafia likes Facebook
· Poweliks: Rare malware with no file exploits Microsoft Word vulnerability
· G-Mail detects child porn, arrest is made
· Police perturbed by drone flyer (Video)
· TouchPico: Turn Any Surface Into A (HUGE) Touch Screen
· Comcast offers 6 months free internet
· R.I.P: James Brady, Ex-White House Press Secretary dead at 73
August 5, 2014
· Here's 101 useful websites with easy to remember names
· KettleCharge uses boiled water to charge USB Devices (Video)
· Russian fisherman saved from bear by Justin Bieber
· Photo Bombs! (5 Photos)
· Battery-free Wi-Fi technology?
· Pre-order the Navdy (A Heads Up Display device)
August 6, 2014
· New US government leaker brought to light (Video)
· Random Photo: Plastic surgery fail?
· he dromedaries fight back (Video)
· Justin.tv shuts down
· Active duty cyberwarriors out done by civvys
· Man arrested for stuffing Family Dollar smoked sausage in pants (Mugshot)
August 7, 2014
· CryptoLocker decrypted
· Former Apple employee Sam Sung auctions business card (Video)
· Maine mother busted for drunk driving and speeding twice in two weeks (Mugshot)
· New teacher gets detention for showing up drunk and pantsless (Mugshot)
August 8, 2014
· Likes-for-content banned by Facebook
· Yahoo! and Google team up to provide secure email
· Random Photo: The ex-girlfriend text
· Florida Friday: Credit card thief happily poses for picture
· Mini-terrorist breaches White House perimeter (Mugshot)
· Space gas can be deadly (Video)
· (Update) Court of Vienna rejects Facebook suit, refers it to the regional court
· Origami robot (Video)
August 9, 2014
· Texas Proposes Alcohol Sales at Some Gun Shows
· Papers, please: Russia requires ID for public WiFi
· Post Office mail filter taken offline (Video)
· Random Photo: A standing law shall never be broken
· Supermoon plus meteor shower in store for Sunday night
· Pro tip: Don’t pick the massage parlor across the street from where your wife does Yoga (Photos, Mugshots)
· Apparently, he now has a music video
· FCC questions throttling practice
· MajorGeeks Locals: 12-foot cat eating snake captured (Video)
· Amazon's "Big Deal" Returns to the Kindle
August 10, 2014
· NYC DA subpoenas Twitter for ID info in "Brooklyn Bridge flag case"
· Random Photo: Fee to change?
· Hard West on Kickstarter
August 11, 2014
· Game of Hacks: Test your application hacking skills online
· "People of Walmart" source found in Walmart parking lot (Video)
· Random Photo: Southern kid control
August 12, 2014
· R.I.P: Robin Williams Found Dead in Possible Suicide
· Civilians seize control of satellite from within abandoned McDonald's
· Quick fix to get Firefox back up and running
· 2 simple rules to avoid email scams
· Ankle monitor sends Florida woman back to jail (Mugshot)
· California mandates a "Kill Switch"
· Westboro Baptist Church hates geeks, especially that devil Zuckerberg
August 13, 2014
· Love triangle murderer asked Siri where to hide body (Mugshot)
· ABC: Always Be Classy
· Twisted Sister: Fan-Filmed Footage Of HEAVY MONTREAL Performance (Video)
· In honor of shark week....
· Random Photo: Boston wrong
· Random Photo: Googled CN Tower - Wasn't Diappointed
· Snowden reveals secret NSA cyberwarfare program
August 14, 2014
· Internet just hit the 512K route limit
· Random Photo: Switzerland launches virus warning
· Pilot single-handedly lands plane after arm falls off during landing approach (Video)
· Mineoama and the $500K scamorama
· California hotel hires Robot butler
· 7 far-out technologies that are closer than you think
· The lowdown on passwords
August 15, 2014
· Judgment day is upon us: TMZ gets exclusive look at new Apple iPhone 6
· Harvard is ground zero for the programmable thousand-robot swarm (Video)
· Random Photo: Crafting some computer mayhem
· 77K Robin Williams fans sign Legend of Zelda petition (Video)
· iMessage Spam Pushing Fake Designer Sites
· Superfast broadband is possible over copper
August 16, 2014
· Random Photo: The voices axed me
· Taser added to the Ice bucket Challenge (Videos)
· Looking for a tech job? Head to Texas
August 17, 2014
· Protesters break into and loot Ebola care center
· Four predictions about how brain stimulation will make us smarter
August 18, 2014
· Ferguson riot tweet fail
· Anker Quad-Port Wall Charger handles four devices and fits in your pocket
· Photo shows Lightning cable with reversible USB connector
· Chinese Hackers Stole Info on 4.5 Million U.S. Hospital Patients
· Chinese hacker nailed in theft from Boeing
· Mom creates "Ignore no more" app
August 19, 2014
· Ice Bucket Challenge for the not so famous (Video)
· In a perfect world, real friends help bury the body - This one wasn't perfect
· Georgia woman high on synthetic pot steals, crashes police cruiser (Video plus winning mugshot)
· Man picks interesting t-shirt for jail mugshot (Mugshot)
· Random Photo: Shock and ow!
