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Tweaker Bold_Seeker has found one of the largest prime number ever. There are only eleven known primes larger than the 2.78 million-digit counting prime number 90527 * 2^9162167+1. Bold_Seeker has been searching for large prime numbers for a long time via the PSP project on the Mersenne Forum. He was told this week he had [...]

The U.S. government has blocked nine sites because of copyright infringement activities. In addition, the bank deposits and Paypal accounts have been seized. The Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of the U.S. government, has taken 9 websites off the air on suspicion of streaming just-released movies and music. These domains have been blocked: tvshack.net, [...]

In late May, Google started a new service: encrypted search so that users’ search terms can no longer be viewed by providers or the government. https://www.google.com sets a secure connection between the browser and Google’s servers. All the traffic between both is encrypted, so unreadable. The service was primarily for users in countries with Internet [...]

Adobe will release a patch next week to close all dangerous leaks in the Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Through the leak, it’s possible to completely take over the control of computers. Adobe mentions that the leak is actually being used. Flash Player had a similar vulnerability, but that was already fixed on June 10. [...]

Researchers are studying the possibilities to use proteins as a storage medium. A student of the KULeuven, Belgium is involved in this project. It’s all about fluorescent proteins derived from a jellyfish. Researchers from the University of Leuven have found a way to use it for data storage. The special thing about these proteins is [...]

Apple now holds records of the exact place where a person uses his iPhone, iPad or Apple computer. The company changed its terms of use. Users of the Apple iTunes store are required to agree to the updated terms, otherwise they can no longer buy from the store. According to Apple they only gather anonymous [...]

Finally, after a long time of studying and making exams, the 3-month-well-deserved-rest can begin. Summer officially started, my vacation started … this means I’ll be able to dedicate much more time to this blog. From now on I will try to post a new article (or more) every day with the latest technology & computer [...]

Chrome 5 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X has been officially released. That’s very fast, because one month ago it wasn’t even available in Google’s beta channel. Chrome 5 performs much faster than its predecessor and supports JavaScript and HTML 5 applications. This combination makes it a suitable platform for developers to make sophisticated [...]

The Safari browser by Apple has a two-year-old vulnerability and Apple doesn’t want to fix it.  The reason is, according to Apple, that the browser remains user friendly this way. The leak was discovered by security vendor Nitesh Dhanjani back in 2008. He made Apple clear that there are not confirmations for downloads when using [...]

The file sharing website RapidShare is not guilty for copyright infringement, according to a U.S. court. After the company has withstood a complaint by a film distributor in Germany, it now also prevails in the U.S.. The erotic website Perfect 10 had taken legal actions, because its pictures would be offered by  Rapidshare. Perfect 10 [...]