After 7 days of speculation-ridden downtime, Sony has finally announced that the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage was due to a massive hack that exposed the names, birthdays, email addresses, passwords, security questions, and maybe credit card details, of all PSN users.
At first, the most likely explanation for the PSN's downtime was a continuation of Anonymous's DDoS reprisal for Sony's persecution of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker, George Hotz (geohot).
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Google has released version 11 of its browser. The update brings hundreds of bug fixes as well as many features that have been available on the Chrome beta and dev channels to users interested in using Chrome's latest builds (plus, a new logo!).
Chrome 11 also addresses 25 security vulnerabilities in the WebKit-based browser (a record for the company): 16 rated as High, six rated as Medium, and three rated as Low.
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Social-bookmarking service Delicious has been purchased by AVOS, the company started by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Yahoo said in a statement that it will continue to run the Delicious service until about July. User information will then be handed over to AVOS.
The new owners say they'll continue to run the site as it is. On a frequently asked questions page on Delicious, Yahoo says "there may be a time of adjustment as AVOS relaunches Delicious, but the company's intention is to add new features and grow the service overall."
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Windows 8 may be getting a webcam application for taking pictures and filming video. A user who goes by the name of PlainDickhead has posted a YouTube video on the My Digital Life forums showing off the basics of the new utility.
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Oh, you Mac and PC users. You sure don't like each other much.
We set off a firestorm with Friday's CNN.com story about an unscientific survey that found cultural and sociological differences between people who use Macs and those who use PCs.
The survey found, among other things, that Mac loyalists tend to be younger, more liberal, more urban, more design-conscious and more likely to be vegetarians than people who prefer PCs.
Our story has received more than 5,300 comments -- most of them from Mac or PC users who seized on the opportunity to bash each others' brains out verbally.
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Office 365, Microsoft's set of business tools that includes an online-only option, opened up for a public round of beta testing on Tuesday. The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.
In conjunction with the beta release, Windows opened the Office 365 Marketplace, an online store where customers can add apps and services from Microsoft and partner companies to their accounts.
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