The FBI conducted a raid last night on a data facility operated by Digital One in Reston, VA. They seized a number of servers, which then caused several websites, including those run by the New York published Curbed Network, to go offline. The reason for this raid is unknown but there are rumors that this is related to hacktivists LulzSec. ...

LulzSec, the notorious hacker group that's been on a rampage,just announced that it's disbanding.

This follows 50 days chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks.
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Telstra Corporation Ltd has confirmed it has reached agreement with the federal government to progressively disconnect its copper network and participate in the roll out of the national broadband network (NBN).
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Just three months after the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 5 for the desktop and Android devices.

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That’s a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development cycle.
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Apple's iTunes Store is a fantastic success, with billions of songs and apps sold and, as Steve Jobs said in March, more than 200 million registered accounts.


What Jobs and Apple don't like to see publicized is the fact that hundreds, perhaps thousands of iTunes accounts have been getting hacked for the better part of a year — and that Apple doesn't seem to be able to stop it.
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ICANN approves dot-everything

The number of top-level internet domains is set to double over the next few years, after ICANN today approved the launch of a program that will let any company apply to run dot-anything.
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