Tag: FORUMS

4chan founder Christopher Poole has just launched his latest site, Canvas, to a select group of invitees. Canvas, at its most basic level and much like 4chan, provides users with a forum for discussion. Members post content to the site, others chime in, and the conversation snowballs from there. All user identities remain anonymous, but, unlike 4chan, all content is archived and recorded on ...

Apple is usually pretty good at keeping new products under wraps. [Ed. Note: Except for that whole iPhone 4 thing.] This morning, though, it looks like someone at the company is due for a talking-to, having jumped the gun on Apple's press event scheduled for later today. Overzealous forum moderators at Apple.com started threads for 'iMovie '11,' 'iPhoto '11,' and 'Garage Band '11,' revealing a ...

Share What do you have to do to leave your mark on Major League Baseball's official site? You could hit your local batting cage, weight room, or Mexican pharmacy. Or, you could just flood the site's messageboards with porn, as a group of knuckleheaded knuckleballers recently did. Since July 2009, MLB's message boards have been flooded by dozens of "threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, ...

The cover of the book that is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has "terrorist" written nowhere on it. The clean-cut, boyish face and the soft, timid eyes in the photograph above would seem more at home on the neck of a college classmate or fellow commuter than it would the shoulders of an Al Qaeda operative and attempted airplane bomber. If there is such a thing as a "typical" terrorist (and it's hard ...

What began as a major assault on an underground hacker forum last Wednesday soon became a major embarrassment for Australian police. While authorities may or may not have learned valuable information about the hackers, they've certainly learned a lesson in humility. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, hackers broke into a federal police computer system days after the same police bragged about ...