| Stratfor apparently targeted again by hackers and With Congress on break, SOPA fight continues |
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E-mail allegedly sent out by the global intelligence outfit early Friday told customers that the company "would like to hear from our loyal client base as to our handling of the recent intrusion by those deranged, sexually deviant criminal hacker terrorist masterminds." The e-mail, which included sexual references, had multiple links.The Austin, Texas-based company responded with a statement from CEO George Friedman acknowledging "false and misleading communications that have circulated within recent days.""This email, and all similar ones, are false and attempt to prey on the privacy concerns of customers and friends," Friedman said. "We strongly discourage you from opening such attachments. [Read the full article] Editor's note: Luis von Ahn (@luisvonahn) is the founder and former CEO of ReCAPTCHA, Inc., and an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. ReCAPTCHA, acquired by Google in 2009, is helping to digitize books, one word at a time, by having millions of people from the Web decipher scanned words. Von Ahn's current project is Duolingo. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on its website.(CNN) -- I want to translate the Web into every major language: every webpage, every video, and, yes, even Justin Bieber's tweets.With its content split up into hundreds of languages -- and with over 50% of it in English -- most of the Web is inaccessible to most people in the world. This problem is pressing, now more than ever, with millions of people from China, Russia, Latin America and other quickly developing regions entering the Web. [Read the full article] (CNN) -- The humble thermostat is getting a 21st-century makeover. And so is the boombox, thanks to a son of the late reggae legend Bob Marley.The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show doesn't start in earnest until Monday, but at a gadget preview event Sunday, some electronics startups seemed determined to give redemption to ordinary appliances, and not just those from children of the Rastafarian movement.In a packed hotel ballroom, companies demonstrated portable televisions, plastic guitars, stoves and solar-powered e-reader cases.For most of their existence, home thermostats have been mere functional accessories. White or beige, they blend into the wall and only get noticed when someone needs to change the temperature.With an elegantly simple dial that turns blue when cooling and orange when heating, the new Nest digital thermostat seeks to change that. [Read the full article] 
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