Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everybody's talking about this week it's hackers the Craigslist killer and that's pretty much it let's begin with the gadget of the week Wednesday was Earth Day which led to a green frenzy that even seen it was not immune to check out our new green show on Sina TV but this week's gadget of the week is designed to show you that you can go green without having to go let's say hippy dippy wimpy for lack of a better phrase it's the cnet editors choice HP Firebird 803 with voodoo DNA it's got a gorgeous design lots of gaming firepower despite its lack of upgradeable graphics and its power consumption is about half that of the competition in some cases three times less so you can frag away on crisis and save the earth see good for everyone okay now for the news the one tech story everyone really is talking about this week the Craigslist killer police arrested Philip Markoff and charged him with murder armed robbery and kidnapping in the death of a woman who posted ads for erotic massage on craigslist he is also implicated in two other robberies now all that happened right on the heels of the usual craigslist prostitution stings and officials are now calling on craigslist again to work harder to police at sex posts craigslist has had this hands-off policy about this for years now in fact only last year did they start cooperating with police and requiring a credit card and a small fee for erotic services postings they donate that money to charity but many analysts think that the personals and sex posts account for most of craigslist revenue now say what you will about Craigslist moral duties here what's amazing to me is that from a business perspective craigslist would just let craigslist become such a CD neighborhood I for one I'm gonna go back to buying my gray market TVs in shady back alleys like I used to cuz craigslist gives me the creeps okay now on to way happier news not hackers are going crazy this week first came reports that hackers broke into the Pentagon's 300 billion dollar fighter jet program and may have even hacked the air force air traffic control system Pentagon officials said that no critical data was stolen about the Jets as if they would actually tell us that all signs by the way point to China officials also reported that they're looking for hackers in the Ukraine hoping to break up a massive botnet made up of 1.9 million infected pcs it's not configure which has its own 3 million pcs it's something else entirely super and to symantec researchers say they've uncovered the first serious Trojan horse aimed at infecting max so you Apple people not safe either ah frankly after all that I found it merely amusing that New Zealand hackers had taken down the country's msn homepage and replaced it with a picture of Bill Gates being hit in the face with a pie of course the photo probably dropped a payload on those machines and started a whole new botnet that's bound to destroy the world that's great luckily most of the internet wasn't as focused on all this bad news as I was this week because after all something truly newsworthy happened Oprah got on Twitter Oh Twitter you virus vector waiting to happen you and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Molly wood and thank you for watching shut up Dave Navarro's on Twitter