Articles by Richard Adhikari

Twitter announced on Thursday that it can now withhold content from users country by country on demand, while still making that content available to the rest of the world The news sparked widespread anger as critics accused the microblogging service of censorship and warned that the policy might impede popular anti-government movements such as thos...

That invisibility cloak Harry Potter throws around himself to hide in plain sight soon may be fact, rather than fiction. Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have demonstrated one -- sort of The researchers hid an 18 cm cylindrical tube from microwaves by putting it in a shell of plasmonic metamaterial....

Symantec is sounding the alarm for users of its pcAnywhere remote access software following threats from a hacker. In some cases, said the security software maker, they might want to turn off and disable the application entirely The hacker, who goes by the handle "YamaTough," might be a member of the hacker collective Anonymous....

With sales of the iPad 2 and the Amazon Kindle Fire breaking records over the holiday season, it might appear that the tablet market is becoming dominated by two devices, with the iPad at the high end and the Kindle Fire at the low end Consider this: Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook is languishing, and HP's late TouchPad is dead. Windows 8 ...

Google will consolidate about 60 of its privacy policies across its products in March, creating one overarching policy and leaving only about another 10 unchanged for legal and other reasons The company is also changing its terms of service (TOS). It may combine information on Google account holders across all the company's services the account hol...

Peer-to-peer sharing site The Pirate Bay has set up a page hosting digital 3D mockups -- digital 3D files -- for visitors to download and print out on 3D printers ...

Engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have released a bookmarklet called "Don't Be Evil" for the Google Chrome browser A bookmarklet is a bit of code that runs in a Web browser and temporarily enables added functionality. This one adds more social search results to Google's new Search Plus Your World feature....

CyanogenMod, which offers aftermarket firmware for Android mobile devices, is apparently planning to sell apps that have been banned from the official Android Market Koushik Dutta, who writes apps for CyanogenMod, has put up a screenshot of what seems to be the landing page for the app market....

Research In Motion announced a change in management over the weekend, but it got the cold shoulder from Wall Street on Monday RIM's former coCEOs and cochairmen Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie no longer hold those positions. Thorsten Heins is the company's new president and CEO. He was also appointed to RIM's board of directors....

Security vendor McAfee, which is now owned by Intel, is rolling out a patch for three flaws in its Endpoint Protection Software as a Service offering All three flaws are in ActiveX controls. One tricks the control into executing commands supplied by an attacker, the second lets attackers write to files on disk and the third lets attackers execute c...

Researchers led by the University of Vienna's Stefanie Barz have demonstrated the possibility of using quantum computing to unconditionally secure cloud computing ...

Unrest between Israelis and Arabs on the cybersecurity front is escalating, with Israeli hackers having reportedly taken down the websites of the Saudi and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges The Israeli hackers, who call themselves "IDF-Team," paralyzed the Saudi stock exchange (Tadawu) site and caused significant delays to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange...

Amazon.com has launched its DynamoDB fully managed NoSQL database service, targeting businesses that need to deal with large amounts of data The service will use the company's traditional pay-as-you-go model, and Amazon will take care of the administrative side of things, such as hardware provisioning and configuration, replication and partitioning...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) appears to be reeling in the face of growing opposition Internet heavyweights like Wikipedia, Google and Facebook have demonstrated their opposition to the proposed legislation, in some cases protesting by temporarily blocking users from accessing content....

Yahoo cofounder and former CEO Jerry Yang has left the company in the wake of pressure from shareholders and the appointment of a new CEO earlier this month Yang announced his departure from all positions at Yahoo on Tuesday....

Move over, NTFS -- Microsoft has announced a newly engineered file system, ReFS, for Windows Server 8 ReFS, or Resilient File System, builds on NTFS, including many of its features but leaving out others....

Sites like Wikipedia and Google have vowed to take new steps in opposing SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, as the debate over the controversial proposed legislation continues SOPA seeks to give new powers to law enforcement and copyright holders to fight the illicit exchange of copyrighted content online. Critics say the bill would effectively crip...

OK, Greenpeace, arrest me now as an eco-criminal. I must have single-handedly deforested a good tract of the Amazon rain forest over the last few days....

Hackers believed to belong to the pro-Palestinian group "Nightmare" struck at the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Israeli airline El Al on Monday in what appears to be an escalation of cyberbattles between Israelis and pro-Palestinian hackers Three Israeli banks were also attacked....

Thieves have made off with personally identifying data on 24 million customers of online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos Announcing the hack on Sunday, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said that the thieves broke into the company's system through one of its servers in Kentucky....