A glaring technical hiccup caused Google to erroneously brand countless websites as malware distributors for roughly forty minutes on Saturday morning. This system-wide alert stemmed from a simple yet critical human mistake: a single forward slash ("/") was incorrectly added to Google's threat database, expanding its scope to effectively encompass the entire web. While Google swiftly...

A supposed act of revenge against Fannie Mae was thwarted when engineers found a covert, destructive script tucked into a routine Unix file, and the suspect — 35-year-old Rajendrasinh Babubha Makwana — was taken into custody. Makwana, an Indian national working for an Omnitech subcontractor as a Unix engineer at Fannie Mae’s Urbana, Maryland site, was dismissed on October 24...

2001 turned into a record-breaking year for Japanese cinemas, with total ticket sales jumping to about 163.3 million — roughly a 20.6% rise from 2000. Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, distributed by Toho, dominated the market and dethroned Titanic to become Japan’s highest-grossing film, finishing the year near $227 million domestically. Hollywood fare still performed well:...