It’s been few days since DiGi’s site was down. Till now, their site is still inaccessible (we tried Streamyx and P1 WiMAX). But apparently their site isn’t really down. If you have an iPhone using DiGi’s SmartPlan, or you’re using DiGi’s Broadband, then you can still access their site. Weird? Yes, DiGi agrees, and says it’s still investigating the cause of this weird issue. Is this related to the recent hacking activities on our Internet?

The New York Times reports that the FBI knocked legit websites offline in its attempt to hunt down LulzSec and any affiliated hackers.

According to the report, the FBI seized web servers during a data center raid conducted early Tuesday morning. Owned by Switzerland-based DigitalOne, the server seizure inadvertently took down websites owned by the New York-based Curbed Network, Instapaper and “tens” more.

“After [the] FBI’s unprofessional ‘work,’ we cannot restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work,” said DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow in a statement to his customers. He thought that the problem was merely a technical glitch with one of his Reston, Virginia-based servers at first until he was informed by a local that it had been removed completely from the data center.

“Our servers happened to be in with some naughty servers,” he said. Ostroumow later added that the FBI agents probably took entire server racks because they mistakenly thought that “one enclosure equals to one server.”

Meanwhile, Operation AntiSec continues on as Anonymous and LulzSec wage war against the world’s governments, banks and major corporations. On Tuesday the Brazilian branch of LulzSec reportedly took down the Brazilian government’s website. Later on LulzSec hinted that it had also penetrated servers of several banks and government institutions.

“Splendid old chap, yes, yes, quite. In other news, we’re loading leak bay #1 with stolen goods. #AntiSec,” the group bragged on Twitter.

As reported earlier, a vigilante band of hackers known as the Web Ninjas revealed its mission to expose the members of LulzSec and see that they were behind bars. They reportedly succeeded in retrieving the hacker handles of LulzSec members, including lesser members like “neuron” and “Redacted,” and also critical members such as “Topiary” and “Sabu.” LulzSec retaliated by “doxing” (or rooting out) the very person who leaked the information to the Web Ninjas.

“This is Marshal Webb, also known as “[redacted]” in the “#pure-elite” IRC logs you no doubt have enjoyed,” the group wrote to the FBI. “He was involved in the hacking of the game “Dues Ex” (sic) and was/is involved in countless other cybercrimes. Also, he tried to snitch on us. Therefore we just did your job for you with great ease. This moron is trying to flee the country in order to avoid serious punishment. Hunt him down… “

Hacking group TeamPoison has also claimed LulzSec blood by acquiring the names, addresses and pictures of the LulzSec team. “No matter how many bots you gather, no matter how much people you lie to, no matter how much pre-made tools you use, you will _NEVER_ represent the real hacking scene, we warned you, we told you we do not make empty threats, we gave u 48hrs to secure your ircs yet u failed to do so.”

Getting a headache from all this hacking talk? You’re not alone. Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski said that the hack on Sony’s PlayStation Network was a bad experience for the entire gaming industry. “It’s just a shame,” he admitted. “It cost [developers] an untold amount of money; I know developers who couldn’t put their betas out there because of it. I mean, it was a major problem. So it’s pretty scary to be a game developer, especially when you talk about there being a connected future.”

SOURCE via Softpedia

Microsoft is keeping up with its tradition in sending Mozilla something sweet each time a new version of Firefox “ships.” Awww, ain’t that sweet! Tuesday Internet browser rival Microsoft sent Mozilla a congratulatory cupcake for shipping Firefox 5. It wasn’t six feet tall with a bikini-clad bimbo inside waiting to burst through the icing. There wasn’t even anything explosive or stinky that would bring the launch party to a screeching halt. Instead it was just a large cupcake sitting in a box, wrapped with a pretty blue ribbon and sporting Internet Explorer’s iconic “e” logo like a big blue eye.

This isn’t the first time Microsoft sent Mozilla a tasty congratulatory treat. The Internet Explorer team sent along an entire cake back in 2008 with the launch of Firefox 3, and then sent another somewhat smaller cake this past March when Mozilla unleashed Firefox 4. Typically the IE team sends its “love” with a comment like “congratulations on shipping,” but seeing how the desserts keep getting smaller with each Firefox release, the IE team was reduced to writing the love note on the actual shipping box this time around.

So what’s the point in sending the sweets if they’re not laced with poison to take the rivals out once and for all? There’s certainly nothing wrong with a little bit of friendly competition – competition is what drives innovation, and innovation brings us things like VoIP calling within a browser, HTML5 video and Farmville. And after all, even if IE and Firefox are competing browsers, Microsoft still wins in the end given that Firefox enables Windows-based consumers – those who don’t like Internet Explorer – to shop for Microsoft products online, watch videos laced with Microsoft ads, and even use Bing to hunt down whatever they choose.

Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 on March 14 and saw up to 27 downloads per second, and over 250 downloads every 10 seconds, reaching a reported 2.3 million downloads in just 24 hours. The release of Firefox 5 was much more successful with 5 million downloads in 24 hours, partially thanks to its support for Windows XP. So, essentially the cupcake is Microsoft’s way of recognizing Mozilla’s success while also reminding the Firefox team that Internet Explorer is still lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike at any moment. Oh, and thanks for the business too, gang.

SOURCE via winrumors

Italian design company Pininfarinia unveiled its Antares solar charging tree at a sustainable mobility show in Rome called MoTechEco. This 108 sqft tree-like structure features a modular design composed of 20 solar panels that are capable of producing 4.6 kilowatts of energy, which is enough to recharge two electric cars for approximately 50 miles each.

With an aesthetically pleasing design and efficient sustainability, the Antares would be a perfect addition to parking lots and gas stations. Not only would it provide a hefty amount of shade for vehicles parked under, it would also charge them as well! In the past year we have seen the rise of interest from automakers as well as consumers in the direction of electric vehicles and it comes as no surprise that companies such as Pininfarinia are developing efficient and stylish charging points for vehicles.

Perhaps in the distant future when the world is rid of its dependence on gasoline, the Antares and similar charging stations will be in place of gas stations. Unless of course, you can power up your car with your fart.

With 30% of all motor vehicles in Barcelona being motorcycles, Japanese automaker Honda has begun testing in Spain for its EV-neo, an entirely electric scooter. The company will be leasing 18 EV-neos to the Barcelona City Council in order to monitor and examine how the vehicles perform in terms of riding distance, charging time and load conditions.

The EV-neo isn’t exactly meant to be a car or motorcycle replacement as it has a range of only 21 miles driving at 18 mph, but it would be a great way to travel locally. The range on the vehicle might not be as lengthy as many would hope, but EV-neo comes with a portable rapid charger that is capable of recharging the batteries to full in only 30 minutes.

Although the scooter has already been leased in Japan in April, the company may be testing to see if the EV-neo has a market elsewhere. No plans on selling the electric scooter over in the U.S. or Europe has been announced, but the company expects to sell close to 1,000 EV-neos in Japan and may likely sell them elsewhere depending on how these tests go. The base price for the EV-neo starts out at approximately $5,633 U.S. dollars.

Intel has released a few new ultra-low voltage processors that will likely find their way into this year’s gang of Ultrabooks for the 2011 holiday season.

The new processors listed by Intel are as follows:

• Core i7-2677M: 2 cores, 1.8 GHz (turbos to 2.9GHz), 4MB cache, 17 watts, $317
• Core i7-2637M: 2 cores, 1.7GHz (turbos to 2.8GHz), 4MB cache, 17 watts, $289
• Core i5-2557M: 2 cores, 1.7GHz (turbos to 2.7GHz), 3MB cache, 17 watts, $250

The Core i5-2557M has already found a home in the Asus UX21 that was modeled as an Ultrabook at Computex earlier this month.

Apple is also expected to refresh its line of MacBook Air laptops with this new family of chips. Apple’s current MacBook Air still use Core 2 Duo CPUs paired with Nvidia chipsets, as license agreements prevent the pairing of Nvidia technology with Intel’s current generation of processors. The integrated graphics of Intel’s Sandy Bridge chips, however, will likely be enough to satisfy Apple’s performance targets for the MacBook Air.

Yesterday we saw the launch of the world’s first Android 3.2 tablet, Huawei’s MediaPad. However, it seems it won’t be long until we see more tablets running 3.2, as the build is set for release this summer.

As far as we know Android 3.2 isn’t all that different to the just-released Android 3.1. When it popped up in Huawei’s MediaPad announcement yesterday, the company confirmed that it was basically Android 3.1 with a friendlier attitude towards 7-inch devices. Now, thanks to the folks over at ‘This is my next’, we know a little more about it.

According to the site, this version of Android will be released over the coming weeks. Not only that, but it will apparently be the last build prior to the release of Ice Cream Sandwich; TIMN cites three independent sources that say Android 3.2 will be the last Honeycomb point upgrade before Google releases 4.0 in Q4 of this year.

Android 3.2 doesn’t offer much in the way of features. This is my next reports that it does contain some bug fixes and improved hardware acceleration, but the biggest thing is that it will bring support for Qualcomm processors as well as Nvidia’s popular Tegra 2 chipset.

The Motorola Xoom will reportedly get Android 3.2 in the next few weeks, but Qualcomm support could mean that current 7-inchers (like the HTC Flyer) may also get the update. Fingers crossed!