LulzSec and Anonymous are the most famous hacker organizations around: if you’ve been reading tech news at all recently, you know who both of them are. They bring down sites with distributed denial of service attacks, and they hack in and retrieve sensitive information. They look pretty similar on the surface. But there’s a tendency to paint them with the same brush. For instance,this Geekosystem postrefers to both groups when rattling off a list of their attacks that include Sony, porn sites, Nintendo and Minecraft....

The days of arguing about whether you should have a pair of wireless earbuds are over. The results are in: you need some. Over the past few years, the quality of true wireless earbuds has skyrocketed and you’re spoilt for choice. I mean, just think of the quality of things likeApple’s AirPods Pro,Sony’s WF-1000XM4, andGoogle’s Pixel Buds. These are miraculous bits of technology that, despite theirubiquity, still feel kinda magical. But… we can do more....

Last week, Andrew Dubber – an influential writer about the music industry –announcedthat he was giving away all the content on hisNew Music Strategieswebsite. “I hereby declare that every piece of content written by me for New Music Strategies up to the end of 2010… is totally without copyright restriction,” he wrote. “You can do anything you like with it, and you don’t have to ask. You can sell stuff based on it, copy and paste it into magazines, make new and derivative stuff out of it, translate it, create products – whatever....

Should your startup develop leaders or hire them? A startup’s leadership team needs to balance both the steady hand of experience with an unbiased approach to new ideas, so it should do both. Startup leadership and the dilemma of balance At some point, every startup faces a dilemma of leadership balance: How do you guide a quickly maturing business without either driving it into a ditch of stagnation or a brick wall of rookie mistakes....

Considering the near double digit unemployment rates throughout the US and in the Bay Area, where I live, along with questions about the ability of the US to compete in a global marketplace, continuous learning and retraining at the workplace is more essential than ever before. Leading thinkers have sparked challenges in the media urging the government and United States citizens to find new ways to innovate. Two dramatic quotes illustrating this challenge and new reality are:...