No data was leaked in the attack that was made in protest against increasing threats to civil liberties by impending legislation.

From ZDNet:

This appears to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack with multiple targets. This means Anonymous is simply overloading the servers with more connections than they can handle, bringing the websites down, rather than stealing data. Then again, as we saw with the DDoS attacks against the Vatican, the group is perfectly capable of putting in a backdoor to make life easier when it wants to take the site down a second time.

Rather than the tree-and-branch structure previously suspected, it seems that the brain is made up of ribbons of neuronal fibres that cross paths at right angles.

From TechWeekEurope:

"Getting a high resolution wiring diagram of our brains is a landmark in human neuroanatomy," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D. "This new technology may reveal individual differences in brain connections that could aid diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders."

These dead stars rotate and emit radiation with such regularity that they rival the accuracy of atomic clocks.

From BBC News:

If a spacecraft carried the means to detect the pulses, it could compare their arrival times with those predicted at a reference location. This would enable the craft to determine its position to an accuracy of just five kilometres anywhere in the galaxy.

The camera may be used in the long and complex task of decontaminating the site of the Fukushima disaster.

From The Mainichi Daily News:

The new development makes it possible to easily grasp where radioactive substances spewed from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have accumulated, and is likely to help decontamination work in the affected areas, officials say.

According to Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, criminal hackers are increasingly hard to fend off.

From The Wall Street Journal:

"I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior, because with the status quo, it's an unsustainable model. Unsustainable in that you never get ahead, never become secure, never have a reasonable expectation of privacy or security,'' Mr. Henry said.

The environment in the reactor is such that it could take decades of specialist work to decontaminate it.

From The Washington Post:

The data collected from the probes showed the damage from the disaster was so severe, the plant operator will have to develop special equipment and technology to tolerate the harsh environment and decommission the plant, a process expected to last decades.

The smart tags are similar to the chips found in contactless cards such as the Oyster pass used on London's public transport system.

From Newser:

The "intelligent uniforms" tell parents when their children enter the school building by sending a text message to their cell phones. Parents are also alerted if kids don't show up 20 minutes after classes begin with the following message: "Your child has still not arrived at school."

The debris originated from a Russian Cosmos satellite, but luckily avoided the station in the end.

From CNN:

"The Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station received an 'all clear' to move out of their Soyuz vehicles after a small piece of a Russian Cosmos satellite debris passed by the complex without incident early Saturday," the statement said.

The irradiated water is fast approaching the Hawaiian islands.

From Straight.com:

Last April, Japanese officials claimed that they had halted the release of radioactive radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima.

On December 5, however, the Los Angeles Times revealed that "45 tons of highly radioactive water" had been released from the plant on the previous weekend.

The latest tablet from the company is even harder to open up without causing permanent damage.

From Vice:

Wiens said that if machines in other industries — for example, tractors used by farmers — were to break down over a handful of years and couldn’t be easily repaired, consumers would openly revolt. “In industries where consumers really care about a quality, long-lasting product, there’s no way companies can get away with it,” he said.

They are suing Apple in China and are demanding millions of dollars in compensation.

From Reuters:

The group, the Writers Rights Alliance, petitioned Apple last year to stop electronic distribution of the writers' books and had earlier persuaded Baidu, China's largest search engine, to stop publishing their material on its Baidu Library product.

He will jump from 36 kilometres and possibly become the first human to fall at the speed of sound.

From BBC News:

His Red Bull Stratos team estimates he reached 364mph (586km/h) during the descent, and was in free fall for three minutes and 43 seconds before opening his parachute. From capsule to ground, the entire jump lasted eight minutes and eight seconds.

The discovery of frozen tissue in the Arctic tundra could result in viable genetic material that would be used to impregnate an elephant with a mammoth embryo.

From PhysOrg:

"The first and hardest mission is to restore mammoth cells," another Sooam researcher, Hwang In-Sung, told AFP. His colleagues would join Russian scientists in trying to find well-preserved tissue with an undamaged gene

If the technology is commercialised, it could put an end to having no signal on your mobile phone.

From the University of Rochester:

"Of course, our current technology takes massive amounts of high-tech equipment to communicate a message using neutrinos, so this isn't practical now," said Kevin McFarland, a University of Rochester physics professor who was involved in the experiment. "But the first step toward someday using neutrinos for communication in a practical application is a demonstration using today's technology."

Two members of LulzSec accused of security breaches have been found to have substantial online presences that personally identify them.

From Threatpost:

An investigation by Threatpost found that two of the accused, Darren Martyn (aka "pwnsauce," “raepsauce,” and “networkkitten,”) and Donncha O’Cearbhail, formerly known as Donncha Carroll (aka “Palladium”) sported outsize online footprints and made little effort to hide their affinity for hacking.