A group of hybrid vehicle owners paraded around the town of Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday hoping to claim the Guinness World Record of longest parade of hybrid vehicles in the world.
According to reports, 208 vehicles participated in the event, now being dubbed the world’s ‘quietest parade ever”, hoping to break the 140-vehicle record held by an event organized in Belgium last year.
What’s more, the 208 vehicles which travelled in a 2.1-mile-long loop around the town only spent about …

Hacker groups and companies and organizations they have hacked have been nominated for awards at the newest Oscars-like awards for the hacking community, the Pwnies.
The Pwnies (pronounced like “ponies”, which comes from tech-speak “pwnd” meaning “owned” or overpowered) seeks to seriously attempt to “acknowledge the people and events that have made the biggest impact on the hacking community over the past year”, a report from Reuters says.
According to the report, hacker groups …

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Saudi Arabia seems to have blocked the Amnesty International Website, reports PCWorld.
Recently, Amnesty International, the human rights organization with its international secretariat in London, had published a report stating that the anticipated anti-terrorism law could be used to suppress the peaceful protests in Saudi Arabia.
Amnesty International confirmed on Monday that its website …

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A British teenager suspected of being the founding member of LulzSec hackers group has been released on bail, reports PCMag. The teenager will have to be present in the court in August.
The Londoner is about 16 years old and uses the online nickname “T-Flow” or “Tflow”.
He was arrested in South London last week after authorities suspected him of violating UK’s Computer Misuse …

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The 58-year-old era of analog TV broadcasting came to an end in Japan after the nation completed the transition to digital transmission last week, reported Bloomberg. Japan is the first Asian nation to have switched television transmission to digital mode. U.S. and Germany are other nations that have switched the television transmission to digital mode.
The plans to entirely shift the …

The Austrian government’s GIS which collects viewing fees from citizens to help fund the country’s state TV has reportedly been hacked by an Anonymous-linked group, a report from The Associated Press says.
According to the report, the GIS said on Monday that it has been hacked and a total of 214,000 data files were taken from their servers.
What is more, the GIS has revealed that 96,000 of those files contained details of financial information like bank accounts of subscribers.
The …

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Mozilla has started a latest project to build a mobile operating system for mobile devices that will run applications on the Web, reports PCWorld. The project has been named as Boot to Gecko (B2G).
“We want to … find the gaps that keep web developers from being able to build apps that are — in every way — the equals of native apps built for the iPhone, Android, and …

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Sony has announced a lean new addition to its digital camera lineup with the introduction of the Cyber-Shot DSC-TX55.
The Cyber-Shot DSC-TX55, the latest addition to Sony’s T-series lineup, features a 16-megapixel sensor and a touch screen made up of a 3.3-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen.
It can reportedly snap 16-megapixel still photos and take 1080i-resolution, …

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Four hackers believed to be connected to the hacker activist group Anonymous have been released by Dutch authorities, a report from The Associated Press says.
According to the report, “national prosecutors” in the Netherlands have revealed that the hackers have been released by authorities.
The report further reveals that the four hackers have acknowledged that they have “infiltrated …