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How To Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo With Timeline

2:15PM February 7, 2012 | Casey Chan

We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don’t. Doesn’t really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! More »


News

Anonymous Leaks US Marine Corps Massacre Case

6:30AM February 4, 2012 | Sam Biddle

The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous — first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005′s Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn’t think the marine in charge should have walked free. This is their payback. More »


News

Anonymous Records Entire FBI Conference Call

3:15AM February 4, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Usually the FBI is the one doing the wiretapping, but Anonymous has turned the tables on the feds, intercepting an entire phone conversation between US and UK police. The investigation? Anonymous and LulzSec. Irony! More »


Online

Anonymous Smashes Boston Police’s Website

3:00AM February 4, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Anonymous has had a nice breather after last month’s Megaupload blitzkrieg, so it’s apparently time for more vengeance: the Boston Police Department’s site was defaced to hell. More »


Software

Q&A: Only 10 Days Left to Keep Jailbreaking Legal

10:00AM February 1, 2012 | Kyle Wiens - iFixit

In less than two weeks, jailbreaking your phone, your tablet or gaming console could become a crime. If the exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act expires, what you do to your devices will again be covered under copyright law. More »


Mobile

Siri Can Translate Languages For You With A Tweak

4:00AM January 27, 2012 | Casey Chan

Siri is more powerful than Apple lets on, so it’s up to the tweaking, hacking, tinkerish souls of the jailbreak community to unleash her full potential. Like this latest Siri hack, Lingual. It’s a jailbreak-only tweak that turns Siri into a translation device. Just say what you want to Siri, name the language you want to translate it to, and Siri will display it in its translated glory. More »


Mobile

Did The Government Hack Scott Ludlam’s iPhone?

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2:45PM January 25, 2012 | Nick Broughall

Have you ever had your mobile phone battery drain faster than normal while escorting an infamous internet activist around Melbourne? If you answered yes, it turns out you could be getting hacked by the government. More »


Software

Whited00r Looks Like iOS5 But Runs On Apple Legacy Hardware

1:15PM January 19, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Just because that old iPod touch of yours is already obsolete, it doesn’t mean it’s automatically useless — it just needs some sprucing up. Whited00r 5.1 brings iOS 5 looks — and some of its functionality — to Apple devices running iOS 3.1.3. More »


Mobile

Is Getting Siri On Your iPod Touch This Easy?

4:46AM January 19, 2012 | Mario Aguilar

It appears a clever hacker named AppleGordon managed to install Siri on his iPod touch by restoring it from an iPhone 4S backup. Which sounds maybe a little too good to be true? More »


Online

The Ultimate Annoying Email Deflector Shield

10:30AM January 6, 2012 | Brent Rose

Marketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click ‘report spam’ (as if that actually does anything…), but wouldn’t it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether? More »