One Laptop Per Child on Friday refreshed its XO-1 laptop hardware, dumping chips from Advanced Micro Devices in favor of processors from Via Technologies. The nonprofit will now use Via’s C7-M processor instead of AMD’s Geode processor to power the laptop, OLPC officials said in a post on the...

As a second Twitter exploit began circulating on the micro-blogging site Sunday, a teen-ager from Brooklyn told CNET News he created both worms because he was bored and wanted to draw attention to the Twitter flaw. Much like Saturday’s StalkDaily worm, the “Mikeyy” worm posts unwanted...

NEW television buyers are being cheated into paying up to $600 for cables that are no better than $40 versions, claims consumer watchdog Choice. Tests of high-tech HDMI cables sold as accessories to plasma and LCD digital TVs with the promise of superior picture and sound quality found no technical...

Cleaner trash-to-energy tech hits the ground To many communities, trash-to-energy means burning garbage. But a handful of companies say they are close to bringing cleaner technology to market for making electricity or ethanol from waste. At a panel discussion on waste-to-energy at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen...

One of YouTube’s main attractions is the plethora of music videos available for instantaneous viewing — it’s a modern-day MTV without the reality shows and attempts to regain coolness. The problem is, those videos are locked under copyright and aren’t making money for the labels...