The Amsterdam Music Hack Day is a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + mobile + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it's music related.

Useful workaround for allow importing iCloud calendars to Google Calendar (avoiding the robots.xml problem)

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Lion’s mail.app animates its windows.

Since November 2010, hundreds of customers have seen their iTunes gift card balances zeroed out by mysterious unwanted purchases

Allows you to hide ticket fields for simplified entry.

While Anonymous plots the destruction of Facebook and Lulzsec remains on the lam, another hacker (or group of hackers) decided to kick it old school by planting malware on a computer system at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The security breach exposed the social security numbers of thousands of students, faculty, and staff, and if that's what the party responsible was after, the numbers could end up on the underground market.

help page for compromised accounts to find out how to fix it quickly

While we don't have confirmation on the exact methods used to breach Apple's server, a common SQL injection attack—recently named the Web's most dangerous security vulnerability in a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security–could very well have been the attack vector used in Anonymous' hack.

RSA Security will replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the hacking attack the company disclosed back in March. The EMC subsidiary issued a letter to customers acknowledging that SecurID failed to protect defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which last month reported a hack attempt.

One of my favorite hacks at last weekend’s Music Hack Day is Tristan’s Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect

Nearly four years ago, I wrote an essay called The Little Coder’s Predicament. It’s not too unusual. Lots of others like it have been written. The point is: programming just isn’t available to people like it was with the Commodore 64. I also outlined my requirements for a new cross-platform programming environment for beginners.

The essay was widely linked on Slashdot, Reddit, Lambda, etc. I got lots of mail from people who both agreed and disagreed. Great. Nice. Good people all of them! And yet, nothing has changed. Not really!

OpenMeta is an OS X standard for adding tags, ratings, and other metadata to files.

OpenMeta: [Closed] OpenMeta Is a Hack

The Shmoo Group is a non-profit think-tank comprised of security professionals from around the world who donate their free time and energy to information security research and development.

Apple Keyboard Firm Hack Demonstrated