VeriSign revealed to have suffered repeated security breaches in 2010

It took some digging through more than 2,000 pages of SEC documents, but Reuters revealed today that VeriSign was attacked “repeatedly” by hackers in 2010, and that some undisclosed information was stolen from the company. The key danger there is the D…

Nook Simple Touch gets USB host mode support via hack, plays nice with low-power devices (video)

Codemonkeys exhibiting the kindness of strangers? Why, yes, this is such a tale. When XDA Developers member verygreen came across the pleas of one user obsessed with attaching an external USB keyboard to an eReader, he did what any decent hacker would…

NES controller lets you stomp Koopas, save Princess Peach in capacitive fashion (video)

Is your NES controller in another castle? Maybe you’re just pining for your smartphone’s capacitive game controls for some reason. Regardless, here’s a little piece of tech that just might put the fire in your flower: the capacitive touch NES controll…

Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good

First, an apology: Microsoft released details of Windows 8′s tablet hardware requirements back in December, but we were too preoccupied with Christmas and CES to notice. Now that the only thing we’re suffering from is jet-lag, let’s take a quick tour…