Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following "persistent disruptive editing".

An entry on the moon landing conspiracy theories was changed to say they were "promoted by the Cuban government".

Another entry, on the Ukrainian politician Nataliya Vitrenko, was edited to claim that she was a "Russian puppet".

The biography of former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was revised, describing him as an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies".

As Oracle Linux 7 is based on RHEL 7, it inherits many of the same new features, though Oracle is not simply cloning RHEL and putting the company's name on it.

Full compiled versions of Oracle Linux 7 are available to anyone to use as they please and do not require that organizations pay Oracle anything to use, he said.

An apparent flaw that lets users add any amount of money onto already processed PayPal transactions is a feature, not a bug, according to the payments giant.

"This proof of concept transfers only one Euro more than the confirmed amount, but I also tried with 200 Euros and it works just the same."

The company did not say if it plans to cap the rate or otherwise reduce the potential impact of the fraud.

A few weeks ago, an anonymous internet user was able to acquire and subsequently extract a website blacklist used by Germany's Federal Department of Media Harmful to Young Children (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien [BPjM]).

With its secret list exposed, the German government has gone after Neocities in a belated attempt to keep its no-longer-secret list secret. Neocities has complied, but not without protest.

The ultimate stupidity of this debacle is the fact that the German government thinks it can undo what's been done. By acting in this fashion, it's only drawn more attention to the list it wants to remain a secret. Worse, it's drawn more attention to the blog post highlighting the many failures of the list itself.

Steve Jobs was quoted that he wanted to" Make a dent in the Universe", and now,everyone (other than Amiga users) wants to change the history books and erase Commodore and the Amiga from history but, there actually was one Amiga that truly changed the world.

TV shows like "Home Improvement" to the Pilot of Babylon 5, to Seaques DSV took full advantage not only of the A2000 with a Video Toaster, but of the 3D animation software that came with the VT called "Light Wave". LightWave also made movies like "Jurasic Park" Possible, because without test animations for it, it would have ended up a "stop motion" dinosaurs (it was originally planed as stop motion and miniatures like the old harryhausen movies).

NASA chose the Amiga over the Apple, because they could make and developed their own custom hardware. When they asked Commodore for documentation, Commodore sent them palettes full of books, schematics and software. In Fact, Some Amiga's were being still used at NASA up until 2003.

Back in March of last year, we were somewhat disturbed by UPS agreeing to forfeit $40 million to the US government for shipping drugs from "illegal internet pharmacies." Not that such drugs or pharmacies should be legal (that's a whole different discussion), but it's insane to pin the blame for the shipments on the shipping company, whose sole job is to get packages from point A to point B.

FedEx's job is to deliver packages, not examine everything inside those packages to make sure they're legal.

Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site and this list continues to expand.

The entertainment industries have characterized these blockades as a major victory and claim they’re an efficient tool to deter piracy.

At least 13,000 Chicago motorists have been cited with undeserved tickets thanks to malfunctioning red-light cameras, according to a 10-month investigation published Friday by the Chicago Tribune. The report found that the $100 fines were a result of "faulty equipment, human tinkering or both."

"But they said that doesn't mean the drivers weren't breaking the law, and they defended the red light camera program overall as a safety success story."

In an unclassified but restricted report obtained by the Guardian under a public records request, the FBI predicts that autonomous cars “will have a high impact on transforming what both law enforcement and its adversaries can operationally do with a car.”

One nightmare scenario could be suspects shooting at pursuers from getaway cars that are driving themselves.

This presumably reflects fears that criminals might override safety features to ignore traffic lights and speed limits, or that terrorists might program explosive-packed cars to become self-driving bombs.

Red Hat today announced the Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2 storage platform, the first Ceph Enterprise release since Red Hat acquired Inktank.

Among the major new features in Ceph Enterprise 1.2 are erasure-coding and cache-tiering capabilities. Erasure coding is a technology that provides forward error correction for storage, giving users a higher degree of storage stability and resilience.