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• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.

  By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06

  Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Game platforms, games, gaming, hackers, Microsoft, Xbox

• Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

  Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day.

  By Dan Tynan | 16 March, 2010 04:01

  Tags: Google, hackers, terrorism, wall street

• Are Hollywood hackers bogus or bright?

  Quick: What's a hacker? A pimply faced teenager in a dark bedroom trying to start World War Three, or a thirty-something professional with mad computer skills?

  By Robert McMillan | 25 February, 2010 14:08

  Tags: hackers, movies

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  How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?

  It seems like a question ripped from the back of a cheap sci-fi novel: What happens when the robots are turned against us?

  By Robert McMillan | 08 October, 2009 18:54

  Tags: hackers, robots, security

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  Steganography meets VoIP in hacker world

  Researchers and hackers are developing tools to execute a new data-leak threat: sneaking proprietary information out of networks by hiding it within VoIP traffic.

  By Tim Greene | 14 September, 2009 07:08

  Tags: hackers, steganography, VoIP