· US Nuclear Regulatory Commission hacked 3 times in 3 years
· Man arrested, strip-searched after photographing NYPD wins $125,000
· Delaware becomes first state to give heirs broad digital assets access
· Roku’s First Streaming-Video TVs Ready to Hit U.S. Market
· Apple seeds fourth beta of OS X 10.9.5 to developers
August 20, 2014
· Satirical posts to be flagged by Facebook
· Stoner Arrested in Orange County Drug Bust
· Man with huge sword taken down by citizen and jailed (Video)
· Random Photo: Missing droids have been found
· US Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC) has been hacked three times
· Insane motorcycle crash (Video)
August 21, 2014
· Google asked to remove 1 million pirate links per day
· UPS hacked
· Sprint dumps "Framily" plan
· T-Mobile recruiting new members with free unlimited data plan at no additional charge
August 22, 2014
· Samsung's deception will net US government $2.3 Million
· Florida Friday: Jacksonville, Florida wins worst news reporting of the week
· Florida Friday: Finally! The odds of bumping into a moron in Florida revealed! (Video)
· Florida Friday: Drunk, speeding and dragging a tree is no way to go through life son
· Florida Friday: Man arrested for prowling tried to fight a fire hydrant
· Small heads, safe ears: The best headphones for kids @ Macworld
· Fast & Furios 6 Pirate Sentenced to 33 months prison
· Jim McMahon from MajorGeeks does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Video)
· Traffic lights hackable
August 23, 2014
· Joey Belladonna from the Grammy nominated Anthrax steps up for the ALS ice bucket challenge (Video)
· Keeping your network secure
· Backoff malware captures credit card data
· Apple announces battery replacement program for the iPhone 5
· Wine 1.7.25 released
· Apple iOS malware gets onto 75,000 iPhones, steals ad clicks
August 24, 2014
· Random Photos: Icy humor (4 Photos)
· SpaceX rocket explodes during launch in Texas (Video)
· DeLorean to reduce lag in online gaming
· It's a sign (7 Photos)
· Woman feeds daughter tapeworms
August 25, 2014
· Mozilla is launching its first Firefox OS smartphone in India this week
· A video first look at Apple’s new iPhone charger and fully reversible Lightning cable
· The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far)
· New breed of super-stealthy ATM skimmer uncovered
· Sony hit with DDoS by self-proclaimed ISIS sympathizers
· Cop versus an Indian hood (Video)
· CNN gets pranked during California quake coverage (Video)
August 26, 2014
· Sour neighbor pushes shutdown of 12 year old's illegal business (Video)
· Apple adds Showtime Anytime, iTunes Festival channels to AppleTV
· California enacts Kill Switch legislation
August 27, 2014
· Tulsa's Army National Guard Base Accidentally Covered In Foam (Video)
· You're Doing it Wrong (5 Photos)
· LaCie unveils 48TB Thunderbolt 2 drive
· You’ll be able to get your hands on iPhone 6 ‘between 16-19 September’
· If you're a Time Warner customer you might not see this story
· ISIS looks to rebrand - not the terrorists
· Random Photo: Time Warner Cable (3 Photos)
· Apple expected to unveil 'iWatch' alongside 'iPhone 6' at Sept. 9 event
· Need a condom for your USB device?
· A users guide to becoming a troll
August 28, 2014
· Cybersecurity official uses Tor but still gets caught with child porn
· Dangerous prank brings SWAT team down on gamer
· Otterbox, Mophie, and Duracell pack extra features into iPhone battery cases @ Macworld (Video)
August 29, 2014
· Florida Friday: Daytona police chief stopped with gun in bag at Orlando airport blames 'stupid oversight'
· Florida Friday: If Shakieria want's some nookie you had better run (Mugshot)
· Florida Friday: Man under arrest for driving a lawn mower while intoxicated (Mugshot)
· Florida Friday: Texas man who threw chair, beer bottles from balcony was found naked with bag of cocaine: cops (Video)
· Apple not replacing all batteries on iPhone 5 defective list
· CryptoWall held over half a million computers hostage, encrypted 5 billion files
· CryptoWall replaces shut down CryptoLocker
· Dairy Queen hacked - at least 8,000 credit card numbers stolen and for sale
August 30, 2014
· Google blames faulty search tools for delay in subpoenaed records
· Wild man accused of exposing his junk (Mugshot)
· HIV case has group wanting to hit the pause button on new porn
· |t's a sign (7 Photos) @ Pedal To The Metal
· Anatomy of a Hackers brain
August 31, 2014
· 'Les Miz' flash mob brings musical theater to Orlando mall (Video)
· Speed bumps FTW @ Pedal To The Metal
· Random Photo: Why online reviews suck
· Random Photo: The New York State Fair sets an all time attendance record - I go for my own record