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Among the art projects and games at the Last HOPE were two young hackers who are developing an encrypted Bit Torrent program.

The researcher whose speculation led to an early disclosure of information about a critical flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet's traffic cop, wasn't the first to come close to the truth, said the security expert who found the bug and organized a massive patching effort.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.26 of the Linux kernel after a lengthy three-month development stretch since the 2.6.25 release involving nine release candidates.

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform.

More than 135 Linux kernel developers have signed a document in protest of vendors that create closed-source code modules for the kernel, calling the practice "harmful and undesirable."

Proving that performance isn't everything, the latest Top500 list of supercomputers for the first time also measures energy efficiency.

The Gpcode.ak virus, which encrypts files on the victim's desktop and demands a ransom to decrypt them, uses encryption that so far has proven too strong to crack. But Kaspersky Lab, which first identified Gpcode.ak earlier this month, says there is a way for most victims to at least recover their files.

Ruby on Rails 2.1, a planned upgrade to the popular open-source Web framework, could be released as soon as this weekend, the creator of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, said on Tuesday.

Engineers and technicians at IBM are assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer - doubling the speed of the today's fastest machine.

Web 2.0 hype meets reality this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and a variety of tech executives deliver keynotes.

Coghead Tuesday rolled out a hosted service that can be sued by developers to sell applications created using the company's "do it yourself" Web application development technology.