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WikiLeaks plans to release e-mails from security think tank

WikiLeaks announced today it would begin publishing on Monday more than 5 million confidential e-mails obtained from an influential security think tank.

The e-mails, which date from July 2004 to December 2011, "reveal the inner workings" of Strategic Forecasting (Strafor), an Austin, Texas-based firm that provides security analysis to the U.S. Army, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the embattled document-sharing site said in a statement.

"The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques, and psychological methods," the organization said.

The trove also purportedly contains more than 4,000 e-mails mentioning WikiLeaks … Read more

Supposed iPad 3 display goes under the microscope again

The display that may or may not belong to Apple's next iPad has been given a more thorough once-over.

MacRumors, which last week posted photos--including microscope-enlarged shots--of a panel it claimed to belong to an upcoming iPad, has run a follow-up today with that same panel. The difference this time is that the display has been handed over to iFixit, the site that's perhaps best known for posting detailed tear downs of gadgets and identifying where the individual components come from.

The site ran the panel under a USB microscope yet again, which resulted in a considerably … Read more

The least sexy iPad 3 part emerges...maybe

The last few weeks have provided a delightful trickle of metal backings, allegedly belonging to an iPad that Apple has not yet announced or released.

Continuing on that trend, today we get a new look at the device from the other side: the glass front.

As picked up by MacRumors, Apple.pro--the same site that posted images of that neato iPod Nano with a built-in camera--has a shot of the iPad 3's front glass, or so it claims.

There's not a whole lot to look at here (see right) besides what Apple.pro notes to be a … Read more

Is this the iPad 3's Retina Display?

Pictures of purported parts of upcoming iPads, iPhones, iPods, and iAnythings are the norm, but perhaps not quite as interesting as this latest one.

MacRumors today posts what it says is the screen that will be in the next iPad. That display is not attached to an actual iPad 3 unit, but instead sits atop a table with a ruler on top to show its scale, which the outlet says is the same 9.7 inches as the one on the iPad 1 and 2.

The big difference of course, is actually a small one--the pixels. Putting the display under … Read more

Mozilla contemplates nuking McAfee

The SiteAdvisor add-on for Firefox evaluates search results to let you know how safe a site is to visit before you go there, but one Mozilla engineer says that it drags down Firefox and causes huge memory leaks.

(Update: McAfee announced a fix for later next week, and Mozilla acknowledged it. See below.)

It's just the kind of problem that Mozilla doesn't want to be dealing with as it finds itself knee-deep in an ambitious development plan and surrounded by ever-tougher competition.

Mozilla engineer Nicholas Nethercote wrote a blog post early today in which he recommended that Firefox … Read more

Will we see a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 at MWC?

It's so hard to keep secrets on the Internet--just ask Samsung, which has been having a hard time keeping the (allegedly) upcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 under wraps today.

This morning, The Verge first noticed that an invite to a Samsung developer event at this month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona mentioned that the "Galaxy Note 10.1" will be exhibited in Spain this month, along with the "S Pen SDK." That's the development kit for the stylus that also accompanies the original Galaxy Note (a smartphone with a 5.3-inch screen that goes on sale for AT&T Sunday) .… Read more

Apple HDTV to cost $1,499?

Best Buy is apparently including the widely rumored Apple HDTV in its latest survey gauging customer interest in potential new products.

Among the more interesting leaks are a $1,499 retail price for a 42-inch model and an integrated iSight camera. The latter is purportedly used for Skype, though the Cupertino, Calif.-based company currently offers a competing solution, FaceTime.

While Apple followers might use this mix-up to question the report's credibility, many of the product descriptions such as iCloud and iOS remote app support fall in line with earlier rumors. Is this an indication of an impending launch for the elusive Apple display?

(Source: Crave Asia via The Verge) … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1579: Facebook goes public: The Winners and Losers (Podcast)

The Buzz crew talks about Facebook's historic IPO, and the challenges the company will face moving forward. Zynga is smiling, and so is the invite-only Pinterest. We've figured it out, and it's the new social network for girls or metrosexuals. "Into it, Not Into it" brings us vacuum-sealed couples, and that's all you need to know.

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WikiLeaks buying boat to move servers offshore?

Well, this is something you don't hear every day.

WikiLeaks investors are currently working on completing a deal to buy a boat that would house the controversial site's servers in international waters, Fox News is reporting today, citing sources. By moving the servers offshore, WikiLeaks, which currently has servers in Sweden and Iceland, among other countries, believes that it will be able to evade U.S. law enforcement and save its founder Julian Assange from prosecution.

According to Fox News, one of its sources "within the hacker community" said that by moving the servers offshore, the … Read more